While on spring break i went to an amazing restaurant in Florida called Snook Haven. It was heaven! The locals call it old Florida. It is seated right next to a river that is filled with alligators! It features local entertainment such as various banjo players. And as far as the food, it might be the best thing i have ever tasted. Even just starting with the drinks. I ordered a sweet tea assuming it would be nestea or some name brand, but no, it was freshly brewed true sweet tea. I couldn't stop drinking it! I think i must have gone trough a whole pitcher; it must have been the best thing i have ever drank. Now onto the food, i ordered the shrimp and chips, which came with another side dish so i also got baked mac and cheese. I did not have a single complain about anything, and the portions where so generous i couldn't complain. The chips where so delicious, they where home made and the perfect crispiness and thickness. And they had all these homemade hot sauces you could use! I tried a little of each on a chip till i found my favorite (which was the sweetest one they had). Then after i devoured most of the chips i moved onto the shrimp them self. Words cant even describe how perfect the batter on the shrimp was. It had so a deep flavor yet, it was so light and not greasy at all, and it had the perfect crispiness. Just the sight of the shrimp itself was mouth watering. And lastly was the mac and cheese. It had such a great combo of gooey cheesiness balanced with backed crispiness. Ad surprisingly, it just harmonized with everything else on the plate. Over all i would definitely eat there again and i will most definitely start eat more southern comfort foods. -Bailey S

A few weeks ago My family and I spent a day in the city. We tried see as much as possible, and coincidentaly as we were getting hungry little Italy was close by. Much arguing was going on as we tried to choose a restraunt to eat at. I follow my dad up and down streets, finally we turned around this corner and the smell was amazing. I traced the smell back to this little pizza/bakery take out place. It was fresh dough almost with a sweet smell to it accopanied by a rich and authentic tomato sauce much different than what I'm used to topped with the perfect amount of cheese. And what made it better, everyone recieved their own mini pizza in a bag similar to soft pretzels. It was easily the best pizza I have ever had and possibly the most mouth watering meal I have had in Little Italy -Ryan Pisani

I'm not a big fan of messy eating and getting all dirty with finger foods, but when it comes to sloppy joes I can't resist. Sloppy joes are probably one of my favorite finger foods. I don't know why but I love it when its really messy. An interesting thing that I did before was instead of using the sloppy joe sauce for the beef of the sloppy joe try using the sauce for spaghetti it's actually pretty good. It's like sloppy joe but its spaghetti. There once was a bar in Florida that was called sloppy joes and they say that they had the sandwich made there too. Sloppy joe is known as fast food selling product. Making your own sloppy joe is simple, but the sauce might be hard, that's why today if you go to your local grocery store you'll find Manwich which is a sloppy joe sauce. The ingredients for the sloppy joe sauce are extra virgin olive oil, onion diced, bell pepper diced, minced garlic, ground turkey, canned pureed tomatoes, BBQ sauce, ketchup, white vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, brown mustard, and finally chile garlic sauce. All these ingredients may sound bizarre, but they make the sloppy joe amazing! Is that why the sauce is kind of dense? Anyways,you should really try the sauce with spaghetti with meat in it. Its so good. ~Mirna M.

The other day for dinner I had steak fajitas for dinner, with Mexican rice. I started it off by marinating the steak with a lime-cilantro marinade, and let it sit for half an hour. Then I threw the steak on the grill and cooked at medium temperature for about 4 minutes each side. Meanwhile I had cut up some onions and peppers, and then proceeded to sauté over medium heat. Once the steak was done I took it off the grill and cut it up into slices. I mixed it in with the peppers and onion, as well as added in some jalapeños. I then lowered the temperature and mixed in a packet of seasoning with the fajitas. After that I added some water in to make it a little liquidier and kept the food warm while I prepared everything else. I had also been cooking some rice on the side for the meal. Finally I heated up some tortillas in the microwave to have the fajita mix on. It turned out to be very good, I’d never had steak fajitas before only chicken. I would definitely make it again sometime. Jack B

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Last weekend was my cousin’s communion so when there is a communion, there most likely is an after party. So I thought it would be cool to make a chocolate rapture with homemade ice cream. Now to make a chocolate rapture you need 21 ½ oz of brownie mix, 2 two ounce chocolate mousse mixes, 12 oz of cool whip, 8 14 oz heath bars (basically any chocolate bar you want) and 1 cup of chopped pecans. Before I say how the dish is created it serves a lot of 15-20 people so it’s not all for just one person. First what you do is make the brownies and let them cool down. You get a big serving dish its hard to describe what it looks like but if you think of a cake dish with a clear pot on top, that what it sort of looks like. So lets get back to actually constructing the cake. On the bottom layer you put down half of the brownies. (The brownies should be crushed up) Then you make half of the mousse and pour it on the crushed brownies. Next you cover the mousses with half of the cool whip. On top of the cool whip you can sprinkle a lot or a little of whatever candy bar you want. Then you repeat this process one more time until so the bowl is filled. Once you have completed all of these steps put the chocolate rapture in the fridge and let it chill over night so it is easier to serve. Next I made homemade ice cream. To do this I got 2 cups of heavy cream, 1 14 oz can of condensed milk, 3 tablespoons of melted butter, ½ tsp of ground cinnamon and ½ tspn of vanilla extract. What I did was whipped the heavy cream until it became still and would stick to the sides of the bowl. Then I combined the milk, butter, cinnamon and vanilla until they were all mixed well. Then I mixed both of the bowls together until it was stiff and put them in the freezer for 6 hours. (I know this sounds like a small recipe and it is, I might have doubled or tripled it but that is what the recipe I have looks like.) 

Every year when I go spring skiing at Killington VT we always make an effort to eat at The Garlic since it’s a great restaurant. After you order your food the waiter comes back with bread and garlic. Its roasted garlic so it loses most of its potent smell and taste but it’s easily spreadable. After that your dinner comes. I ordered wild mushroom pasta. It had an Alfredo type sauce with wild mushrooms and penne pasta. Then for desert I ordered 3 layered chocolate mousse cake with white and dark chocolate mousse and a bottom layered ganache. My sister ordered tiramisu and that was delicious also. Michael B.

I was in New York City for the weekend about 3 months ago and Mrs. Hoagland told my mom before we went to try the Meatball shop in New York City. I figured if Mrs. Hoagland said its really good then it has to be. So the first night were there, we decide to try it. We had to wait a little bit because it was crowded but I knew it was going to be good because it was already crowded at 5. We finally get seated and I ordered the meatball parmesan. The food come and it looked so good. Every bite I took the food kept getting better. It also came with salad and it was very good. It was a bit different then your ordinary salad but it was just as good. When I finished with my dinner, I ordered desert. I ordered a chocolate chip cookie sandwich with vanilla ice cream in the middle. This was one of the best deserts I’ve ever had. This was probably one of the best restaurants I’ve ever been too. The next time I go to the city, I’m definitely going to go to the Meatball shop again. Michael P