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Diane Roark: Tacos4Life {A review}

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Celebrating Food Adventures

Tacos4Life - Every Meal You Buy A Meal Is Donated to Hungry Child
Every Meal You Buy Means A Meal Donated to a Hungry Child 

How is Tacos 4 Life so different from every other restaurant?

When you eat at Tacos 4 Life, you have an opportunity to help end childhood hungry around the world.

By choosing to eat Taco 4 Life’s delicious tacos, burritos, quesadillas and more, Tacos 4 Life helps feed a child who needs a meal. Tacos 4 Life calls this “Eat Good Do Good”.   You not only get amazing food, but you also get a good feeling when you eat a reasonably priced meal and know you are helping to feed hungry children.  My son Casey had an opportunity to help pack the meals.  His high school volunteered to help pack meals a couple of times.  My other son Caleb and I joined them.  I can tell you from experience that if you eat at Tacos 4 Life, they use a portion of the money to ship meals to hungry children with the help of the non-profit organization Feed My Children.  Feed My Children sends meals to countries with high rates of poverty and hunger.

In my opinion, not only is Tacos 4 Life Mission the best, but their food is just as terrific.

I Love Taco 4 Life’s Tex-Mex Food.  I could eat there several times a week and never get tired of it.  Their food is that delicious. Everything we have ordered at Tacos 4 Life has been extremely tasty.  

Here are some of my favorite things from their menu:

Beef Burito

  • Serious Steak Burrito: Marinated and grilled skirt steak, cilantro lime rice, refried beans, Pico de gallo, jack cheese, and chipotle aioli.  The Chipotle Aioli is amazing!  I would love to figure out how to make this amazing sauce.

Chipotle Chicken Burrito Tender marinated and grilled chicken, cilantro lime rice, refried black beans, chipotle aioli, jack cheese, and pico de gallo. This is one of the best burritos I have ever had. The Chipotle Aioli is extremely amazing!

  • Chipotle Chicken Burrito: Tender marinated and grilled chicken, cilantro lime rice, refried black beans, chipotle aioli, jack cheese, and pico de gallo.  This is one of the best burritos I have ever had.  The Chipotle Aioli is extremely amazing!  I would love to have this recipe.Tacos4Life Coconut taco
  • Ono Shrimp Tacos: An amazing shrimp taco with crispy shrimp tossed in pineapple cream ono sauce; served with pineapple, green onions, and toasted coconut in a grilled flour tortilla.
  • Where is Tacos 4 Life located? Tacos4Life’s newest location is in Fayetteville on College Avenue.  Visit the original location in Conway the original location is on Dave Ward Drive or their second location on Oak Street. Their food is amazing and their mission is incredible.  The owners are changing the world by feeding the hungry, and they are doing a wonderful job.  Follow Tacos 4 Life on their Facebook page.  You can volunteer to help pack meals to send to hungry kids all over the world.

If you are looking for a patio to have a picnic, Tacos 4 Life has extremely nice covered patios.  The Conway location on Dave Ward even has a fireplace for colder days.  

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Recipes For Our Daily Bread and Our American Travels are personal blogs written and edited by me, Diane Roark.  I am passionate about family, food, travel, and my new love of photography.  Recipes for our Daily Bread is where I blog about easy recipes to help you put dinner on the table quickly.  I enjoy sharing Southern Recipes for special occasions too.  Our American Travels is where I write about Family Fun Travels in America.   You will find restaurant reviews plus information on Disney World, Branson, Alaska, Maine, and many Southern states.  Be sure to join the other 20,000 Pinterest followers who follow Diane_Roark on Pinterest , FaceBook, Instagram, Twitter. 

 

Sarabeth Jones: Food Adventures in Argenta

Celebrate Food Adventures in Argenta

I love my hometown of North Little Rock, especially the revived historic downtown district of Argenta, where you can have a food adventure just walking down Main street!

Start with at Mugs Café. Yummy coffee concoctions and breakfast – and folks line up out the door on Saturday mornings for their all you can eat pancakes for just $5.

Food in Argenta - Mugs people

Food in Argenta - Mugs Cafe breakfast

Work off some of that breakfast by wandering down to Argenta Bead Company, Galaxy Furniture, or the Argenta Drugstore – each with it’s own eclectic atmosphere and plenty to look at. Or, if it’s summertime, you definitely will want to spend some time at the Argenta Farmer’s Market, where the food and products are all guaranteed Arkansas-grown.

Food in Argenta-farmers market

Perhaps you are thirsty by now, so walk a couple blocks over to Diamond Bear Brewery to enjoy their patio and a local craft beer. More likely than not, there will be some sort of fun event going on as well.

