Category archives for: Food Scene

Birthday cake without the guilt

Yoplait Birthday Cake yogurt

Product: Yoplait Splitz Birthday Cake Yogurt Size: 3.25 ounces Price:$3.49 for a 4-count container Available: Most grocery stores You can have your cake and live bacteria, too. Yoplait’s new Birthday Cake Splitz yogurt brings on the flavor of vanilla-scented birthday cake without all the fat. Each container is just 90 calories, 1 gram of fat, […]






New chips off the old chocolate block

Nestle Toll House

  Product: Nestle Toll House Dark Chocolate Morsels Size:  10 ounces Price: $3.84 Available: Most grocery stores Dark chocolate chips from Nestle Toll House was a treat I couldn’t pass up. At 53 percent cocoa, the morsels are larger and pack more of a chocolate punch than any I’ve tried. These are so good that […]






Classico Enriches Pizza Sauce

Product: Classico Traditional Pizza Sauce Size: 14 ounces Price: $1.50 Available: Most grocery stores Intense tomato sauce, basil and other savory herbs give traditional pizza sauce a more sophisticated taste and texture than other similar sauces I’ve seen in the grocery store aisles. I like a sauce that is less sweet and more intense, and […]






Garden Lunch

Sandstone Gardens is not only a shopper’s paradise and gardener’s delight, but it’s also a treat for a foodie set in a luxurious bistro atmosphere. I have eaten there many times and I’ve yet to be disappointed with the seasonal delights set forth by cooks who serve entrees and desserts from scratch. The Starbucks tea […]






Homemade dog treats a hit

Dog treat, peanut butter bone

    Homemade Dog Treats Get Paws Up Gurgle. Belch. Growl. These are the sounds my dog Rudy’s stomach made last week. They sounded just like a human stomach when it’s distressed. Hmmm. Could this be because he has shared a spot at the dinner table as devourer of scraps? Dr. Willard Bratton, Rudy’s veterinarian in […]






Dining underground

Turtle Pie

Mud Street Cafe Hours: 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. for breakfast and 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. for lunch; closed on Wednesdays Address: 22 G S. Main Street, Eureka Springs Phone: (479) 253-6732 Web site: www.mudstreetcafe.com The sounds and cares of the day are forgotten once you leave Main Street’s upper level and step down […]






Cupcake heaven

A shot of sweet and a bite of creamy, fluffy bliss. The Spritetastic was just what I needed to cool down on a blistering July day in downtown Fayetteville. Is this a new drink? No. Surprisingly the name describes a cupcake that is light and topped with zesty lime buttercream frosting. This delectable treat is […]






Savor the fun

A food lover’s dream was served up Sept. 8 as 20 restaurants opened their doors for the seventh Savor the Flavor culinary experience in downtown Fayetteville. The Faith in Action fundraiser satisfied the tastes of Dickson Street patrons and offered several new dining options for this year. Sara Bartlett, the nonprofit’s Washington County program director, […]






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