The Sassies felt right at home at Rich’s Mighty Fine Burgers & Grub. We couldn’t wait to dive into the fat and juicy burgers. The menu selection was rather surprising, given the very low-key atmosphere of the restaurant, but Rich knows his burgers, and he certainly knows his toppings.

I know I was pleasantly surprised by the large variety of burgers, sandwiches and sides offered on the menu. And I can never get too much blue cheese. I hope none of the other Sassies saw me licking the Blue Cheese Crumble Fries dish clean or double-dipping on numerous occasions.

Rich’s Mighty Fine Burgers & Grub seems to be a big hit with the business crowd during the week, and Rich said that there is often a line outside the door. We were all surprised by how busy it was on a Saturday night, given that many of the surrounding businesses and buildings were closed. If people come in on their days off, you know that’s a testament to some good, quality food. We also had the pleasure to meet one of Rich’s original customers, who has been coming back for years.

Rich made the natural transition from what started off as a food cart to a restaurant, and he has continued plans to expand his restaurant business. The Sassies would be thrilled if he decided to move to the south end of the valley.

While the restaurant itself may not lend itself to sitting down to a meal with children, the food would most certainly be pleasing to any picky eater. And if you’re concerned about your child not getting enough vegetables, I think the deep fried green beans will help you meet your healthy food quota for the week.


So, the next time you are craving a nice, big, juicy burge, or just a serving of blue cheese, make sure you pop in to Rich’s Might Fine Burgers & Grub.

But don’t just take our word for it:

Rich’s Mighty Fine Burgers & Grub is giving TWO lucky SassyScoops.com readers a $20 gift certificate!

To enter this giveaway, just leave a comment below telling us what menu item you would like to try.

Additional entries:

1 entry ~ Follow @SassyScoops on Twitter and leave a comment telling us you did.

1 entry ~ “Like” SassyScoops on Facebook and leave a comment telling us you did.

1 entry ~ “Like” Rich’s Mighty Fine Burgers & Grub on Facebook and leave a comment telling us you did.

1 entry ~ Tweet about this giveaway with @SassyScoops and a link to this post and leave a comment with a link to your tweet.

1 entry ~ Update your Facebook status with a link to this giveaway and leave a comment telling us you did.

Giveaway ends Friday, June 24th, at midnight.

All SassyScoops winners are notified via email.

As you read from the Wednesday review of Schmidt’s Pastry Cottage, we all came away HUGE fans.  Ever since that night we’ve been dreaming of their eclairs, rolls, cookies and more.  Basically our bags are packed and we’re ready to move into Schmidt’s Pastry Cottage forever.

Turns out, you CAN buy happiness:

Fantasizing about three-tier cakes can be almost as enjoyable as eating them (fewer calories, that way, too):

While we did get to sample lots of tasties, we couldn’t eat everything in sight (major bummer):

However, we did get to take a yummy assortment home to savor… YAY!!!

And… {insert drumroll}… we get to share the baked delights of Schmidt’s Pastry Cottage with one VERY lucky reader!

Just comment for your chance to win a quarter sheet cake from Schmidt’s Pastry Cottage!!!

Winning would mean you could be the hero of your family; you could share your sheet cake with them and make their dreams come true.

… or it could be a “ticket for one” to the most fabulous tastebud adventure you’ve ever been on. It’s your choice (we won’t tell if you don’t want to share).

Either way, you better hurry and comment so you don’t miss this chance! Meanwhile, run on over to Schmidt’s Pastry Cottage for a quick sweet treat while you wait to find out if you’ve won!

P.S. You can find Schimdt’s online and on Facebook.

Cupcake bakeries have been making a name for themselves in Utah, but Cupcake Chic located in Springville, Utah really takes the cake!

As you can see here, no one was enjoying these delicious miniature cakes.

People could not shove them into their mouths fast enough!

Cupcake Chic offers 21 different flavors of cupcakes including Red Velvet, Peanut Butter, Raspberry Chocolate, Cinnamon Sugar and Key Lime Pie. The only thing that could make that selection better would be a Brad Pitt cupcake for Kalli.

Cupcake Chic in Utah caters for wedding, baptisms, mission farewells and homecomings, baby blessings, etc. I’m sure they would be willing to cater a “Dress Up as Your Favorite Twilight Character” book club night.  Not only are these cupcakes tasty, they don’t judge.

You can purchase Cupcake Chic cupcakes from Art City Coffee in Springville; Jaxies in Spanish Fork; Coffee Pod in Provo; The BYU Bookstore; and now at Tai Pan locations in Orem and Sandy. And don’t forget Cupcake Chic delivers to the MTC and BYU campus and to both Utah and Salt Lake Counties.  I have a feeling if you send your professor a dozen Cherry Chocolate cupcakes, he will not only give you an A but will suggest they rename the Marriott Center after you!