Food in Argenta - Diamond Bear cases

Food in Argenta - Diamond Bear Brewery

Or perhaps you are ready for a lovely lunch. Back over on Main, you’ll find fantastic pizza and pasta dishes at Ristorante Capeo, a beautiful spot that has long been known for excellent Italian dinner. We are all grateful that they’ve added lunch to their repertoire.

Food in Argenta - Ristorante Capeo

If you find yourself in the area during the evening, you’ll want to head to The Joint. This coffee shop/comedy club also serves cocktails and light meals while hosting live music and improv nights. And there is always an original theater show running performed by The Main Thing, a brilliantly funny comedy trio. Truly – something for everyone!

Food in Argenta-The Joint

Food in Argenta - The Joint outside

Or maybe you’re just looking for a quiet spot. Sit and enjoy a lovely glass of wine or beer and a charcuterie plate at Crush. The atmosphere is as much a draw as their extensive wine selection; this is the perfect quiet spot to have a date or meet friends for conversation.

Food in Argenta - Crush Wine Bar

Food in Argenta - Crush Wine Bar patio

There you have it: morning, noon, or night, there’s are food adventures to be had in Argenta!

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sarabeth jones 2JPGSarabeth Jones is a creative at Fellowship North who enjoys all kinds of artistic work; her latest project is bringing the national live-reading show Listen To Your Mother to Little Rock. She lives in Sherwood with her husband, Bryan, and their kids, Elizabeth, Jonathan, and Will. She loves to write about the way they make her laugh on her blog, thedramatic.com.

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Paula Henry: Mafe {Foodie Friday}

Celebrate Food Adventures: Mafe – An African Stew

 

mafe african stew

 

During the years I was lucky enough to get “stuck” in France, I picked up a lot of practical, food-related lifestyle insights:  meals are good, snacking is not; if you feed your kids in courses, veggies first, the veggies get eaten; it is alarmingly easy to buy a bad baguette in Paris—better to commit your neighborhood’s “good” boulangerie’s  apparently arbitrary schedule to memory. 

The French really know the ins and outs of food.  Maybe it was the wine, but I’d swear I never ate a disappointing meal while there. If they can’t put something worthwhile on the table, they prefer not to eat. 

That’s why it seems counter-intuitive that among all the delicious dishes I sampled while there, perhaps my favorite is Mafe (mah fay), a hearty Senegalese peanut stew often available in the North African cafes of larger cities.

Traditionally made with lamb or other meat, I prefer to make Mafe as a vegetarian dish, rich with meaty root vegetables.  As with most stews, many variations will work (skip the turnips and up the sweet potatoes, saute some sweet peppers with the onions, throw some torn kale in towards the end), but the stars here remain the chick peas and peanut butter.  Though it sounds like an exotic combination, if you grew up with peanut butter as a staple like me and still crave its comforting and childhood-memory-inducing qualities, you’ll love this dish in any of its incarnations.

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Mafe: An African Stew

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup vegetable or olive oil
  • 4 cloves garlic
  • 1 large onion
  • 1 large potato
  • 1 large turnip
  • 1 carrot
  • 2 large sweet potatoes
  • 2 tablespoons tomato paste
  • 1 tablespoon smoked paprika
  • 1/2 tablespoon cayenne pepper (optional)
  • 1/2 tablespoon cumin
  • 2 fresh thyme sprigs
  • 2 cups cooked garbanzo beans (or 1 15-ounce can garbanzo beans), drained and rinsed
  • Fine salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 4 cups stock of your choice or water
  • 2 Tbsp fish sauce, optional
  • 3/4 cup creamy, natural peanut butter
  • parsley for garnish

Instructions

  1. 
Finely chop the garlic and dice the onions. Peel and cut the potato, turnip, carrot, and sweet potato into ½ inch cubes.
  2. In a large, heavy pot over medium heat, heat the oil until shimmering and add the onions and garlic.  Cook 2-3 minutes (until onions are transparent), then add the paprika, cayenne pepper and cumin and cook one more minute. Add the root vegetables, tomato paste, thyme sprigs, chickpeas, salt and black pepper.
  3. Mix well. Cover and bring to boil. Reduce the heat and simmer until the veggies are tender, 20 to 25 minutes.
  4. Turn off the heat but leave the pot on the stove.
  5. Stir in the peanut butter and fish sauce, mix well and let sit for 5 minutes before serving.
  6. Sprinkle with chopped parsley and serve with jasmine or basmati rice.

Notes

Adapted from the Cooking Channel’s “West African’s Finest Mafe” recipe.

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Paula Henry

 After graduating Bentonville High School and Hendrix College, Paula spent many years out of the area, including time in Key West, New York City, London, New York and Paris.  After the birth of their two boys, she returned to family and Bentonville, where, with her husband Frederic. She now owns and operates Crepes Paulette, a popular local food truck, with a storefront Crepes Paulette coming soon to “southern” downtown Bentonville.

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