Muncie Food

Birds Smokehouse

2010-06-25T01:27:00.003-04:00

So I went to Birds Smokehouse BBQ in Daleville yesterday. Place was pretty empty but it was a hour or two from closing. I had been in once before and we ate family style (it was for my rehearsal dinner for my wedding and we had a lot of people). The food was pretty good the first time so I decided to see what it was like 2 years later. The food was okay. I had a 2 pulled meat combo for 9+ or

New Beginning???

2010-03-01T01:18:00.003-05:00

So as you can tell, it's been a minute since I've posted anything. Life has changed a great bit as far as cooking goes for me. I'm no longer working at Ruby Tuesdays (thank fucking goodness) and I'm in downtown Muncie at the Blue Bottle. School is well underway and I think it might be time to re-start this little project. More because I've grown a lot in my culinary understanding in the last

Story of a Restaurant Cook Pt. 2

2009-12-29T20:15:00.004-05:00

Egg white frittata with ch0rizo sausage, bacon, onion, cheese, and spicy hollandaise! So good.Hello again. I think the first installment was a good introduction to the feel I want the blog to have. So here we have part 2 of the story.Let me tell you about a friend of mine named Trevor. Now Trevor may be one of the coolest people that I've ever met. He's probably 4 or 5 years older than me,

After Christmas Sale

2009-12-26T22:57:00.002-05:00

Cassella's Kitchen - Holiday clean up sale! 50% to 75% off. Opens Tuesday at 10:00am.

Merry Christmas (eve)

2009-12-24T11:37:00.003-05:00

via the webMerry Christmas everyone. I probably won't post for a few days cause of the holidays so sorry for that. Maybe someone else will get to postin. be on the look out for pt. 2 of my story after Christmas! It only gets better

Story of a Restaurant Cook Pt. 1

2009-12-23T13:45:00.006-05:00

Photo: Alan SternbergI've know for a long time that something special happens when you start working in kitchens. You start to see shit that will forever stay with you and your personality. One of two things happens to you, you're either in a great mode or you're in the worst mode of your life. The latter usually equals me working harder but I know it makes me an asshole to my co-workers.

Real Content?

2009-12-23T01:52:00.001-05:00

Soon, I promise. I've got a few article ideas in the works.

Maggie's

2009-12-20T22:56:00.010-05:00

As a lover of mountains and skiing, I do have my woes about living in central Indiana. Usually, once a year, my friends and I make a trek up to northern Michigan to make fools of ourselves sliding down the slopes of what we here in the Midwest call mountains. The itineraries of these trips are always centered around two activities: skiing and eating. The first of these we are still working at,

Stroganoff

2009-12-20T21:22:00.004-05:00

Photo: Alan SternbergLike I said before, not much going on with me going out. I don't want that to stop posting though so once again I took a quick pic of my dinner. On the menu tonight, beef stroganoff. Stroganoff is something that I just recently learned to make while catering a dinner (had to figure it out). Anyways, it turned out great so it seemed like a good choice on a cold night.

Blue Bottle Experience

2009-12-20T03:54:00.003-05:00

Hey all, this is John I had the pleasure of eating at the Blue Bottle cafe/restaurant. I would like to give a small review over this place. Walking in to the eat in area a lot of eye-pleasing art is displayed along with very simple yet nice furniture. The menu at the Blue Bottle is very easy to read and figure out. The first thing one may notice that the prices are very reasonable for the

Pizza night

2009-12-19T21:26:00.004-05:00

Photo: Alan SternbergI love pizza night. Sorry I haven't been posting anything restaurant related but I have been hanging out at home for the past few days. Probably some more home food for a couple more days until I can get some of my fellow foodies to start posting.

Holiday Foods

2009-12-19T15:02:00.003-05:00

There's something about a snowy peaceful day that makes me think fresh fruit. I know that sounds strange but on a mourning like today I just want to run away from holiday fan fair and think summer. A fresh fruit tart or cooking a cobbler in a dutch oven over a camp fire. I the end I'm sure I'll be left cooking the normal stuff. Hot soup or chili or some Christmas cookies. I just want to be

Christmas Ideas

2009-12-18T23:36:00.003-05:00

So I spent most of my day looking for a job and pulling all my chef contacts but as I expected, no one's going to do anything before January 1. I stopped at my parents house and decided I'd make dinner. Barded stuffed chicken breast with crimini mushroom and smoked mozzarella in it and a mushroom broth. Definitely one of my favorites to cook at home. It got me thinking though, how easy would

Christmas Break

2009-12-18T00:57:00.004-05:00

Photo: Alan SternbergSchools wrapping up for the fall semester. I believe today was the last day of classes for us future chefs. Kind of a stressful semester with moving down to Patterson but a fun one (for me at least). Can't wait for spring semester to start.Cassella's Kitchen is having a big sale. Everything in the store is 33% to 50% off (excluding all clad, and le Creuset cast iron).

Plans

2009-12-17T13:04:00.005-05:00

Photo: Alan SternbergWell I've been talking and thinking a lot about this since I started it yesterday and I've come up with a ton of good ideas on where to go right off the bat. Some things might take a minute to get up but I definitely will be working hard to get this going.

Welcome

2009-12-16T14:50:00.001-05:00

Photo: Alan SternbergHello all. I've had this idea for a little while to start a food blog that everyone in the Muncie area could post on. Hopefully this will fulfill that idea. As a culinary student at Ivy Tech, it was also my intentions to keep people connected with what's going on at school and students involved in the local food scene. I hope to have people do cooking web videos, recipes,