Jeff Houck

The Tampa Tribune’s food writer since 2005, Jeff Houck covers the way people live through their food. He also hosts the Table Conversations food podcast and believes that everything crunchy is good.

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Maple-Bacon Cupcakes, Butter-Braised Lobster and Banana Rum Fritters [This Week’s Weekend Eats]

Posted Feb 13, 2012 by Jeff Houck

Updated Feb 13, 2012 at 03:03 PM

Most weeks when we do the ol’ Weekend Eats two-step around these parts, all you get are pretty photos of finished dishes looking all savory and sexy and ready for gorging.

This week, Christina McNally, who goes by the Twitter handle @guatemeha offered up a before-and-after of her bacon-wrapped chicken stuffed with Jalapeño and cream cheese.

The photo above is the before.

And this would be the after. Makes your tastebuds do a little dance, isn’t it?

For her detailed documentation of droolworthy vittles, Christina wins this week’s Weekend Eats award:

“The Lodge Cast Iron Cookbook; A Treasury of Timeless, Delicious Recipes.” target=“new”

Other contributions this week included:

@spiceandtea - Lasagna after running @262withDonna marathon. No pic, but trust me… it was religious!

@terrysimpson -Tea and water - sick, but did have chicken soup in the boardroom of @AlaskaAir - the best

@karenmcallister - Meatballs w/ @familyfoodie’s recipe. All at my house loved. Will use for Ital. Wedding Soup tonite.

And here’s this week’s gallery. Click on each photo to get a description: