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Episode 1: The Perfect Steak

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MARCH | APRIL | MAY [2011 A.D.]

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Dear RED Fan, Spring has sprung. The flowers are in bloom. A whole new world awaits us -- graduating college seniors. Many of us will be starting our first real career job or an exciting new internship. Time to tighten up our look, our living space and our en-tertaining style. In this issue, we focus on creating a whole new you. Designing that fabulous living room that doesn’t bust the budget, but says we’re chic and all grown up. Serving a Sunday brunch that’s not only sophisticat-ed, but also a delicious way to entertain our new friends. And creating a professional dress style that will make our new co-workers notice – in a good way.

Hope you enjoy the issue!Ryan Elliott Dennis

Contents

It’s time for some dessert. Don’t worry, this is an inno-cent pleasure. Chef Ryan Dennis shows us how bak-ing and eating can be a slim and trim win. Full recipe included for one of the most genius and decadent treats available in this dimension. Don’t miss a word, or a bite.

What’s good for this weekend? Make sure it’s a complete blast. The hottest mall in Hampton Roads is the final destination for all of your shopping needs. Whether you’re balling from wall to wall or window shopping, MacArthur is a joy for the entire family.

You’ve got company. They’re hungry. What’s at stake is the tone and character of the perfect steak. Culture your presentation with the same creativity you wear on your sleeve. Style has never been so delicious.

You know, color is everything. When you’re pick-ing out your next outfit, make sure it’s the color of your mood. Pinpoint the mindset of success with the clear-eyed experience of one fashion obsessed positivist.

Steak & Style -- Page 4

Dappered -- Page 6

Reinvent Delicious -- Page 8

MacArthur Center Mall -- Page 9

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~Beaulieu Vineyards~Perfecting perfect since 1900.

A D V E R T I S E M E N TThe Red Meat

This steak has been oveer the fire just long enough to sear it and heat it. All the natural juiced are sealed in and the color in the center is still a bright red but what’s most important is that the meat is no longer raw.

After still longer grilling, the characteristic red color of the beef is now gone. The steak is less juicy and thinner. Long barbecuing has cooked out some of the natural juices.

After still longer grilling, the

Steak&StyleThe Red Meat

Address Your Love And dress Your steAk

By: Ryan Dennis

Cooking is serious. Just ask Food Network. Style is se-rious, too. Ask Kanye West. Food and fashion, like music, are inte-gral parts of how all people live their daily lives. So how do these two connect as art forms? Everyone has their particulars when it comes to taste. Some like their clothes bright and loud to show off their personality. Oth-ers flex a gloomier shade for their wardrobe to keep it stealthy. Your food is not so different. Everyone has that friend who makes all of their food hot. And everyone has that friend who simply detests spicy flavors. It’s all good in our ‘hood. Today is the day you’re going to let your heart decide. The first rule of making steak is attitude. If you’re feeling classy and positive, try out a rare cook. I am a firm believer that the best steaks in the world should be able to taste great rare. Therefore, if you threw a pretty penny on your ribeye, you’ll be able to tell be-cause most of the authentic flavor will lie in the rare stage. And re-member, the best part of cooking your steak rare is that you can al-ways throw it back on the grill if you want a little less pink. If you’re in a sunshine-y day type of mood, it might be a well-done type of day. A well-done steak takes more chewing but is more enjoyable when cooked and eaten outside. For me, making steak is an occa-sion and as such should be taken very seriously.

Steak is the favorite food of Americans of all ages. That’s how it’s been since the first prime streer came off the Midwest ranches. There are many ways to cook up a delicious T-bone, but charcoal broiling has been the preferred way to prepare steaks for a while now. Some conoisseurs, self-ap-pointed or elected, shudder at the thought of cooking steak beyond the rare stage. Frankly that’s my choice. I like steak with a “just cooked” flavor and a nice, red color (obviously). But to each his/her own. So cook steaks the way you and your guests like them. I’ve found over the years that steak meals are the perfect time to really get to know someone. Liv-ing in a generation that considers Ruby Tuesday’s to be cuisine, (I actually love Ruby’s) it’s hard to get a great group of your friends sitting down all at once. A few sir-loins can truly slow down the pace of your rushed daily experience and help you create those nos-talgic memories you love to look back on. Good eats!

Rich and Rare

Happy Medium

Done Right

With longer grilling, the steak loses some of the bright red color but still retains all the natural juices. This is my favorite level. It depends what mood I’m in, but you can never go wrong with this classic cook job.

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The Red Meat

A D V E R T I S E M E N T

E k c o Knives

& Cutlery

“the definition of sharp.”

The perfectsteak

Starts with

The Perfect Cut.

Dappered

”The best color in the world is the one that looks good on you.” - Coco Chanel

Maybe, you ask, “but how do I know what colors looks good on me?”

Easy. Wear what reflects your mood. Your outfit will reflect your inside. This is how the right outfit can give you the most powerful outlook.Everyday.

At first I was thinking that my color choices would initiate my daily energy. I would choose a color scheme that would give me a positive attitude for the day. These days my mind has changed. After weeks of depending on an outfit to control my power, I realize I was losing a grasp on my style. Your clothes should reflect you everyday. It should not ever be the other way around. I also realized how important is for me to enjoy each color in my reper-toire. This is why I always surround myself with colors - starting from my outfit and ending with any other object I buy. And now I’m exploring combinations I’d never fathomed. My imagination is growing brighter and brighter everyday because I’m spending more and more time becoming a more wholesome me. I’d love to hear what your favorite combos are. What’s your favorite color and why? You know mine. Let’s speak in colors!

