Tampa Food Truck Rally - Take 2!

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Finally! Tampa is jumping on the Food Truck craze and this past Saturday was the second Food Truck Rally.

I was unable to make the first one, which took place back in September but I did hear it was a total success.  So much so that there was a much higher turnout that was planed, some 3,000 people, who waited more than an hour to buy from 10 vendors who soon ran out of food.  

Not a good start.

So, I was a bit apprehensive about this time around, and hoped that the event planners as well as the participating food trucks learned from their past mistake and were a bit more prepare. 

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GCC: Coconut Rice Fingers

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We continue the rice theme in the Gutsy Cooks Club.  This week it was to “make it sweet “ and the options were so good, that it was very hard to narrow it down to just one.

I’m a die-hard fan of rice pudding – side note: one day I will post my mother’s rice pudding in order to put all the other puddings to shame out there – Of course I will do this as soon as get her to share the recipe.

But, back to rice pudding.  If you see the options, all were a variation of rice pudding.  And boy did I want to make each and everyone one of them.  It really came down between the Rice Pudding ice pops (hello!! Rice Pudding Ice Pops… show me a person that would not be jumping up and down for one of those) and the intriguing Coconut Rice Fingers.

I bet you can guest which ones I went with?

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Baumkuchen or Schichttorte

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I read a lot of my fellow food blogs.  I really don’t have any particular preference when it comes to putting them on my reader.  But I do tend to gravitate towards those food blogs that have beautiful photography and out of the box creativity when it comes to making recipes.

So, it’s no surprise that when I ran into Sandra Mangas web page – “La receta de la Felicidad” I was immediately in love with her photography and the creativity of her recipes blew me away.  She is fun, and wimsy and her recipes are delicious too.

Go visit her right now and see what I mean.

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