Florida Fun

Recipe: Flour-less Banana & Blueberry Pancakes

Posted on Apr 29, 2013 in Culinary Travel, Disclosure, Florida Fun | 2 comments

Four-Ingredient Pancake – Banana, Blueberries, Eggs and Cinnamon

The older I get the more my body reminds me breakfast is the most important meal of the day. This flour-less, gluten-free recipe only has FOUR ingredients and puts those very ripe bananas and fresh blueberries from Wish Farms (found at supermarkets such as Publix) to use.

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with Berry Pepper Cilantro Sorbet

Posted on Apr 28, 2013 in Culinary Travel, Disclosure, Featured, Florida Fun | 0 comments

Berry Pepper Cilantro Sorbet, Perfect for Cinco de Mayo

Planning a Cinco de Mayo fiesta? Here’s a twist on the popular paletas, those Mexican ice pops made with fresh seasonal fruit. If you don’t have the setups for making ice pops, try this refreshing sorbet recipe I whipped up utilizing fresh strawberries, blueberries and my favorite herb, cilantro. Berries are plentiful this time of year in Florida both at u-pick farms and supermarkets such as Publix, where you can find Wish Farms strawberries and blueberries.

A Puntalicious Day in Punta Gorda, Fla.

Posted on Apr 14, 2013 in Culinary Travel, Featured, Florida Fun, Girlfriend Getaway, Nature Travel | 1 comment

Berrylicious! Blueberries Picked from Berry Best Farm in Punta Gorda, Fla.

Yesterday was absolutely Puntalicious! My travel writer friend Lucy Tobias and I had a delicious time in Southwest Florida’s City of Punta Gorda. (Hence, I’m calling it Puntalicious!)

2013 Florida International Air Show Wowed in Punta Gorda

Posted on Mar 31, 2013 in Florida Fun, Solo Adventures | 5 comments

Wing Walker Jane Wicker Hanging with Her Ankles from Her Biplane at the Florida International Air Show in Punta Gorda, Fla., March 24, 2013

Military jet teams seem to be the biggest draw for an air show yet they were absent from this year’s Florida International Air Show at the Punta Gorda Airport last weekend. But ya know what? The show was pretty darn spectacular.

Charity Strawberry U-Pick Event at Plant City’s Wish Farms April 6 & 7, 2013

Posted on Mar 28, 2013 in Culinary Travel, Florida Fun | 0 comments

Join Wish Farms Charity Strawberry U-Pick April 6, 2013 and Make Something Tasty!

Plant City is Florida’s sweet spot. It’s the Winter Strawberry Capitol of the World for the abundant strawberry farms and one of those is hosting a charity strawberry u-pick Saturday & Sunday, April 6 & 7 2013. Wish Farms located in Duette (about a 30-minute drive south of Plant City) will open a ready-to-pick strawberry field just for this event.

For my Sarasota friends, it’s about a 50-minute drive.

Wing Walker Jane Wicker Bringing Golden Era of Grace to 2013 Florida International Air Show

Posted on Mar 21, 2013 in Cool Stuff Others are Doing, Florida Fun | 0 comments

Wing Walker Jane Wicker Demonstrates Some of Performance for the Florida International Air Show, Punta Gorda, Fla., March 21, 2013

Walking on the wing of an airplane racing at speeds between 80 and 140 mph seems um, oh, I don’t know. Risky, perhaps? Spectators heading out to the 33rd Annual Florida International Air Show at the Punta Gorda Airport Saturday and Sunday, March 23 and 24, 2013, will be treated to the graceful performance of wing walker Jane Wicker.