Mema's Alaskan tacos

In Tampa on a quickie honeymoon we have already feasted at Busch Gardens with the All-You-Care-to-Eat pass. But our late night snack was Mema's. It was so good. I had a tofu taco, gator rsvp and chicken tamale. Everything was good, even the chips and salsa. They serve their chips with regular tomato salsa and salsa verde, ny favorite. It was a little spicy for me but still delicious.
The tamale was good, they are homemade. The tacos were good too. They are open til 1am sunday night, not sure how late the other nights of the week. Here is the link to their site.
http://www.memasalaskantacos.com/

Do it when you are in Tampa/Ybor

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Red Robin

This never posted...
You have to sing the jingle when you read the title. "Red Robin"
Los Bastardos Magnificos was recording in Tampa a week ago and we went to eat at Red Robin. It was my first time. It was good. I always thought it was like a fast food place. But it's actually more like a TGI Friday or Chilis. Enough talk here are the photos.
Non-alcoholic fruity beverages with real fruit = wonderful.
I ordered a salad (I'm getting married soon) with deep fried jalapenos. Woohee those things were hot.

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breakfast griddle heaven

Last night I decided to make pancakes and waffles for dinner. This may explain my current headache this morning.
I used recipes from allrecipes.com. they were slightly different measurements of the same ingredients, with the exception of vanilla extract only in the waffles. Oh yea and as a special touch, I added heath bar toffee candy pieces to a few waffles. They were pretty delicious.

Ok food porn.

BTW, I'm the worst pancake flipper

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Random food pictures from all around

Ok, since I am not as serious a food blogger as some others, I am a huge slacker when it comes to posts. I just enjoy eating and taking pictures of food, my friend suggested we start a food blog and so she created it, named it imaginari-yum and I became the sole blogger. She's way more of a slacker than I am ;)

So here are some random photos of food that I have eaten over the past few months. I will try to write where it was from if I remember.
There may be some repeats from previous blogs.

Oh and Happy New year, this is my first post of 2011!

Lester's - David special

there's no mistaking the Flanigan's shenanigan

A Bad ass veggie burger pita from Julio's Natural Foods on Miami Gardens Drive

The have great options
 http://www.juliosnaturalfoods.com/

a very unhealthy tres leches

I think this was for father's day and it was possibly from Fresh Market, I don't remember.

assortment of sauces at Baja Fresh on Miracle Mile. This was on my first trip to look at wedding dresses.

Baja Fresh taco platter

Baja Fresh- Imaginari-yum founder Lee eating a veggie burrito.

David and I on a trip to Orlando, at a terrible all-you-can-eat.

Yea I totally got a baby octopus >:P

one of my favorite desserts. Mango sticky rice from Heart Rock Sushi

http://www.heartrocksushi.com/

Chocolate Chip cookies from Webermans Traditional Foods. Friend of the family.

Oh yea it's nice to have the hook up, excessive amounts of chocolate chip cookies every couple months. :)

http://www.webermanfoods.com/

Siciliano's chocolate dipped frozen custard

If you like ice cream at all, please visit this place before you die.
yelper

On a zilla day. Croque Madame at La Provence.

 Not as good as La Baguette was, but they have different menu items and it's still pretty good French food.
La Provence

I think this was from News Cafe but I can't remember. 2 poached eggs on a french roll. oh yea runny and delicious.

I think that will do it for now.

I will try to do some more random food posts until all my photos are posted, or at least most of them are.
Now I'm hungry. Could really go for a chocolate dipped soft serve cone.

Toffee Blondies

Just made these Toffee Blondies tonight. It's a super easy recipe.
I just wanted to use my retro camera ;)

They are pretty dense and rich.

Here is the recipe.

8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter melted
1 cup packed light brown sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour (spooned and leveled)
1 cup toffee candy bits

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line bottom and sides of an 8-inch square baking pan with aluminum foil, leaving a 2-inch overhang on two sides. Set pan aside.

2. With an electric mixer, beat butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, vanilla and salt. With mixer on low speed, add flour and beat just until combined. Fold in toffee bits by hand.

3. Using a rubber spatula, spread batter evenly in prepared pan. Bake until golden and a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 30 to 35 minutes. Remove from oven; cool completely in pan on a wire rack.

4. Using foil overhang, lift cake from pan. Peel off foil and discard. With a serrated knife, cut into 16 squares (4 rows by 4 rows).

OK, now, I just copied this word for word from the book I used. You don't have to copy exactly, like any recipe you can adjust a few things. I used Heath toffee candy bits with mild chocolate. I did NOT use an electric mixer because when David and I finally moved and I got my hand mixer out of storage, I turned it on and it made a sound but nothing spun. So that went in the trash. My kitchenaid mixer is too big for my house so it's at my moms. :( I used some good old fashioned man power.

I hope to post more recipes, I'm trying to get back into the swing of baking more regularly again.

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BTTR week Three and four

Early Tues last week I texted my other half asking if we could possibly go to the BTTR later to get a little something to eat. Like maybe one thing (I didn't feel like cooking). Of course he agreed "yea we can pick up something and bring it home."

Well I ended up picking it all up alone because he wasn't feeling well. The place was packed this time. I scoured each truck to see what collection wanted to make. I ended up with smorgasbord of food to bring home. While I was picking up food, I munched on a Taco Playero from Montaco. It was good, a perfect little starter snack. I love salsa verde too.My friend got the taco with the green tortilla. He also got the chicken sandwich from The Rolling Stove. He said it was delicious. Slow Food Truck had the cupcakes.
We ended up getting:
CheeseMe: bowl of chili
Nacho Mama's: Chicken nachos
Slow Food Truck: short rib sandwich
The Rolling Stove: Cap't Crunch crusted chicken tenders
Caza Crepes: sugar crepe.

This past Tues David and I went together and ate...
Nacho Mama's: Taco Fries
MexZican Gourmet: Legacy Taco w/ brisket, chorizo and chicharron. Oh man it was interesting, crunchy chicharrones and delicious.
CheeseMe: short rib again.. always delicious.
Our friend picked up a kibbeh wrap from a new truck that served Mediterranean food as well as some Miami style flair Cuban food.
There isn't a picture of the short rib.

Sorry this is a very uninformative post. I'm doing a million things right now and it took me all day to upload this because blogger droid ap wouldn't load from my phone all day.

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