On Wednesday night, I was lucky enough to have the meal of my life. There were 21 courses of remarkable food, and while most of them were something I could never in a million years hope to recreate, there was one that I knew I could attempt. This one: I knew I couldn’t try the [...]
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**Have you voted for my Wonderful POMcakes today?** A word of advice: when your husband/fiance/boyfriend/significant other offers to cook dinner for you on a weeknight, JUST SAY YES! I came home today, and Adam had gone to the grocery store and purchased all the ingredients for a delicious dinner. Just what I needed after the [...]
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Have you voted today for my Wonderful POMcakes? Before I moved in with Adam, I lived in this wonderful neighborhood on the northwest side of Chicago. It was notoriously a Polish neighborhood, but its true appeal lay in who lived a mere few blocks away. Lizz (and infant Skylar) and our good friend Greg lived [...]
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Needless to say, it’s been a little challenging in past weeks to get my cooking mojo back. You may have noticed that there have been more baking recipes, more simple “throw-together” type meals… and that’s for good reason. I think my creative button is broken. Never fear, it will be back. But, in the mean [...]
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After our last meeting, the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pans decided to go for a different kind of theme. Instead of choosing a country or a region, we went with something we all knew and loved: family recipes. It was a little bit difficult for me to think of something to make since so many [...]
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***Thank you all again, for your votes for me on Project Food Blog! Voting ends on September 23!*** Back in high school, Lizz and I had a fairly out of control obsession with the song of the moment, as most high school girls do. However, this song wasn’t the “it” song by the cute boy [...]
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Ok, I promise, this is the last birthday-related post since, well, my birthday was almost a week ago. On Saturday night, a group of my closest friends and family joined Adam and I at Gilt Bar, a new gastropub here in Chicago. I’d heard a few great things about it in recent months, but the [...]
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Happy Wednesday all! Hope you’ve had a great day… I definitely did, and am quite exhausted. You’ll see exactly why in a minute! I’m glad to see you’ve all liked the return of Wednesday in Numbers, so I’ll keep with it for the next 8 weeks, if you don’t mind. 209: Campers in attendance today [...]
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I can remember being in elementary school and very very rarely buying school lunch. Usually, I brought my nut butter (sometimes peanut, sometimes almond, sometimes cashew) with preserves (sometimes apricot, sometimes strawberry, NEVER grape) on whole wheat bread, fruit, and graham crackers most days. There were, however, the occasional school lunch days when I just [...]
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