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Monday Munchies: Fat Heads BBQ Stand

May 16, 2016

As part of my Monday Munchies series, I will feature a different eatery for a review on the third Monday of every month. Hope you enjoy!

I believe that you can get some really great food at road side stands. The food has to be good to keep people coming back since there really is no service or decor to help keep people coming back. When you drive by a stand and see people laying food out on the roof of their car and chowing down right there, you know it’s good.

Thankfully, there are plenty of road side stands near where we have moved to here in Florida. They dot the side of the road and are stationed in dusty parking lots.

My current fav is just a few miles away from us. Yes!

Besides the food itself, the thing that I love the most about Fat Heads BBQ Stand is that it is so fresh. They make your order when you order it. No, you don’t chill out in a plastic chair next to the smoke for hours waiting for your pulled pork to smoke, but they make everything to order. It’s take out but it’s not exactly quick, but I appreciate that.

Meaning, they cut the ribs, quarter the chicken, scoop the sides all the order. It’s not just hanging out there for you, it’s made for you with your order. So good.

The father and son duo that run it are so nice and talented. Stan Sr. and Stan Jr have been running the stand for over 5 years but have many combined years of experience of making great food.

I have tried it all and let me tell you everything is wonderful. Just wonderful!!

When ordering the pulled pork, you are asked if you want the sandwich wet (sauce mixed in) or dry and what bbq sauce you want, mild or spicy. I personally prefer it wet with mild sauce. The hot BBQ sauce is good but it’s very spicy. Proceed with caution if you don’t like things that spicy.

Just look at that smoke ring!!!

Their beef brisket is also so wonderful. I love the smokey flavor and the tender texture of the thin sliced brisket.

I think that everything is a great value, but their Family Value Dinners are the best option when you want to try a bunch of things, have a bunch of leftovers, or actually share with your family and friends. There are 2 options, the Fat Head sampler for $23, which ended up being 4 servings for us so that was a great value. The larger Dinner Meal for 4 for $40 which is very generous so be ready for some leftovers for lunch or your midnight snack.

The cornbread is not included in the samplers, but order it… it’s good.

As well, ask for buns when you get the sampler for the pulled pork so that you can make sandwiches.

I’ve enjoyed all the sides we have tried from our various visits. The collards and beans are my favorite. I love collards and enjoyed the sweet tang in their collards. My daughter likes the mac and cheese, which I thought was a little dry one time, but great the other times. I am picky about potato salad but I really liked their’s.

Be sure to stop by Fat Heads BBQ Stand when you have a chance. The quick 25 minutes drive south from Tampa is worth it. I swear!

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Fat Heads BBQ Stand

5813 N US Highway 41 (at the intersection of Big Bend Road)

Apollo Beach, FL 33572

Saturday and Sunday 11-7pm

813.731.5256

Catering available, accepts Debit/CC

Monday Munchies: Tasty Burger Food Truck

August 17, 2015

I love Tasty Burger!

I love food trucks!

Tasty Burger Food Truck = LOVE! LOVE!! LOVE!!!

Tasty Burger is a Boston area burger joint that has damn good burgers. They have juicy, flavorful, hearty burgers that are paired so perfectly well with fries, onion rings, or their tots. Or skip the burger and grab a chicken sandwich or hot dog. No matter, it will be wonderful. A cold beer washing it all down doesn’t hurt either. It’s just that kind of place with that kind of food.

They have 5 locations in Boston and Cambridge, in neighborhoods like Fenway, Back Bay, and Harvard Square. Each location is great. Their Fenway location, which we frequent most often, was an old gas station that was reworked and redesigned so it went from changing oil to frying in oil.

But what happens if you work downtown and you start craving a burger? Well, have no fear! They have a food truck that you can visit or even rent out for events. Cool!

Thankfully, the truck stops at City Hall plaza on Thursdays. So just a short walk and I am in burger nirvana! Sometimes Price and I have burger lunch dates so we can split tots ($6+) and a drink ($2.75) while we munch on burgers. The City has new summertime seating which makes kicking back for lunch a real treat.

On a recent trip, Price had the Bacon Cheeseburger ($5.85), that he thought was a great combination of a perfectly cooked burger (medium is standard) with salty, crunchy bacon, and fresh lettuce and tomato.

Tasty Burger prides itself on the products they produce and sell as they strive to source their ingredients from the best places. They create 1/3 pounds burger patties from steers that eat a “100-percent vegetarian grass and grain diet.” They visit the pastures where the cows are grass fed, purchase their hot dogs from local butchers, and get their buns from local bakers. They are hands on with sourcing their products and produce and in the end the quality shines through.

They have the best eco-friendly packaging for their burgers. I love peeling back to wrapper to reveal the burger.

I love their Spicy Jalapeno ($5.75). It has just the right amount of kick with burger that is topped off with a spicy cheese sauce and then roasted jalapenos.

