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The best restaurants in Searcy.....  The food is exceptional.... drum roll ..... Letty's and  Cookie Basket.

Places I frequent becasue the food is good:  Sonic and Subway.

Best coffee:  Midnight Oil has the best coffee and sandwiches; but I do not frequent there often becasue it is too expensive.  I treat myself once a month with a visit.  The coffee has a rich medium roasted, nutty,  flavor; not dark and over roasted.   Midnight Oil uses a coffee from ....          in Rose Bud, Arkansas to supply their coffee.   This is the coffee I buy to brew at home.   

While  Underground Coffee shop has a good quality coffee it is not my favorite.   They use  ....                  coffee; a  milder flavor coffee.  It taste like the water temperature is not getting  hot enough to bring out the full flavor.   While Underground is not my favorite its serves and atmosphere are equal to Midnight Oil.   In all fairness I would rate the two coffee shops equal.  Their atmospheres and coffee are  different   but both are good coffee shops.    

Best bakery: Key Lime Cottage  (I may be partical as my good friend's daughter owns the bakery) 

The food has to be good to motivate me to blog about it. 

The food has to be good to motivate me to blog about it.   

 Don and I ate at a new sushi place in Little Rock; Choo Choo Steam.  I wanted to eat there a second time before I blogged about it.  But the restaurant went out of business!  I was so disappointed becasue the sushi on rice was the best I have ever had.   I had a salmon, a shrimp, and an ell sushis.  It was my first time to try eel and it was very nice.  I am looking forward to trying eel again.     So we went to Honaro Sushi Bar.   The sushi "pretty woman" sushi roll was good. 

We have an Italian restaurant Roma in our little town, Searcy  The food is okay.  I love their red sauce.  My friend Alison loves their breat and zitti pasta dish.  I usually order the eggplant.  

I tried a new dish with some tibidation.  The last two new dishes I tried there; the chicken was not throually cooked.  I returned the dish and then reordered my usual egg plant.    The new dish I tired was Maha Maha.  Oh my word!  It was wonderful!    I hope the restaurant does well.       Roma is well worth dining at. 

. Update Sept. 08 . Roma closed  

We recieved a gift of a couple of jars of Harry and David food items.  One of the item's was "Brushetta spread".  We had to look it up on the internenet just to know what it is and how to prepare it for consumption.  It is a nice ethnic Italian tomato based spread eaten with bread and cheese.   It is probably a comfort food for those who have grown up with Brushetta.  For us it was nice but not something I would make a point to buy.  However I will be buying a jar soon and here is why.   We were making two pots of chille; one with tomatos and one without.  I thougt oh I will dump the Brushetta in the chilli for the tomatos.  Oh MY Word;  it absolutley makes the chilie wonderful.  

My chillie recipe is simple:  two pounds of ground meat browned,  two packages of Williams chille mix, one can of dark red kiddney beans,  small onion diced, dash of salt.   Mix ingredents in a crock pot in the moring and cook til supper time.      (If i make a pot with tomatoes; I use one can of diced tomatoes or now one jar of Harry and David's Brushetta Spread".  

Well I am tired of Lean Cuisines.   Lean Cuisines' does have a new meals "Flatbread Melts".  The Flatbread Melts are okay.  Taste like their Sandwiches just on a little different bread.  I did not care for the "Flatbread Melts"  too thick bread.  The taste was not anyt hing new or different from their Sandwiches.

So in my search for something different to eat I came across some pre-fab meals that are tasty, nutrition and calorie conscious. My pantry is now stocked with Annie chun's Sushi Wraps and Annie Chun's Udon Noodle Soup.

Annie Chun's Sushi Wraps with sticky white rice includes wraps, a recyclable bowl and soy sauce.  I ate smoked salmon with the sushi wraps. 
I enjoy this meal so much that my pantry is now stocked with the rice bowl meals.    

I had never had Udon Noodle soup so this was a new taste experience.  The soft noodles are wonderful.  The ingredients used taste fresh and rich flavored.  The company is earth conscious and the bowl is made from mostly corn starch.   I wonder how quickly it compost?  I will put one in my garden and let you know.