Archive for the ‘Afternoon Food & Drink’ Category
Afternoon food & drink
Grilled cheese, ranch workout, menu planning, new Deschutes and some taste…
What’s for dinner:
- Eat Boise: Grilled Cheese and Avocado.
- Lava Lake Lamb: Ranch Workout.
- Random Teaspoon: Menu Planning Printables, Did I mention FREE?
- Another Pint Please…: Bacon, Goat Cheese, Bison & Poblano Sliders.
- Homesick Texan: Tacos al carbon.
- YumSugar: 10 Dishes to Get You Excited For Spring.
Happy hour specials:
- Beer & Whiskey Brothers: So if You Meet Me Have Some Courtesy, Have Some Sympathy, and Some Taste.
- Beernews: Deschutes Hop in the Dark Cascadian Dark Ale debuts this May.
- Mutineer Magazine: Dogfish Head Craft Brewery Announces New Brewmaster.
- Bike Beer BBQ: Southern Tier Jahva.

Afternoon food & drink
Cazba, back in the swing, 127 Club, buffalo to-go, Grocery Outlet and white Rhones…
What’s for dinner:
- Behind the Menu: East is East at Cazba.
- A Merry Mishap: back in the swing of things.
- Boise Weekly does Kay and Traci’s 127 Club: review 1, review 2.
- Buffalo a Go-Go. Back in the day, if you had a carnivorous hankerin’, you headed to the neighborhood butcher rather than toward the shrink-wrapped, processed options of the local supermarket. Cottonwood Grille has another solution.
- Grocery Outlet. The grocery store for people who love thrift stores. There’s a moment of redemption at the end of every Grocery Outlet trip.
- Boise Co-op: Shop For Good to benefit Agency for New Americans!
- Eat Boise: Homemade Buttermilk Biscuits.
- Lava Lake Lamb: Tim’s Favorite Cut.
Happy hour specials:
- White Rhone Varieties. The panel’s favorite other Rhone whites.
- Beer & Whiskey Brothers: I’m In Way Over My Head – This’ll Be FUN!
- Jules Zunich: Wine Wednesday ~ Malbec.
- Salmon River Brewery: A Beer for Every Taste Bud.
There is supposed to be a picture of some food-related item here — but you’ll notice that today there is not.
Afternoon food & drink
Menu planning, peanut cilantro Heaven, cherries and more Cinder…
What’s for dinner:
- Random Teaspoon: Menu Planning: Week of March 1.
- Eat Boise: Peanut Cilantro Heaven.
- Mundovore: Cherries and the Management of Fruit Trees.
- O Should Know: O, Saucey.
Happy hour specials:
- Beer & Whiskey Brothers: Goodbye not so old friend?
- Treasure Valley Food and Wine Blog: Cinder Wines Receives Award.

Pretty quiet day on the local food & drink front.
Afternoon food & drink
Animal welfare, Boise Fry Co., free cake, locavore love, salted mocha and whiskey…
What’s for dinner:
- Northwest Food News: Animal Welfare on the Farm.
- Behind the Menu: Boise Fry Company.
- Boise Foodie Guild: Pork Information and Recipes.
- Eat Boise: Free Cake Magically Appears at Our Door.
- Food Diva: Killing Me Softly.
- IdahoFoodies: Locavore love – Lots of cheese & the Olivator!
- Lava Lake Lamb: Photo of the Day.
- Random Teaspoon: Salted Mocha for One.
- V e g a n D a d: Crispy Cajun Tofu Sticks.
Happy hour specials:
- Beer & Whiskey Brothers: What Do You Think Of When You Think…Whiskey Drinker?
- Treasure Valley Food and Wine Blog: Boise is more progressive than Washington Farmers’ Markets.
- Happy Hour: Sparkling Sidecar.

...headed towards the grill.
Afternoon food & drink
Urban foraging, peanut sauce, Rudy’s triva, Cucina de Paolo, Sully’s, and Indian Creek’s new release…
What’s for dinner:
- Behind the Menu: Leah Clark Prefers Idaho.
- Urban Foraging Map. If you feel a nugget of righteous pride every time you pick up your CSA box from a local farmer, imagine how great you’ll feel carting home armloads of fresh fruit for free. No, we’re not talking dumpster diving, we’re talking urban foraging.
- Korovieva: Peanut Sauce. Ok, here is my peanut sauce recipe. I don’t measure anything, so just go by what tastes good to you. I eat this over noodles with any kinds of veggies, meats, or tofu thrown in.
- Boise Foodie Guild: Rudy’s Trivia.
- Idaho Statesman: Cucina di Paolo accents casual cafe cuisine with Italian.
- Eat Boise: Pepitas, Cranberries and Almonds.
- Lava Lake Lamb: Chef Profile: Don.
- Idaho Press-Tribune: Sully’s Pub and Grill sets unique dining atmosphere.
- Homesick Texan: Chipotle macaroni and cheese with bacon.
Happy hour specials:
- Indian Creek Winery: 2009 Muscat Canelli.
- Spring Seasonals: Pale Ales. A number of spring seasonal brews have already hit Boise, and I’m ready for anything that makes me think of spring.
- Beer & Whiskey Brothers: FREAKY FRIDAY! Whatcha Drinkin?
- Uncle Boise: The Reef – Tiki Heaven in the Desert.
- Payette Brewing Co.: IPA’s, Brown’s and More.
- beertography: Stone Skips Across the Pond.
- Bike Beer BBQ: Samuel Adams Noble Pils And Pizza.
- The Pour: The Argument for Boxed Wine. The perception that boxed wine is poor quality might be changing.
- Mutineer Magazine: California Cracks Down on “Rectification” of Spirits.

