Festive Mac&Cheese Dish...Is it a Side or a Meal?

Time to settle this once and for all!

It tends to be a debate often whether Mac and Cheese is to be ate as a side or a meal.

What do you think!? Click here to vote.

Speaking of Mac and Cheese...

The city of Louisville's first ever Mac and Cheese Festival will take place on Saturday September 21 until Sunday September 22. The event will be hosted downtown at Fourth Street Live! bringing over 40 different styles of mac and cheese for all lovers to try regardless of how you like yours served. Recipes coming from more than 15 food vendors.

If you are competitive when it comes to eating food then there are some contest created just for you to go against others. One of the contest will be based on who can eat the most mac and cheese in two minutes. Sign-ups are only available for the first 10 participants. In addition to this contest there will be one for the cheese fries lovers. A fry-eating contest where participants will be given a giant bucket of fries and whomever empty out the bucket first wins the crown.

A few awards will be given for Best Tasting Mac and Cheese, Most Unique Mac and Cheese and other awards to be announced soon.

At the event you can expect a cheese fry bar, giant craft beer garden, live entertainment, axe throwing and a lot more games, activities and merchandise.

More vendors will be present at the festival to sell items such as funnel cakes, cotton candy, ice-cream, water ice and other sweet goodies!

General admission pre-sale ticket price is $10, includes entry and a drink voucher. In order to sample mac and cheese, attendees must purchase vouchers which come in sheet sets of 10.

VIP pre-sale ticket price is $50, attendees are able to take part in a two-hour early entry, two hours of all you can eat mac and cheese, four drink vouchers, one complimentary order of french fires and a commemorative keepsake.

The festival is a kid friendly event! There will be a fun zone, carnival games and activities. Children 10 and under are free and do not need a ticket to access the festival.

Online ticket sales end on Saturday, September 21 at 3 PM or until all are sold out. Tickets may be purchased here.

Mac and Cheese Festival will take place regardless of the current weather conditions. Be sure to check the forecast so you can plan and dress accordingly.

Follow the event page on Facebook for futher details.

Eat at PizzaPapalis

Whenever traveling to a new city... I love to get in tune with some great local eateries.

After asking around within Detroit I stumbled across the Greektown area which is not too far from the host hotel were the 2018 NABJ national convention is taking place.

It was only a15 minute walk to Monroe street. A street that is filled with other restaurants door to door from each other, wth menus attached to their doors offering greek, bbq, pizza and more appetizing food.

I was on a budget and had to make a wise decision not only for my taste buds but my pockets as well. I heard some great things about this place called 'PizzaPapalis,' it is the choice I made for my first dining experience while in Detroit.

Their motto is: Bringing authentic Chicago pizza to Detroit!

There are several other locations throughout Detroit. They have a location in other parts of Michigan and one in Toledo Ohio as well.

PizzaPapalis rated as Detroit's #1 Gourmet Deep Dish Pizza place in Michigan.

However, during my first time here I did not buy what the average person would have purchased....pizza. After analyzing the menu several times and checking with my server on what most people order and what's worth the money that I can get full from...I sauced it up with some pasta at a price lower than $15. The salad and breadsticks was a part of the deal.

It was truly Pastalicious!! Before my departure I intend to go back to see if the pizza is really award winning...

Be sure to check out their menu at

Great Giant Pumpkin Lover!

It's that amazing time of the year!

Fall is here and so is everything pumpkin added with a little bit of spice.

Here are some places where pumpkin spice is taking over:

• Cracker Barrel - Pumpkin Spice Pancake Breakfast, Pancake Muffin and Pumpkin Custard n' Gingersnaps

• IHop - Pumpkin Spice Pancakes and Pumpkin Spice Coffee

• Krispy Kreme - Pumpkin Spice Glazed Doughnuts

• McDonald's - Pumpkin Pie's and Pumpkin Spice Latte's

• Olive Garden - Pumpkin Cheesecake

• Wild Eggs - Pumpkin Pancakes

• Starbucks - Pumpkin Spice Latte, Pumpkin Cheesecake Bar, Pumpkin Scone, Pumpkin Bread, Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffin

Of course there are other orange and tasty treats out there it just takes some browsing around.

Some of the pumpkin flavored things I have tried thus far this year are Krispy Kreme pumpkin spice donut, Sullivan University pumpkin roll and a pumpkin spice cookie from Great American Cookies

This is a slideshow of pumpkin-ny things I came across last fall season.

Be sure to check out Pintrest for some awesome pumpkin related recipes.