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Tweet The parade of accolades for Village Shops restaurants continues. Cafe Provence, which last month received a Top Restaurant rating from Zagat, has been named to OpenTable’s Diner’s Choice Top 100 Restaurants list. The Capital Grille on the Plaza was the only other Kansas City area restaurant to make the list. Cafe Provence’s neighbor across [...]
Tweet By Julia Westhoff It’s officially the Christmas season, and for me that means binging on treats that are only available this time of year. Here are a few favorites: Eggnog: The day after Thanksgiving I run to the Hen House for that first carton of eggnog. I put it in my coffee every morning [...]
Tweet By Julia Westhoff My grandmother, Doris Sanchez, is a Romanian Jew who married a Mexican Catholic and raised an American son who was at various points a Southern Baptist and a Midwestern Congregationalist. Did you catch all that? Me neither. The point is that holidays at our house were always a bit of a [...]
Tweet By Julia Westhoff Today marks one of my favorite food days of the whole year. As much as I love Thanksgiving dinner, the leftovers are what really do it for me. Forget the formality of tablecloths and silver and give me a pyrex container of cold leftovers. Even better, grab a couple slices of [...]
Tweet By Julia Westhoff Jay and I have several friends whose families celebrate Turkey Day in a bit of a contrarian way: They go out. When I first heard that some folks eschew the traditional dinner, I thought it was kind of crazy. You can’t go out for Thanksgiving dinner. That’s un-American! (Right?) But eventually [...]
Tweet Cafe Provence isn’t the only Village Shops’ restaurant getting national attention this month. OpenTable, the popular online restaurant reservation and review service, this week released its list of restaurants serving the Best American Cuisine, based on more than five million review submitted by OpenTable diners. Among the top 100 in the United States: Story. [...]
Tweet A Prairie Village fine-dinery has found its way onto an elite list of national restaurants. Zagat Guide this month released its annual Top American Restaurants Survey, featuring the renowned ratings guide’s top food-rated restaurants in the country’s 46 largest markets. For the Kansas City metro, Zagat tapped the Village Shops’ Cafe Provence. It’s an [...]
Tweet By Julia Westhoff I’d never been a huge fan of rice (it’s a texture thing), but lately I can’t stop making it. I’ve been trying out recipes for bibimbap, a Korean word that literally means “mixed rice.” Korean food is a recent favorite in our household (H/T to friends Emily and Kyle of [...]
Tweet This weekend the mister and I are indulging in a little R & R, and we couldn’t be more ready. Between two kids and three jobs our daily interactions rarely get past who’s picking up the girls and whose turn it is to empty the dishwasher. Luckily, we have amazing friends and relatives who will [...]
Tweet By Julia Westhoff Many of the men I know are great at cooking one or two things. I’ve mentioned that my dad makes a mean meatloaf. My father-in-law is a master of both BBQ and stir-fry. And my husband has one truly incredible dish that contains peanut butter, cream of coconut and chicken. In [...]
Tweet By Julia Westhoff The mister and I are sometimes lucky enough to score an invite to a meal cooked by the amazing Jeff Akin (one of the geniuses behind feedmekc.com). The food is always outstanding, and I always leave with new ideas for the kitchen. We’ve been friends with Chef Jeff for a long time now (Jay and [...]
Tweet Residents of the Normandy Square neighborhood in Prairie Village completed a successful food drive for Harvesters, collecting 360 pounds of canned goods – the equivalent of more than 250 meals. This was the second year of what residents hope will become an annual event. “The timing of the food drive is perfect,” said resident [...]
Tweet It’s time for my yearly Pumpkin Extravaganza, when everything I eat contains pumpkin and/or nutmeg and/or candy corn. Still, I always have to laugh at beverages that imply pumpkin is an actual ingredient – pumpkin lattes, pumpkin beer, pumpkin vodka (it probably exists, right?), etc… Obviously none of these beverages include actual pumpkin – [...]
Tweet By Julia Westhoff When I picture myself in 40 years, the image always looks something like this: art classes at JCCC, long walks holding hands with the mister (who cares that we hate holding hands? Our future selves will love it!), and eating lunch at Andre’s. Andre’s. It was one of the first places [...]
Tweet By Julia Westhoff One of my favorite things to do in the fall is to build a bonfire. I love the crackling logs and the smell of smoke. I love the beauty of the autumn leaves, and singing campfire songs. But most of all, I love roasting marshmallows. I guess it’s the 9-year-old in [...]
Tweet By Julia Westhoff The year was 2004. The food was meatloaf. My husband (then boyfriend) was obsessed with finding the perfect recipe. Our tiny apartment in Lawrence was forever smelling of a mixture of ground beef, onions, and ketchup. Sexy, no? There were only two of us then, and it seemed there was always [...]
Tweet The Mission Arts & Eats Festival kicks off tonight in the area around the Sylvester Powell Jr. Community Center near Martway and Beverly. The festival includes Mission’s state championship BBQ Contest, Battle of the Brisket 2012, as well as food vendors, arts and crafts vendors and children’s art activities. The festival runs from 4 [...]
Tweet By Julia Westhoff One of my favorite things on earth is our monthly Dinner for 10. We make it easy on ourselves by having the host cook the main dish while the rest of us bring sides, drinks, or desserts. Since there are 11 kids between 5 familes, there’s usually a tot or two [...]
Tweet Two Northeast Johnson County restaurants were cited for health code violations during August inspections by the Kansas Department of Agriculture. Mission Hills Country Club in Mission Hills and Tatsu’s French Restaurant in Prairie Village were cited for “critical” violations. Mission Hills Country Club was cited for milk and cream cheese stored at improper temperatures [...]
Tweet By Julia Westhoff I saw a recipe that called for Milk Jam Creme Fraiche in this month’s Bon Apetit, and I was intrigued. For me milk jam was up there with hoop skirts and mince meat – I think I may have read about them in Tom Sawyer, but I have no real concept [...]
Tweet By Julia Westhoff I recently hosted a candy bar taste-off as part of a work retreat. There were some great options: Whatchamacalits, Toblerone, Cadbury Fruit and Nut bars, and the winner – Dark Chocolate Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. But my favorite was the Twix Bar. Apparently it had been too long since I’d sampled [...]
Tweet By Julia Westhoff I think I’ve mentioned before that I have a serious problem with buying too much fruit. In spite of the fact that our average daily smoothie consumption could feed a family of 12, I still find myself with rotting fruit in the fridge. I just can’t help myself when I peruse [...]
Tweet A controversial zoning decision on a building in the Ranchmart North shopping center near 95th Street and Mission Road will be decided October 15. The Leawood City Council this week postponed its final action on the zoning question and the final plan for a proposed Slab N Pickle barbecue restaurant. The plan to turn [...]
Tweet By Julia Westhoff Even with the drought, beautiful and tasty veggies abound this time of year, leaving me scrambling to get them all eaten before they go bad. Lately we’ve been making some wonderful, simple salads inspired by the wonderful lettuce, cucumber, onion and tomatoes from the backyard and farmers market. I used to [...]
Tweet By Julia Westhoff I realize that we are now in the heart of summer harvest, and that no one in their right mind is reaching for frozen foods to heat up in the microwave. But you see, I am not in my right mind. I have a new baby, a toddler, and absolutely zero [...]
