Matt Troy Jones, a Lake Nona resident, was recently featured on Gordon Ramsay’s hit Fox television show, The F Word, and set the Guinness World Record for the fastest time of cutting up an entire watermelon: a jaw-dropping 18 seconds!Matt’s story has humble origins, beginning with a simple YouTube video, uploaded for the sake of showing off to his friends and family how quickly … [Read more...]
The Ultimate Nona Bar Crawl
For this month’s installment of the Nona Food Challenge Series, Aaron and Matt divert from food, and shift focus to the local bars. The challenge this time was to partake in as many local “Happy Hours” as possible, all within the span of one day’s worth of happy hours. At first mention, this mission seemed pretty simple, get a few drinks at a few bars. We soon discovered that … [Read more...]
Grilled Chicken Fajitas
As we enter July, I find my family grilling out most evenings. My recipe for grilled chicken fajitas is the ideal no-mess (very little cleanup) kind of meal, perfect for a quick weeknight meal, and best of all contained on the grill! I’ve been making grilled chicken fajitas on the grill for the past few years. Since making them on the grill, I can honestly say I … [Read more...]
Canvas Meals To Go: Not the Same Old Song & Dance
Imagine being super busy like you are almost every day of the work week. The tasks you thought you had to complete are taking more time than you planned, and you just received an angry text message from one of your clients that will require you to be at the office much later than expected. Not only that, you somehow have to figure out how you are going to get from downtown to … [Read more...]
The Story of Asados
La Perla Del Sur (The South Pearl), also known as Ponce, Puerto Rico, is the birthplace of Jose Luis Rullan Lopez De Haro. It is the place where Jose spent his childhood and dreamed of one day owning and managing his own restaurant. This also was the place where he met the love of his life, Lillian Varela, whom he married, and together they had two beautiful girls: Amanda and … [Read more...]