Besides their delicious burgers, they also serve vegan & gluten free veggie burgers ($5.75), Fenway Park Sausages ($6), bowls of chili ($3.95+) that you can load up with toppings. And lastly, they have 1/4 pound hot dogs ($3.95) that can get piled high with toppings like bacon, chili, sauerkraut, or their cheese sauces. Such epic food.

I’ll be honest, their lunch can set you back pretty well as their burgers average $5 and then a plain tot is $6 and a soda is ($1.75 or $2.75). And if you get loaded tots it is now $9, but that is exactly why Price and I make this our special lunch date. Great large portions to share and it saves on getting a sitter!!

Grab a friend, grab a chair, and grab some Tasty Burger for a great lunch. Then head back to work with a naughty food coma! ha!

Be sure to try the Official Burger of the Boston Red Sox’s at one of their food truck stops or at one of their 5 brick and mortar locations, which has much more elaborate menus that include chicken sandwiches, the most addicted thinly sliced onion rings, and brain freeze inducing milkshakes.

Tasty Burger

Food Truck Menu (check for schedule HERE)

Lunching with Momogoose: Week 2

May 13, 2011

Week 2 of dining with Momogoose. I’m thoroughly enjoying my free lunches I have won for the month. Let’s see what I had for week #2.

Monday May 9th- Masala Chicken ($5.00)

How to liven up the first day back to work after a great weekend off? Get something flavorful and spicy! Lunch is a great way for me add some excitement to staring at a computer all day drawing and drawing a massive project.

Masala spices- the curry was really flavorful, it was a tad bit pungent for the office setting so I suggest eating this outside
Chicken- the tender white meat chicken was cut up into but sized pieces. Very manageable for eating on the go at lunch.
As a whole the entrée was really good. The portion was so large that I divided it in half and saved it for dinner at the office. I was expecting a saucer dish than what I received. I don’t mean to say it was dry at all, just saying I thought it was going to be a creamy curry; like chicken tika masala. Surprise, surprise.

Tuesday May 10th- Vietnamese Chicken Pho (Large $5)

Let’s say it together now… “Fuh” not “Faux” Let’s try that again “Fuh, Fuh Fuh!” Let’s use it in a sentence “This Chicken Pho was amazing!” Good, Good, let’s move on!

The pho was so flavorful because it had such a great base. I loved the light broth and how it warmed me up on yet another cold spring day.

The chicken was shredded white meat chicken. I love that it is shredded. I have a (strange?) phobia related to chopped up meat. It goes back to Campbell chicken soup and how gross that chicken is. I equate that anything chopped up is paid less attention of something that is shredded by hand. So I am so glad to see this shredded chicken

The cilantro that was floating in my soup adding occasional hits of extra flavor

Wednesday May 11th- ga nuog ($5.00) and a spring roll ($1.50)

I was supposed to meet Price on Tuesday for lunch but got caught up in the fact that I needed to get to the bank so I completely forgot. I’m so horrible! I made it up to him by meeting him for lunch today. I grabbed lunch at Momogoose and then went to sit in Quincy Market to share the meal.

Vermicelli noodles make for a good bed for the entrée. Vermicelli noodles are fairly nuetral in flavor so they do a good job at absorbing the lemon grass flavor from the chicken.

The chicken in the dish is dark meat. I don’t really like dark meat chicken so I skipped it and had the spring roll and some noodles. Worked out well, more for Pricer then.

Thursday May 12th– Chicken Dumpling Soup (Large $4.50)

Another cold day in Boston. What is going on? It feels like October!!! I knew I would get soup for lunch since Tuesday’s lunch was so good, plus I wanted the comfort of something warm. I decided to try the dumpling soup for some variety.

This soup was massive. It really is large enough for 2 meals, making it such a great value.

The broth is extremely flavorful. It was an more intense color than the pho I had on Tuesday. It was more peppery as well. I love white pepper in soup, especially Asian soups.

There were several dumplings mixed in the soup, along with the noodles. The dumplings were filled with ground chicken. They were large and tender.

Friday May 13th- Ginger and Scallion Chicken ($5.00)

I saw on twitter that the special for the day was Ginger and Scallion Chicken. I had also heard via twitter that a movie was being shot outside Quincy Market so I grabbed lunch, walked over there to watch the actors. I stayed classy by eating my lunch standing up star gazing.

The chicken was tender skinless white meat chicken breast.

It was clear that this was a ginger and scallion flavored meat entrée. The ginger was very prominent and there were several pieces of cooked scallion in the sauce. this is a great dish if you like ginger; if you dislike ginger then skip this dish.

I love that with every entrée they give you a few pieces of steamed veggies.

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My favorite meal this week was the chicken pho. I really loved the chicken dumpling soup more but slipped out of the ‘is this thing gluten free?’ zone when I got it and then slightly regretted it later. So the plainer soup with vermicelli noodles wins out.

Check out my Week 1 Recap for those lunch reviews!

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