By: Ryan Dennis

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Great tastes great when cake meets flakes.

Layers of genius rendevous within Nya’s Red Carpet Cake.

Chopped pieces of heath bar dipped in red apple dye hide beneath a

frosting of cream cheese perfection.

Texture ecstasy runs rampant with every forklift.

Now that’s a secret worth keeping.

Whipped Dreams


1. After cake is cooked and cooled completely, crumble into large bowl.

2. Mix thoroughly with 1 can cream cheese frosting. (It may be easier to use fin-gers to mix together, but be warned it will get messy.)

3. Roll mixture into quar-ter size balls and lay on cookie sheet. (Should make 45-50. You can get even more if you use a mini ice cream scooper.

• 1 box red velvet cake mix (cook as directed on box for 13 x 9 cake)• 1 can cream cheese frosting (16 oz.)• 1 package chocolate bark (regular or white chocolate)• 12 inches of wax paper• One Positive Attitude

reinvent delicious

It’s Your Turn. Here’s How:

The Love Starts Here

4. Chill for several hours. (You can speed this up by put-ting in the freezer.)

5. Melt chocolate in micro-wave per directions on pack-age.

6. Roll balls in chocolate and lay on wax paper until firm. (Use a spoon to dip and roll in chocolate and then tap off extra.)

What You’ll Need:

Chugs and KissesBy: Ryan Dennis

There is nothing like a fresh snack. Not fresh as in hip, cool, or whatever other word I can not use to define myself. I am talking about clean, airy, healthy and just plain wholeseome. Chugs and Kisses does exactly that with every dish. Only days ago, during my visit with the company’s headquarters, I came across dozens of snacks, delicacies, cakes and bakes. Nothing stood up against their world-famous Red Velvet Balls. Three words: Yum, yum, yum! No matter who you are, or where you’re from, one taste and you’re hooked for life. The organic milk chocolate outside, which melts in your mouth, would be a treat all

its own. But the quality of the red super-soft inside will make you feel guilty. It, like many of Chugs’ tasty productions are homemade treasures with a hint upper echelon class. It is almost unfair how easily and joyously they produce some of those most delectable foods avail-able to human beings. Their bakery is rather large with its archictecture modern. The aura of each room in their elementary school sized build-ing is pleasant. The smiles of the faculty members says it all: these people enjoy, no, love what they do. How could they not? They eat better than the First Lady herself. Speak-ing of which, Chugs and Kisses were the official dessert caterers for the White House for an entire week.

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Dennis Richardson assisted the Taubman Company in the construction and development of the MacArthur Center Mall, an 1,200,000 square foot upscale mall and two adjacent parking structures containing 5,300 spaces. The Mall was completed in 1999.

MacArthur Center MallMy favorite part of the mall is the people I see. They are trudging under-sized bags read-ing over-sized ads around. The diversity of departments compli-ments the differences of style I see in many of I see trudging bags around. Please don’t get me wrong, I do adore small businesses because of their services along with their vi-tal empowerment of the economy. But on this day, I fell prey to one of my innocently guilty pleasures—megastore shopping. For those HBCU’ers who aren’t familiar with the real H.U. and our low-key, remote yet dope neighboring community, let me enlighten thee. Sure, Hampton is our home by the sea but Hampton Roads County without Norfolk is like New York without Brooklyn. I’d say Virginia Beach is like our Manhattan. Off to Norfolk we go. The day is Sunday and the mall is MacArthur. Over-sized ve-hicles rove garage levels without direction. A young woman man-ages her bank account transfers on her Smartphone. This prompts me to flip out my wallet to tally up my collegiate chump change. Not much is inside. At any rate, we’re raring to go and ready to shop. I’m usually pretty steady on my feet but I nearly stumble on a be-fallen chair from the food court while entering the mall. The out of place furniture awakes something in me. I’m now realizing how or-derly these establishments usually are. Cue an epiphany; the best part about shopping malls isn’t their colossal collections but their crisp cleanliness.

These super-stores harbor thou-sands of shoppers and staffers who roam through theircorridors day in and night out. Considering the magnitude of janitorial work that goes into a mall; cleanliness seems effortless. Spend three hours in a three-level mall and see maybe one custodian. I’m only wondering how. Come to find out they actually hire academy-trained ninja custodians who snatch up garbage and shoplift-ers alike. How elaborate can you get?

there is one golden shopping mall rule: You don’t ever leave the mall empty-handed. Although, you do not have to spend any money to take home something of value. May-be you were cultivating your sense of fashion, perusing the trends of your community, or simply getting some exercise. Leaving with a posi-tive contemplation is imperative. One should always exit with the peace of mind that you spent time your time wisely at an economi-cally important, culturally relevant and at least pretty clean place. I am remembering that time is money and at the very least I’d been spend-ing my time valuably. Appreciation is an ever-present and fulfilling gift you can always offer to yourself—free of charge. •

Take a Peek

Getting to Know Your New Go-To Spot

“A crawl through the mall, all in all,

is a ball for us all.”

By: Ryan Dennis

That was a jest. Some people do not go shopping often. I’m usually one of those people. Regardless of how much money is missing in my wallet,

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Match healthy with delicious, you’ll get nutritious.

Match nutritious with affordable, you’ll get Whole Foods Market.

Don’t be shy. We’ve got plenty to share.

Locations:Old Town127.4 miles northwestWhole Foods Market1700 Duke StAlexandria, Virginia 22314

Springfield129 miles northwestWhole Foods Market8402 Old Keene Mill RdSpringfield, Virginia 22152

Arlington133.5 miles northwestWhole Foods Market2700 Wilson BlvdArlington, Virginia 22201


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