Apple desserts and beverages are featured as harvests bring flavors of the season.
Food
When it comes to beers in National Hockey League arenas across Canada, the big guys are Molson Coors Brewing and Labatt Brewing Co. But craft beers are slowly muscling their way into NHL arenas and other major-league sports venues as stadiums understand that the microbrew companies are offering a tasty, diversified product that fans desire.
Interested in knowing what you should eat to minimize your risk of breast cancer and other types of cancer? It’s simple — and it’s something you’ve heard many times before.
For Pauline Eikel, who’s looking for a peanut-flour peanut butter that has half the calories of regular peanut butter and that she found at Smith’s, readers have two suggestions.
Plaka opened in August in the former location of Opa. “We took it, renovated it, spent a lot of money and made a nice place,” said co-owner Angelo Giouzelis, who used to have the Golden Greek near Maryland Parkway and Sahara Avenue. Giouzelis said he’s been in Las Vegas for “many years,” and was at Caesars Palace for 30 years as maitre d’.
It’s bad enough that back-to-school comes in June, and Halloween arrives in July. And of course we all know Christmas begins in September. But even the craft beer industry is caving to seasonal creep. For this year, the beer drinker’s harbinger of autumn — pumpkin ales — apparently couldn’t hold off until the pumpkins actually ripened.
Two readers responded to a query from Loisanne Madden, who is looking for a recipe from the Chicago Sun-Times for a fruitcake made with graham crackers but no flour.
Daisho Sushi opened in September, serving nigiri sushi, a wide variety of rolls, rice and noodles, salads and appetizers including Hawaiian-style poke, tempuras and seafood.
Burger King introduced a new crinkle-cut french fry on Tuesday that it says has about 20 percent fewer calories than its regular fries.
The owners of the Coffee Cup Cafe in Boulder City were aware that reviewers didn’t think the coffee they served measured up to the quality of their food. When it was time for a change, they switched to Colorado River Coffee Roasters, just across town.
Pappardelle — a pasta cut of long, broad, silky noodles that are particularly effective vehicles for velvety sauces — is a favorite of mine, and I’m clearly not alone. I received numerous responses to a query from Bob Collins of Fort Mohave, Ariz., who’s looking for fresh or dried pappardelle.
Rocco’s, owned by Rocco Crea, opened on Rainbow Boulevard about a year ago; a location at 10860 W. Charleston Blvd. has been in business for 12 years.
Walleye, also known as walleyed pike, pickerel, dore in French, or dory, is one of those wonderful freshwater fish found throughout the Great Lakes and other parts of the northern United States and parts of Canada. A relative of perch (personally, I’m partial to the tiny Lake Erie perch), it’s mild and sweet, can be prepared a variety of ways — and is pretty rare in Southern Nevada.
The difference between an apple and an orange? How about the difference between an apple and an apple? This seemingly straightforward, most American of fruits actually is possessed of complexities that can make one variety very different from another.
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