It’s tough enough to put food on the table if you’re on an extremely limited budget, but whipping up an appetizing meal tends to be near impossible.
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Christ Church Episcopal’s 42nd Annual Lobster Fair runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 19 at the church at 2000 S. Maryland Parkway. Lobsters purchased in advance are $16 live, $18 steamed; orders are due by Oct. 18. Lobsters purchased at the fair — pending availability — will be $18 live, $20 steamed. The fair also will include a bake sale, used-book sale, raffles and live and silent auctions, and clam chowder, Mexican food, sourdough bread and beer and wine will be offered. For details or presales, go to www.LobsterFair.com or call 702-684-7746. …
In one exhibit hall, fondant-wrapped cakes depicting themes such as Tinkerbell, Halloween and surfing were on display, while ingredient suppliers showed products from gelato mix-ins to vivid food coloring agents in another in section.
Wine: Meiomi Pinot Noir
Mama Mia! Steve Epstein is looking for Mama Mancini’s Meatballs. Fellow readers Ken Wolt and Stephen Salchenberger reported finding them in the frozen section of separate outlets of Whole Foods Market, which has four stores in the valley.
Buddy V’s, from “Cake Boss” star Buddy Valastro, opened Monday, offering updated versions of Italian-American dishes, including Valastro family favorites.
The Culinary Village at the Life Is Beautiful festival during the last weekend of October will have 40 vendors. Which doesn’t have the ring of “logistical nightmare,” until you consider that they’ll be set up on vacant lots on either side of Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas.
Apple desserts and beverages are featured as harvests bring flavors of the season.
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.
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