Travel Turtle

The Wildflower Cafe in Clearwater, Florida

If your travels ever take you to Clearwater, Florida (which I would highly recommend they do because the Gulf Coast Beaches in Florida are beautiful!) please take the time to stop at the Wildflower Cafe. Their website title says “Exceptional Food” and I wholeheartedly agree. I went to an event once and someone brought a lemon cake from that cafe. This was years ago. It took me almost a year to stop thinking about it every day. I think now I think about this cake once a week. It was so dense, yet so light. It was soft, with sugar crystals that added more than just a textural difference, it mixed with the cake and frosting flavors to create the perfect cake experience.

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{Image from Wildflower Cafe}

I’d love to hear about more must-eat places in other cities and towns. If you have any, please share in the comments or send me an email.

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Food Fun

I saw this on 28 cooks and wanted to do it. From the 28 cooks blog:

So I saw this on Very Good Taste and thought it looked like fun, so I’m playing a long. It’s a list of 100 food items that this blogger feels should be eaten by everyone. I was surprised by how much I’ve eaten off of this list.

If you’d like to play along:
1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold or Italicize all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Optional extra: Post a comment at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.

I’d like to add that if you do decide to do it either post a comment here as well linking to your post, or just comment with your answers.

Here’s my results:

Just a note, I didn’t cross out any items I wouldn’t consider eating. Since I’m not sure what some of the items are, I didn’t want to cross them off.

The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred:

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

More information:

The good folks over at Food Proof have gone through this list and described each of these items! Yay. I then realized that item #2, Nettle Tea, is actually something I’ve never tried. For some reason I thought it said Nestle Tea. Anyway, I’m going to keep it bolded on the list so these last two statements make sense.

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4 Things

1. I love waffles, especially homemade ones. But, if I can’t have them, Strawberry Eggos aren’t too bad. These are probably going to be my breakfast for the next 5 days.

2. Here’s a glimpse into a project I’m working on. I’m trying to keep photos of the process, we’ll see how that goes. I’m in love with how cute the birds are, though.

3. A portion of a painting I have hanging on the wall I look at while I’m on my computer. My husband picked it up in Ecuador.

4. Felt: An extreme close-up of another project I’m working on. This one might never see the light of day. I’m having the hardest time finding a very specific tool to finish the project and I don’t think that tool exists. For some reason photoshop refused to let me scale this picture down, so I decided to keep it an extreme close-up.

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