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Panda Fest Twin Cities | Bloomington, MN

Panda Fest Twin Cities Minnesota Food Review 2025 Hipster Hack blog
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I found out about Panda Fest about a month ago and immediately scooped up tickets for me and husband to go the weekend before our birthdays – food outings are sort of our tradition since we both love trying new things/places.

Panda Fest is happening until tomorrow, July 13th and it is currently sold out, but it looked like they were selling limited tickets at the gate and online some people are reselling if they can’t go so if you’re interested there is still time!

Read through to check out all the food items we tried and get my honest review about the experience.

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Buffalo Chicken Flatbread Casserole | Easy Recipe

Buffalo Chicken Flatbread Casserole Hipster Hack Recipe
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I’ve been an avid customer of Cut Da Carb flatbreads for a couple years, and one day I was trying to figure out an easy meal we could eat with chicken and threw this together. The excitement I felt when it actually tasted good was out of this world! I keep joking that this is a working title, but since I haven’t come up with anything better in the last 6 months it is what it is haha.

This recipe is in no ways groundbreaking, but it’s simple, has a big flavor, and keeps my carb intake low for my meal.

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Alfredo Chicken Crust Pizza | Easy Recipe

Alfredo Chicken Crust Pizza Hipster Hack Easy Recipe
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Ever since I was introduced to a Caesar Salad Chicken Crust Pizza this summer (you can find that recipe here) it has made frequent dinner appearances at our house. However, I’ve been wanting to push myself to try another variation so I was excited that my and husband’s experiment to create an Alfredo Chicken Crust Pizza was such a success – and it’s very easy!

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Sheet Pan Meal | Easy Recipe

Hipster Hack Recipe Minnesota Sheet Pan Hobo Meal
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I have been seeing a lot of meal prep people I follow on Instagram showcasing their sheet pan meals (or as husband calls them – “hobo meals”) and my body has been craving vegetables after a few weeks of pastas and fried foods so this felt like a great time to try it!

I’ll admit that husband cooked it, but I’m the one who planned and shopped for all the ingredients.

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Greek Pasta Salad | Easy Lower Carb Recipe

Hipster Hack Recipe Minnesota Greek Pasta Salad Low Carb
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I’ve been writing reviews of Minnesota restaurants and activities since 2014, but now that I don’t live in the city trying to keep up with the continual openings of new restaurants just isn’t as feasible, however I still love food and talking about food so I thought it would be fun to share some of the Tara-proof (aka easy recipes even I can’t screw up).

I promise not to lead in with paragraphs of background text. Other than this opening paragraph I’ll get right to it!!

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