Dec 14, 2011

The COOK is in the house!!!

Did you ever wonder how Sugar Philly made some of their desserts? Well guess what? You weren’t the only one!

Team Sugar Philly actually was able to offer a dessert making class at the wonderful COOK kitchen started by Audrey Claire. The kitchen (and obviously the people) were amazing not to mention the beautiful windows to see people passing by, great collection of cooking books on the shelves, and the best little pantry of kitchen essentials (we miss you glass milk carton!). But what is a perfect setting without the perfect star. Chef Tang was like a celebrity chef blazing through 3 of our recipes and a few of our secrets while sharing a few stories. Most importantly though we hope everyone had a good time, learned something new, and got a little taste of heaven.

Check out a little bit of the fun:

We aren’t the only ones that teach at COOK though! They have amazing classes and some sell out quick. Their January schedule just got released so check out more classes from COOK here.

By: franklin @ 12:15am
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Nov 28, 2011

2011 Annual Dessert Throwdown Went Down!

We forgot to post the event on our blog, but the 2nd Annual Sugar High Showdown with Penn Gastronomy went down last weekend before the Thanksgiving break.  This time all three of us were there to help out with the judging.  It’s a hard job, but someone has to taste all the desserts and figure out how they taste! It was a great event and we had a great time. Everyone did a great job again this year.  We can already tell that it’s going to get harder and harder each year to choose the winners.  This year it went to: Judge’s Choice: Indian Spiced Sticky Toffee Pudding, Kimberly Schreiber Audience Favorite: Chai Tres Leches Cake with Almond Brittle; Crystal Lu For those that missed the event, check out the food porn here!

By: franklin @ 1:06pm
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Nov 9, 2011

#givingissweet (Pumpkin Custard is BACK!)

yes, its fall. kinda. (snow and then 70 degrees……..) but we still felt it was time to bring back our beloved fall-y dessert (starting thursday 11/10)

Pumpkin Custard with Candied Pecan and Oats with Torched Marshmallow (YUM!)

but a special announcement with this one is that we have partnered with Givology @ Penn to do a little awareness project.  here’s how to get involved:

Remember, snap a picture of our Pumpkin Custard with your brand new iPhone 4S and throw #givingissweet on a tweet to @sugarphilly & @givology for a chance to win! (facebook too!)

Got it? GOOD!

support our friends at Givology through this link: www.givology.org/

 

 

By: john @ 12:35pm
In: News
Sep 21, 2011

The UC Food Truck Guide

University City has a great number of awesome food trucks. In fact, one of them was the center of my life for two years, dishing my lunch and dinner to me almost every day. Sometimes though you just don’t know about all the trucks that are out there. Thankfully, UWISHUNU, with the help of Penn Appetit, have put together a nice little guide for the trucks to look out for. Guess what? Sugar Philly is one of the top picks!  We’ve put a link in our press section, but check the article out here.

By: Sugar Philly @ 1:10pm
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Sep 19, 2011

Field Trip: NYC Vendy’s

I know some of you went to the Piazza for when we were competing in the Vendy’s here in Philly. It was a great time and we had a blast! Did you?

Well we are going to the Vendy’s again!!! But this time we aren’t competing but just spectating. It’s September and the New York City Vendy’s has finally “rolled” in. It’s this weekend on Governor’s Island! All three of us will be attending to see what the Big Apple trucks can cook up and see some of our other food truck friends. Of course, if anyone wants to join us, definitely feel free to! We’d love to meet up and try some food and desserts with you! We’ll be the Philly team and represent our city of brotherly love! See you there!

http://streetvendor.org/vendys/

By: franklin @ 11:03am
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Sep 16, 2011

Sugar Philly is a little Sugar High

Did you guys get to see our episode? Did any of you come out to the viewing party? We had a great time and as Rene of Rim Cafe would say, “WE MADE IT HAPPEN!” It was a great celebration for our Food Network (USA) premier on the Sugar High show!  The people of Brown Betty and Rim Cafe all came together to have some fun and obviously give you all a taste of the high life.  We were handing out our beloved French maracons. Brown Betty was dishing out its amazing rice pudding. And the great host Rim Cafe made amazing hot chocolate to order.  If you weren’t able to join in on the festivities, here’s a little sneak peak to a very sweet Sugar Philly weekend.

