Power’s Irish Pub Gets Ready for St. Patrick’s Day
Clifton Park Pub Wears Green Year Round
It’s definitely the trend to push through the holidays as fast as possible. Before Halloween we saw our stores full of Santas and holiday lights, and now that Valentine’s Day has passed and heart-shaped boxes of candy are nearing 75% off, [...]
Samantha’s Café “Soup’r Delicious” Recipe Contest
Get Cookin’ to Benefit Local Charities
Do you have a special original recipe? Do you secretly wish you could get it published in a cookbook or have it featured in a local restaurant? Well here is your chance to be a published recipe author and have your recipe featured in a [...]
Chocolatey Winter Comfort Food (Video Recipe)
Easy Chocolate Treats That Will Warm You Up
Winter. Xmas. Valentine’s Day. You find a recurring theme here and it’s called chocolate. As addictive as any drug, chocolate is a most pleasurable confection. And with winter in full swing, what’s better than a cup of hot cocoa, Reese’s peanut butter cups, [...]
Romancing the Grape: The Capital Region Wine Festival at Proctors
Wine Tastings Galore, Just in Time for Valentine’s Day
The time of year is approaching when we celebrate love any way we can: with candles, romantic dinners, boxes of candy, teddy bears, and for some of us—wine! This Valentine’s weekend, you can embrace your love for wine [...]
Bagging the Greens: Do You Know What’s in that Bag of Salad?
Salad Bags and its Harmful Contaminants
Bagged salad sometimes seems like more of a threat than raw meat these days, with one produce outbreak after another grabbing the headlines. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say that the overall incidence of foodborne [...]
Trader Joe’s Coming to Albany
Domestic and Imported Foods Galore
Trader Joe’s announced on January 6th that they will be opening a new store at 79 Wolf Road in Albany. The grocery store chain is scheduled to open their 13,000 square foot location sometime during the second quarter of 2012, although no specific date has been set.
This [...]
Top My Pizza in Clifton Park, Review
A New Pizza Place Opens in Clifton Park
Out of the construction directly beside Moe’s Southwest Grill in Clifton Park, a new restaurant recently emerged: Top My Pizza. And while yet another pizza place isn’t quite what CP needs, this place is just a bit different from Pizza Hut, Venezia, [...]
How Capital Region Colleges Stack Up in the Vegan Food Department
Vegetarian and Vegan Options for College Students
Most of us have had our turn as college students, eating fast food and late night pizza delivery to survive cram sessions by night, and dashing through dining rooms grabbing whatever could tide us over while rushing to the [...]
Hattie’s: A Saratoga Institution
Fried Chicken, Mac and Cheese, Crab Slaw Salad…Hattie’s Has It
It doesn’t get anymore Southern…or Saratoga than Hattie’s. Finding Southern home cooking in Saratoga Springs would sound about as likely as finding snow in July, but the fried chicken, collard greens, peach cobbler and rest of the carefully chosen menu is as [...]
French Onion Soup (Video Recipe)
A French Onion Soup Recipe that’s Easier than You Think
The onion is your friend. Sure, it makes you cry, brings you to tears, but it’s so good for you, especially when used to make French Onion Soup.
Basically consisting of onion and beef broth, traditionally served with croutons and cheese as toppings, [...]
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