SacFoodies

Sacramento's top 10 flavors and some great toppings to enhance that ice cream cup of yours. With all our fantastic parlors, Sacramento ice cream lovers are certainly blessed. Vanilla Vanilla is a universal flavor. If you pull out any number of recipes, you will probably find that it calls for vanilla. Vanilla is used to flavor almost anything, including cookies, fountain drinks, tea, and even breakfast cereals. All of these items use vanilla as a flavoring because it enhances the taste and makes it more enjoyable, while at the same time retaining the taste of all of the other ingredients. If you were to add cocoa to any of these items, it will all just taste like chocolate. You would lose all of the other delectable flavors to the overpowering chocolate. Toppings to try out: Strawberry sauce, butterscotch, sprinkles. Chocolate Chocolate is North America’s favorite flavor. When surveyed, 52% of adults responded with chocolate, and only 12% responded with vanilla. U.S. chocolate...

Most of the time, we want Thai restaurants . Thai food masterfully walks a delicate line between salty, spicy, sour, and sweet, perhaps no better demonstrated than in pad Thai. Undeniably the most ubiquitous and oft-ordered dish in American-Thai restaurants, it's perfection. From the slight funk of fish sauce to the peanutty topping to the just-a-little-chewy noodles to the fresh squeeze of lime juice brightening it all up… sorry, what were we saying? Oh, right. Pad Thai. While it's an American favorite, there are a lot of other sleeper hits waiting to be discovered on your local Thai takeout menu. We asked the chefs at our favorite Thai restaurants to ID the best dishes you're not ordering…yet. Next time you go out for Thai, choose my favorite go-to dish, Pad Kra Pow Pad Kra Pow "Everyone in Thailand eats this once a week," says chef Jet Tila of this spicy basil stir-fry.This dish is made by sautéing chiles and garlic in a hot wok, then adding ground meat ...