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The Best Food Concessions: Where to Find Them & What to Try

The Best Food Concessions in the USA There are many great festival food concessions across the United States, but some of the most popular and well-known include: Kona Ice: a shaved ice truck and trailer that serves a variety of flavors. Known for its tropical-themed decor. The Corn Roaster: Is a concession stand that serves freshly roasted sweet corn on the cob. The Lemonade Stand: a stand that serves a variety of lemonade flavors and it is known for its colorful decor. The Funnel Cake Truck: a food truck that serves freshly made funnel cakes with a variety and lots of toppings. The Grilled Cheese Truck: Is a food truck that serves gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches. The Ice Cream Truck: Is a truck that serves a variety of ice cream and frozen treats. The BBQ Stand: a stand that serves barbecue items such as brisket, pulled pork, and ribs. The Waffle Cone Stand: a stand that serves freshly made waffle cones filled with ice cream and toppings. The Fryer: A stand that serves a variety of fried foods such as French fries, fried pickles, and fried Oreos. It's worth noting that the best festival food concessionaires are those that have a great quality food. they also have good customer service, a variety of options and a great presentation. ********************************************************************** Concession Links Concessions and How Not to Get Booked Corndogs

By |2024-02-24T16:09:41+00:00January 18th, 2023|Fair Food, Food, Fruit, Lemonade|0 Comments
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Three Easy Chocolate Covered Strawberry Hacks

Kent Whitaker, Author of this Chocolate Covered Strawberry Post, also known as “The Deck Chef,” is an award-winning culinary writer and cookbook author. He’s also penned Young Reader, NASCAR and History titles. The former winner of the Emeril Live Food Network Barbecue Contest also covers football, motorsports, and bass fishing. Kent currently lives in East Tennessee with his wife, son, and a couple of dogs that love when he fires up the smoker or grill. You can reach out to Kent at: The Deck Chef, on Facebook, or Instagram, and Twitter. Chocolate-covered strawberries and Valentine's day go together! The combination of flavor, texture, and sweetness make for a perfect treat. It’s decadent enough to satisfy a craving and yet we can munch down on them without worrying about calories from the chocolate… because calories don’t count on February 14th! Sadly, the calories still count, but why not enjoy the moment! The great thing is that you can make these on your own as a surprise for a loved one. Or, you can make them as a couple, and the recipe can be kid-friendly once the chocolate is melted. Don’t Stress about Melting Chocolate First, don’t worry about melting chocolate. Simply follow the directions on the packaging! Just make sure you purchase melting chocolate for making candy. The package will be marked and in the baking section of your grocery store. Sometimes it’s called “bark” chocolate. If you are comfortable using a double boiler, then go that route. If not, almost every package has directions for using a microwave. And, if you don’t want to melt chocolate and let it re-harden, a simple squeeze bottle chocolate drizzle never made anyone mad! Prep the Strawberries Here’s the secret to making chocolate covered strawberries and it’s not the chocolate! It is the strawberries! To be exact – it is the moisture in the strawberries! People may think they did something wrong with melting chocolate because it does not stick to the strawberry! That may be because the strawberries are moist or wet. Make sure when you rinse and remove excess stems that you allow them to completely dry. And, avoid slicing the strawberries. You want a dry, whole strawberry. One note – leave some of the green at the top of the strawberry, but remove any excess or browned pieces. The Process – Simple! Ok, you have your clean and dry strawberries and some melted chocolate. You also have your sprinkles ready… what’s next? Here’s the trick! [...]

By |2024-01-10T04:22:40+00:00January 27th, 2021|Valentine Day, Fruit, Recipe|0 Comments
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Three Spring & Summer Grilled Fruit Hacks!

