FruitSlinger

I've been meaning to tell you all about Fruitslinger for a while now, but there always seems to be something else to cook, or eat, or write about. This blog involves some of my favorite things: Seasonal recipes, the perfect-imperfections of really good food photography and zany real-life interactions.

Free Pizza

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Tony's Pizza. All opinions are 100% mine. (Because this is our food blog where we always share our opinions.)

The folks at Tony's Pizza think the Boy and I need some free pizza. I don't know, maybe it's our college student vibe? Anyway, they were nice enough to send us some coupons to try their pepperoni, plain and supreme pizzas.

We were pretty excited because, if you haven't noticed, we really like trying new foods. But we don't really eat a lot of frozen foods. We love to go out, and the Cary / Raleigh area has a lot of great places to eat. I also really like to cook (I've been considering adding Boy and Girl Stay In to this blog, but as much as I love to cook and eat, I'm miserable at food photographs, so every one of my recipes would end "Trust me, it's good."). These were quick to make, and tasty, and the ones with toppings actually had the toppings, not just a lonely piece of pepper on top of the cheese. (I'm looking at you, Lean Cuisine pizzas.)
Now we'd like to share some of these coupons with you! To win free pizza, you'll need to leave a comment with your email, and your favorite place to eat out. Of course, you don't have to be local to comment and enter, but the chances of us checking out your suggested spot are much better if you're near Raleigh.

You can also have an extra entry each time you spread the word. Post on Facebook, mention us on your own blog, tweet this, send up smoke signals, whatever. Just leave a comment with the URL letting us know where you linked us for an extra entry.

Until We Eat Again

Until We Eat Again is a food blog I've been meaning to tell you all about. It's written by a long-distance, vegetarian couple, sharing their recipes and dining adventures. It's hard not to read it and start to get hungry, which is the real test of a good food blog. Anyway, they're running a nut butter contest, where a lucky commenter will receive a jar of New York nut better and a jar of Canadian nut butter. In case you've been wanting to run an internation nut butter taste test!

Oh, and we'd also like to invite Caitlin and Will to come over or come out with us for rocking veggie Indian fare if they find themselves in North Carolina!

(For more food blogs that I've been meaning to tell you again, check the Foodie links in the sidebar.)

When Restaurant Web Pages Attack

We love restaurants. We love trying new restaurants. We find out about restaurants by driving by, and then looking them up online, or by verbal recommendation and then looking them up online, or skipping that tedious social interaction part, and just looking them up online. Anyway, we have this situation quite often:

Me: What are your hours?
Website: Take a look at our menu! It’s a PDF of a screenshot of a scan of a Word document printed on a dishtowel. With fonts!
Me: I don’t care. What are your hours?
Website: Don’t worry, the menu loads in a new window so the music won’t stop. Can I show you some broken images?

Via venomous porridge - A conversation I have every month or so (The whole conversation is well worth reading, I just didn't want to quote the whole post.)

Review Writing Gold Star

The Boy and I were browsing Urbanspoon for a new place to try when we stumbled across this hilarious review. Jim Penny sent in a mobile review describing Danny's Bar-B-Que:

I wouldn't bother for my own purposes, but if I'm entertaining really dull people, they're at risk to be taken there.

We've not tried Danny's BBQ, but that is an amazingly descriptive review!

Via Danny's Bar-B-Que - Cary | Urbanspoon