After a long day at camp, I want simple food. Case and point: I had tuna salad last night. Tonight, I threw some skirt steak in some lime juice, salt, and pepper and grilled it. I sliced up avocados. I mixed some mayo with adobo from a can of chipotle peppers. I grilled the steak. [...]
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This was dinner. Behold the best Reuben in the world: I’m betting the 1.2 lbs I lost as of this morning have reappeared as water weight right… about… now.
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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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**VOTING IS NOW OPEN!!!** As soon as I read the prompt for FoodBuzz Project Food Blog Challenge #4, I was intimidated. The challenge prompted us to use photography to show the process of a recipe using photos, taking what could potentially be a complex recipe and breaking it down into steps using photography. I’m not [...]
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I will absolutely never forget the first time I had a Monte Cristo sandwich. I believe I was in 6th grade, so about 11 years old, and just rediscovering how fun it is to be adventurous with food. Later that same year, I nixed red meat from my diet for about 15 years, but that’s [...]
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So where did we leave off when I left you all drooling at my photos from the market yesterday? Didn’t catch yesterday’s post? I’ll give you a minute to go read it…or rather, look at the photos. I left you with these teasers: Thanks to the sponsorship of I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter [...]
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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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Sometimes, I go to the grocery store with the best intentions. “Yeah, I’m going to pick out some stuff that looks great, and cook dinner tonight” even though it was eleventy thousand degrees today, and I’m exhausted. Sometimes I think I’m going to pick up some shortcuts, but still really cook a meal myself. You [...]
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I’d been looking forward to June 26 for a long time. Besides the fact that it was my dad’s birthday (happy late birthday Dad!), it was the scheduled night for our bi-monthly meeting of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pans! We decided at our last meeting that our next culinary stop would be Latin America, [...]
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I’ve talked a few other times about “recipe trust”. You know, those people that, when they send you a recipe, you know it must be tried? I’ve got a few people that I trust unconditionally when it comes to recipes. Well, my mom is one of those people. I don’t know that there’s ever been [...]
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