By Kent Whitaker - Three Amazing Grilled Fruit Hacks for Spring and Summer Nothing seems to beat the wide variety of fruit that comes into markets during Spring. Everything from fresh picked strawberries to apricots and even Kiwi! Then, the flavors keep coming as peaches, oranges and even bananas at their peak flood into grocery stores and produce stands. So, it stands to reason that grilling gurus across the land should add some of these tasty fruit flavors to our recipe collection! It could be a simple as a quick-and-easy fruit flavored infused sauce to grilling a couple of slices of your favorite fruit. Here’s three spring & summer grilled fruit hacks~ Grilled Coconut Rum Bananas I have a buddy that’s a rum expert!  He knows classic rums, white, dark, brands, history and even enjoys the new fruit flavored rums that are gaining in popularity. He suggested using some coconut flavored rum for a Caribbean inspired recipe! This recipe hack is inspired from Cuban and Caribbean style grilled plantains. Slice the banana lengthwise and keep them in their peals, brush with melted butter or use butter flavored non-stick spray. In a small bowl, combine some coconut rum, melted butter and little bit of honey. Grill the sliced banana – in their peels – over medium high heat. Fee free to use foil or a grilling griddle. The banana will start to cook and pull away from the peel around the edges. Baste evenly with your rum mixture. Remove from the peel and serve with your favorite ice cream topped with toasted coconut shavings. Grilled Fruit Cobbler Chances are that you probably have a favorite cobbler recipe. Don’t worry if it’s a quick-and-easy recipe or one that requires more than just dumping a few ingredients in a baking dish. Both will work on a covered grill. Basically, all you’re doing is using your covered grill like an oven. You can use foil pans, cake pans or even cast iron – but, I would avoid using glass baking dishes! Make your recipe, cover with foil, cook on an upper rack in a covered grill, and rotate the pan as needed to ensure even cooking. The last few minutes you can uncover, baste the crust with butter and sprinkle with sugar and allow the edges to become golden brown. Grilled Peaches and Cream I live in East Tennessee just a few feet away from Georgia, Alabama and a day drive through the mountains to South Carolina. Why am I telling [...]

By |2024-01-12T00:17:55+00:00March 11th, 2018|Fruits, Fruit, Grilling|0 Comments
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Lemonade

Lemonade in the USA and Canada is a uncarbonated drink, basically made from squeezed lemon juice, water and sugar. It could have artificial sweetener instead of sugar. Then there is alcholic lemonade which also popular is sweetened artificially. There are a lot of variants in lemonade of the fruit nature. These usually consist of raspberries, grapefruit, grapes, red cherry, cranberries, strawberris and grenadine ( Wikipedia - describes grenadine -The Mott's brand "Rose's", by far the most common grenadine brand in the United States, [3] is presently formulated using (in order of concentration): high fructose corn syrup, water, citric acid, sodium citrate, sodium benzoate, FD&C Red #40, natural and artificial flavors, and FD&C Blue #1.[4]. There are all kinds of variations on lemonade as might be expected, it depends to what country you are referring. There are health benefits to Lemons Lemons have natural healing power. Here is a website that offers 15 Hidden Health Secrets of Lemons. Some of which are abolishing acne, cankor sore relief, curing corns and callus (something my runners feet could use help with), fight fatigue, healing hypertension, pulverize pain, varicose veins and more. Take a look at that article above.    Anyway adding sugar to your lemon mixture may take away some of the benefits of lemons or at least reduce the benefits of them. Here are -

By |2017-06-29T21:46:13+00:00May 19th, 2014|Fruit, Lemonade, Sugar|0 Comments
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Eating on the Wild Side

