How did you get interested in cooking? I enjoy a good meal, and the fire station when I started had lots of great cooks.What’s your favorite thing to cook at the station?Breakfast!What’s your favorite thing to cook at home? Grilled or smoked food. My kids love it, and it puts us on the porch outside just relaxing.Best cooking tip:Season well. Most foods … [Read more...]
Trial by Fire: It’s a Firefighters’ Face-off at This Year’s Iron City Chef
You could call the 2015 edition of Iron City Chef “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.”The Vestavia Hills Rotary Club’s annual fundraiser usually pits four professional chefs against each other in a hotly contested cooking competition. This year, the contestants don’t work in restaurants, but at fire stations. Iron City Chef: Firehouse Edition has four Over the Mountain … [Read more...]
From Arugula to Zuchinni: J&S Produce Brings Its Bountiful Harvest to Homewood
By Donna CorneliusIf you ask Jason Davidson what fruits and vegetables you’ll find at his Homewood produce stand, you may want to pull up a chair.It’s a pretty long list that ranges from arugula to zucchini.“Almost everything we sell is grown by my family in Chilton county,” Davidson said.He and his wife, Sheila, live in Clanton. But on Tuesdays, Thursdays and … [Read more...]
Ice to Meet You: Homewood Couple Brings Italian Treat to Birmingham
A Homewood husband and wife have given a Southern accent to a treat that’s more well known up north than down south.Birmingham native David Shaw and his wife, Wani, who’s from West Africa, met in Washington, D.C., and also lived in Delaware. That’s when they discovered Italian ice, they said.“It’s as popular there as iced tea is in the South,” Wani said.Italian ice … [Read more...]
Special Deliveries: Katie’s Plates Brings Healthy Meals to Customers’ Doors
By Donna CorneliusKatie Strickland’s goal is her own show on the Food Network. She also wouldn’t mind owning a restaurant – maybe two.“I’d like to have one restaurant with healthy food and another where I can go all out with no limitations,” she said.Those may be lofty ambitions. But Strickland already owns her own thriving food business. And she’s only 24 years … [Read more...]