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Afternoon food & drink
Get the grill out, naked asparagus, making a Reuben and Flatbread Community Oven expands…
What’s for dinner:
- Boise Foodie Guild: First Grilling For 2010.
- Eat Boise: Naked Asparagus.
- Gandolfo’s Deli: How to Make a Reuben.
- John Berryhill’s Blog: Talking…
- Flatbread Community Oven to open another Boise location. Flatbread Community Oven is set to open a 2,900-square foot pizzeria and wine bar March 8 at 615 W. Main, formerly home to Zutto Japanese Restaurant.
Happy hour specials:
- Beer & Whiskey Brothers: Drinking at the Super 8–The Flagging Epilogue.
- Treasure Valley Food and Wine Blog: Vale Wine Company Is Moving.
- Salmon River Brewery: Happy Hour at SRB.
- Idaho Wine Industry Sees Slight Growth. It has been a rough few years for the wine industry especially when restaurants go under.
- Beer: A Lesson in Economics. Is it possible that the Canadian fuzz are part of a plot to help keep breweries afloat in these tough economic times?

Afternoon food & drink
Chef Hickman, CSAs in Boise, Shige’s Red Carpet, spilled milk, Darla’s Deli and pineapple & maple toddy…
What’s for dinner:
- Behind the Menu: An Interview with Chef Vern Hickman.
- Mundovore: Local, Awesome CSAs in Garden City and Boise.
- Northwest Food News: Shige’s Red Carpet Fine Dining on the Terrace, Boise.
- Eat Boise: Boise Cream Pie.
- Lava Lake Lamb: Olympics!
- ChowderBlog: I am the Lucky Drive Thru Man. Some may think it’s a bad idea to hit up fast food during the lunch rush, but it presents you with the possibilities of making it out of the drive thru with some extra food from the order in front or behind you. Well, maybe I’m just lucky.
- DOWNBOI: Spilled Milk at the Co-Op.
- FOX 12’s Nate Kuester & 670 KBOI’s Nate Shelman In The ‘Nate Bowl’. It was the greatest pancake eating in the history of ‘Nate-kind,’ and it was all for charity.
- Boise Weekly does Darla’s Deli — review 1, review 2.
- Idaho researcher examines differences in the way lean and overweight people eat. If the food is there, obese and overweight people will eat more of it than their lean counterparts, new studies at Idaho State University suggest.
- 101 Cookbooks: Simple Farro & Bean Stew.
- Coconut & Lime: Broccoli-Cauliflower Cheddar Soup.
- Serious Heat: Hot & Sour Soup, My Spicy Comfort Food.
Happy hour specials:
- Beer & Whiskey Brothers: Drinking in the Super 8…Round 3.
- boise happy hours: stay tuned…
- Indian Creek Winery: Signs of Spring.
- Boise Weekly: An Incredible Red Wine: 2007 Le Clos du Caillou Cuvee Unique.
- Sherry: Wine’s Best-Kept Secret?
- Happy Hour: Hot Rum, Pineapple, and Maple Toddy.

Afternoon food & drink
Cottonwood Grille, driven to sustain, panko shrimp, sustainable seafood and 11 essential Irish toasts…
What’s for dinner:
- Behind the Menu: The Cottonwood Grille: Ten Years Local.
- Boise Co-op: Driven to Sustain…A World-Record Breaking Journey for Sustainability.
- Boise Foodie Guild: Dinner With Geno!
- Eat Boise: Panko Shrimp.
- Food Diva: Green Smoothie Sensation.
- ChowderBlog: Five Guys… WHAT?!
- IdahoFoodies: Gnocchi Part III… & Egg Noodles & Spaetzle.
- Mundovore: Boise’s Urban Foods Map.
- Northwest Food News: Sustainable Seafood in the Northwest.
- Fatfree Vegan Kitchen: Banana-Maple Oatmeal Cookies.
- V e g a n D a d: Super Easy Southern Tofu.
- YumSugar: Fast & Easy Dinner: Fish Tostadas With Chili Lime Cream.
- Educating Pirates: How Lobster Sex on NPR Almost Ruined My Cred. My NPR time came in the mornings when I would arrive at my kitchen and start prepping. I would blast the little black boom box that every kitchen has.
Happy hour specials:
- Beer & Whiskey Brothers: The Long, Dry Weekend.
- Another Pint Please…: And then there were 3…
- Beernews: A double doozy for Deschutes Brewery: new airport location on hold, lawsuit.
- Boozin’ Blog: 11 Essential Irish Toast.
- Mutineer Magazine: Support Haiti: Drink [Haitian] Rum.
- Cocktail Confidential: Ice, Ice, Baby.