We have been breeding the nutrition out of our food for a long time. Corn in the super market is ultra sweet. Most of our food is ultra sweet. This is why we have a nation of 80% pre diabetics or diabetics. We have taken the phytonutrients out of our food. Some foods in the store have 10 to twenty times more nutrients then others. Purple, red blue or black foods have a lot of nutrients. Red berries, blueberries, purple carrots, purple potatoes are better for us have and are rich in anthocyanins. Anthocyanins, can help control and get rid of a lot of our modern diseases. The artichoke is one of the most nutritious foods in the supermarket. It is very rich in antioxidants. The shallot is one of most nutritious foods. Garlic is a potent cancer fighting vegetables. You need to crush the garlic or chop it and let it set for ten minutes so the two ingredients can combine to make allicin, a potent cancer fighting compound. Tomatoes become much richer in lycopene the longer you cook it. You should eat three to four servings from the cabbage (horseradish, or kale) family a week. They can reduce cancer significantly. There are a lot of great tips about eating nutritiously in this book Eating on the Wild Side by Jo Robinson. Carrots were originally, purple, red or sometimes yellow. Four hundred years ago a red carrot was crossed with a yellow carrot to come up with orange carrots. We now know the original purple carrots have sixteen times more nutrients then the orange carrots in the store. Purple carrots can be found in a seed catalog now. Baby carrots - the orange ones were made to save the big orange carrots leftovers. The outer skin of the carrot is the most nutritious, don't peel your carrots. The carrot is less nutritious towards the center of the carrot. Food vendors concessionaires should take a look at this book. Every year there is a wealth of new "foods" at the county and state fairs. It also seems like there is a race to develop good tasting nutrition less foods to sell. Here is a challenge to you food vendors. Can you make a good tasting food that is high in nutrition? The public is becoming more and more aware of nutrition. Listen to this podcast on Science Friday from the author of Eating on the Wild Side nEating on the Wild Side, author Jo Robinson reveals how [...]

By |2017-07-03T01:32:21+00:00February 9th, 2014|Fair Food, Food, Fruit|0 Comments
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The Watermelon Contest Craze: Get Your Slice of Fun

Slices of cold Watermelon are YUMMY Watermelon Contests Well, to have a simple one, you need watermelon of course, scales that measure ounces and one bowl for each contestant, weigh the watermelon slices and tag each with a little flag and weight. Then, after each contestant eats the Watermelon Contest, well, simply add up what they have eaten. To Win at a Watermelon Contest, the contestant needs to - Step 1   Develop a technique. The easiest way is also the messiest with no utensils, but there are still possibilities for success using a fork or spoon. Step 2  Swallow the seeds or chew them with your bite of watermelon. Spitting the seeds will cut into your eating time. Step 3  Make sure your hair is pulled back out of your face, if applicable. You don't want to be distracted from the task at hand. Step 4  Take lots of small bites you can swallow almost whole. Chewing is another factor that will hurt your eating time. Step 5  Eat fast and furious. At most contests, the competition is cutthroat. Step 6   Have fun and worry about the mess later. **************** [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_4Iq7iHlBc Picking the world's largest Watermelon This is a video from the summer of 2005 at the Ivan Bright family near Hope, Arkansas. Two Watermelon Contest are picked from the field. The first ends up on the ground in pieces. The second weighs in as  ...well, watch the video ******************* Watermelon Pie - OF course, there is such a thing as Watermelon Pie!!! INGREDIENTS * 1 (3 ounces) package watermelon-flavored gelatin * 1/4 cup water * 1 (12 ounces) container frozen whipped topping, thawed * 2 cups watermelon * 1 (9 inch) prepared graham cracker crust DIRECTIONS 1. Mix the Watermelon Contest gelatin and water. Fold the gelatin mixture into the dessert topping. Add cut watermelon. 2. Pour mixture into graham cracker crust. Cool in refrigerator for about 3 hours. *************************************************************** More about Watermelon Watermelon Recipes - Watermelon is a fruit that is terrific all by itself. You've surely sat outside on a warm summer night, eating watermelon slices and maybe even engaging in ... Watermelon Carving - Creating a watermelon carving can be fun. Wonderful examples of what you can do with a watermelon... ***************************************************************

By |2024-03-03T15:27:33+00:00June 2nd, 2010|Contests, Food, Fruit, Watermelon|1 Comment
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