A dozen cupcakes are $25 and a dozen mini cupcakes are $15.

So forget the flowers that die in two days making your mom or wife sad and depressed or the massage that makes you all oily and sore the next day, and give your loved ones a dozen Cupcake Chic cupcakes for Mother’s Day or their birthday.  These cupcakes will ensure that you won’t get cut out of the will.

And don’t forget to visit Cupcake Chic on Facebook and Twitter.

It’s GIVEAWAY TIME:

One lucky reader is going to win a dozen of Cupcake Chic’s assorted cupcakes to savor!

It is easy to enter.  Just leave a comment expressing how much you want to win.

But that’s not all…

You can earn EXTRA entries:

2 entries-Tweet about this giveaway and include a link to your tweet in the comments.

2 entries-Facebook about this giveaway and include a link to your update in comments.

5 entries-Blog about this giveaway and include a link to your post in comments.

Good luck!  This giveaway will end on Friday, April 16th at Midnight!!!

THE GIVEAWAY WINNER WAS MOLLY, THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED.

After spending something like 7 years of my life working in a few different offices, I can tell you that I’ve experienced my fair share of catered lunches.  There’s nothing like choking down a soggy sandwich made hours before, accompanied by a droopy salad drenched in who knows what.  Not exactly appetizing to say the least.  All of the Sassies were grateful that this all too familiar scenario was definitely NOT the case for our lunch at the Utah Museum of Natural History provided by Red Butte Cafe Catering in Salt Lake City, UT.

The sandwiches were large, large enough you had to mash them down just to take a bite, not a problem for someone like me whose mouth is ginormous enough to handle such things.  The bread on my sandwich was some variety of whole wheat and tasted good, there was a healthy amount of fresh toppings, and my favorite part: the dressing was left on the side to be added at your own discretion.  Because let’s be honest, there’s nothing worse in this world than a soggy sandwich.  Accompanying these tasty sandwiches was their crazy Greek pasta salad that I’ll be honest, made me a little nervous to look at what with all of the different genres of pasta, veggies cheese and meat going on there.  Like Evonne said, there were some crazy textures happening and it was certainly nothing we’d ever seen before, but it ended up coming together in a perfect combination of flavors, even my 15 month old dug it and he’s a tough customer.

In conclusion, the sandwiches were large and tasty, the salad surprising and flavorful.  Throw in some kettle chips and cookies from My Dough Girl and I’d say you’ve got all the deliciousness of a successful catered lunch.  Well done Red Butte Cafe and thanks a million for catering to the Sassies!  Perhaps next time I’m in the area I’ll stop by and sample the rest of your menu, my interest has certainly been piqued.

You interested too?

You can find Red Butte Cafe at :

1414 Red Butte Drive Suite C

(in the Foothill Village Shopping Center)

Salt Lake City, UT

(801)  581-9498

Note: You’ll want to read this review in its entirety or you’ll miss out on an exclusive promotion David is offering SassyScoops.com readers! Also, the page takes a second to load due to the videos so please be patient. Thanks!

Okay, so not all of David C. Schultz’s photo shoots take place in subzero temperatures but those are the ones we enjoyed hearing about since those are the ones with the best stories. I’d love to retell some of his arctic exploits in this post but I wouldn’t do them justice. There’s something in the way he tells about the constant rocking of a Russian icebreaker that makes you feel like you’re there, seasickness and all. How David continues to enjoy those adventures is beyond me, but I’m sure glad he does because he snaps some amazing photographs in the middle of that icy nowhere.

Here’s a look into his gallery, West Light Images; his sidekick Koda (who, by the way, has his very own window overlooking Main Street–see photo above as proof); and a few playful polar bears:
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As for those expeditions on Russian icebreakers, I just don’t think David was selling it. Perhaps if he’d left out the part about the hungry polar bears and the injuries from the boat’s rocking I might have considered signing up for the next one. (Okay, Mom, you can stop laughing hysterically now.) Here’s David telling us just how much fun those month-long photos shoots can be. By the way, Flip cameras are great but the sound isn’t always the best. You’ll have to crank up the volume just a bit. (And yes, that’s a polar bear skull in the background):
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We really had a wonderful time visiting with David and oohing and aahing over his beautiful photography, and believe it or not, not all his photos have snow in the background. You simply must visit his online gallery to view his collection…and then you simply must head to Park City and see them in all their glory. It’s definitely worth the drive, and if you’re lucky you’ll catch a glimpse of Koda in the window.