By: franklin @ 11:54am
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Sep
9

Sweet! We’re on TV Again!!! “Sugar High” Viewing Party Tomorrow!

Friday, 9/9/2011 at 10:00pm

Wow!  It’s finally here!  For those of you at the University City Night Market by the Food Trust, you might remember our truck being filmed for a show on the Food Network.  If you were lucky, you might have even been served by the ace of cakes Duff Goldman!

Well folks, the show is finally going to air the Philly episode!  If you can, tune in on Friday to the Food Network’s Sugar High at 10:30 PM.  If you can’t (I know Friday nights you all can be out and about), then don’t worry.  You can catch it at 1:30 AM or wait until Sunday at 6 PM.  Some of us are camera shy, but you’ll see our dear Chef Tang front and center.  Let us know what you think of the episode!

BUT we don’t want to celebrate alone! For people who don’t have plans yet on Friday, come watch the episode with us!  We’ll be joining our other amazing Philly dessert folks Brown Betty and Rim Cafe to watch the episode live.  We would love to see any of our good friends there and I know we’ll have a good time.  Just come on down to Rim Cafe at 1172 South 9th Street (at the corner of 9th & Federal) around 10:00 PM.  We’ll get situated and even try to give ya’ll some desserts! And for those with bigger appetites, I’m totally up for walking a block to Pat’s cheesesteaks. See you there! =)

By: franklin @ 11:47am
In: Events, See Us on TV, , , , , , ,
Sep 5, 2011

And We’re Back.

Vacation is over, Sugar Philly is back and hopefully as prepared as we are going to be for the fall!

Everybody ready for school, work, and the chaos of life?

We certainly aren’t!  Haha

Ohh well, we will live and move on.  Enjoy this picture of our milk and honey macaron!

 

Time to sleep for me!  Until tomorrow, laters!

By: dan @ 10:09pm
In: News
Sep 1, 2011

SP Work Vaca… Part 4/end

Truck friends then family


If any of you really know me, I am not the biggest fan of taking pictures of food.  I find it a bit weird, food is meant to be eaten not fantasized over.  These are the tacos from the food truck Cucina Zapata, who happened to start their twitter today.  Hurrah!  Anyway, I forgot to take a picture their truck while I was there so their thai tacos will have to do.

Owning and running a food truck can get indeed overwhelming to say the least.  Luckily the community of food trucks its probably one of the biggest perks of owning a food truck.  Obviously there’s exchange of food involved, but there’s a comradery in the struggle of food costs, licences and permits, customer relations good and bad, the list goes on and on.  Cucina Zapata is probably one of our newest friends, so go try them out!  They are located on 31st and ludlow on Drexel’s campus.

And I guess in a nutshell those are the basics of running a food truck and life at Sugar Philly.  Although quite the headache at times, there are always good moments that even out the bad.

As I am writing this, I am back at home in Long Island, New York(who said I was from the city?…) This is where I’ll be spending the remainder of my vacation with my family.

We will return to the streets on Tuesday, Sept 6th!  Until then, leave me alone!  Haha =)

By: dan @ 5:39pm
In: News
Aug 31, 2011

SP Work Vaca… Part 3

Back in the kitchen

Finally after 2 days of doing logistics in front of the computer and running errands, I can do what I like doing the most about my job, baking.

Kind of wild how it all started for me.  It all began with me moving into this apartment with some friends, some old bread, sharing what I made with people, and following the feeling that I made people happy.  And now its 7 – 8 years later.

Green tea buttercream anyone?

Actually, I should really correct my first statement, “I can do what I like doing the most about my job, baking.”  It’s really the second thing I like doing about my job, the first would serving everyone and seeing their lovely smile.

If you would like to make me happy in the truck, try smiling.  It certainly makes my day every time.

By: dan @ 4:05pm
In: News
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