Here are a few of my other favorite shots from the evening. Thanks again to Brooke, one of our guest Sassies, who took these photos:

Where the framing magic takes place

Proof that David has a great sense of humor

My very first (and definitely not my last) David Schultz print

Scoops up, readers!

David is offering SassyScoops.com readers an exclusive—and truly wonderful—promotion!

Our readers will receive 25% off their order if they use the code “Sassy” online or mention this SassyScoops.com review when visiting West Light Images gallery in Park City.

This is a seriously fabulous offer and it’s only good through October 31st, 2009. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to own a truly breathtaking work of art (or two). Pssst…a David Schultz print would make a perfect gift for the holidays!

I like to think of myself as a cupcake connoisseur of sorts.  I can detect the subtle nuances of flavor, the hint of a berry in a frosting, the proper use of vanilla in the batter.  After visiting Sweet Tooth Fairy my world has been turned upside-down.  Everything I thought I *knew* as true and right about cupcakes?  Gone my friends, gone.

The Sweet Tooth Fairy Bake Shop {1227 south university avenue Provo, Utah}  is nestled in-between some big box stores in an uninspired strip mall but once you walk inside, all is forgotten.  It’s like a little slice of hipster dessert heaven right here in Utah Valley, wafting delicious bakery smells out to the masses of passersby.

Ingredients for such delectables as the chocolate covered Oreos and Cake Bites {swoon} are the freshest available, and desserts are made daily so the compromise of flavor isn’t even a possibility.

I assure you if you’re even in the neighborhood, and even if you’re not, you absolutely must visit Sweet Tooth Fairy.  You won’t regret it, even if your hips will.

Visiting  Ten Thousand Villages was a fabulous trip and all of us will be back! Everyone walked out with items from the store that had a beautiful story behind them and now are very special in our homes. The three of us who reviewed Ten Thousand Villages wanted to show you our favorite item we purchased and why. Be sure to check out the preview post for Ten Thousand Villages where you can hear more about the mission behind the store from the store’s director. In a nutshell Ten Thousand Villages is a shop that carries fair-trade goods purchased from oppressed, struggling people all around the world.

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Quinn’s purchase

“I immediately fell in love with this Kirsii love knot which comes from an African tradition symbolizing the connection of a man & wife and their love lasting as long as the stone from which the love knot was carved.  I gave it as a gift to my brother & sister-in-law who recently suffered a heart-breaking miscarriage.  The knot really meant a lot to them.”

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Alma’s purchase

“This charming bird attracted my attention because 1) I am a bird watcher and 2) chimes remind me of summers at my grandparents’ home. When I bought it, I felt like I was really making a difference by supporting a real person instead of a big industry.”

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Vanessa’s purchase

“Well what in my house is NOT from Ten Thousand Villages should be the question. I pulled just a few things from around the house and my girls and I did a video for you to see some of our favorite items:

Today is YOUR lucky today because we are giving you the chance to win a $50 Gift Certificate from Ten Thousand Villages. Just comment below for the chance to win! If you tweet about it, you will get a second entry. Just add the tweet’s URL in a separate comment. Good luck!

THE GIVEAWAY WINNER WAS EVONNE, THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED!

I do!! After last week’s Salt City Derby Girls game, I’m hooked! I’m ready for quad skates, funky pink argyle socks, and a stylin’ helmet to protect me from those killer crashes!

Here’s some video of these Derby Girls in action and an interview with “China White” from the Leave it to Cleaver team!

It was a great night, a double header with the teams Death Dealers vs. Sisters of No Mercy, then Leave it to Cleavers vs. Bomber Babes. The point of the game is to get the “jammer” (star helmet skater) to pass the other team’s blockers the first time around, then back around to pass them all again, and she gets a point for each person she passes. There’s a lot of pushing, shoving, and skating round and round in circles.

You even get to pick your own Derby Girl name. Maybe I could be the “Sassy Scooper” or “Scoopin’ Sass”! But first I need take skate lessons from Axta Grind!

Here’s me with Brew Haha, the President of the league. But I need to work on my stare down! With my cheesy smile, maybe I don’t have what it takes to Derby… Brew looks soooo tough!

Giveaway: Salt City Derby Girl Tickets!

So if you’re ready to watch the next Derby Girl Bout, you’re in for a treat. Salt City Derby Girls is giving away 2 pairs of tickets to the next bout, June 27th. 2 winners who can each take a friend! To enter, Leave a comment on this post by Thursday June 25th at midnight for your chance to win a pair of Derby Girls tickets for Saturday night’s game! If you tweet about it, you will get a second entry, just add the Tweets URL in a second comment. We’ll announce the winner from random on Friday June 26th. Good luck and happy skating!

The winner was Evonne, this giveaway is now closed!