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Twenty-Six 2008-08-25 06:00:06 Even though today is my official birthday, Saturday celebrations began with breakfast at Meli Cafe in Greektown/West Loop, which, conveniently, is located on the main street of that neighborhood, right where the Greek Festival would be taking place that afternoon and night.
As we walked up from the bus stop, various vendors—of all things from knock-off [...]
Biscotti, and Me 2008-08-22 06:25:23 A little over two years ago, about to stand up for a friend’s wedding, I agreed to make homemade biscotti for the favors, to be placed in perfect little white drawstring pouches and given to guests at the reception. There were something like 200 guests—or 100, and each bag got two?—and I’d never made that [...]
Of Memory, the Gift 2008-08-20 06:00:44 In Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, he tells the story of in his childhood, going to bed while his parents were throwing parties, unable to fall asleep, waiting for his mother to come say good night to him. Sometimes he’d still be awake when she’d come, and she’d give him a madeleine, that sweet [...] Read more:Memory
Egg Harbor Cafe(s) 2008-08-18 05:00:59 If, under some sort of food tyranny, I were forced to choose only one of the three meals in a day, ever after to eat solely breakfast, lunch or dinner, I wouldn’t flinch: breakfast.
Don’t get me wrong: a great pizza pie or an amazing cookie are practically food groups unto themselves, and I’d miss them. [...] Read more:Harbor
Martha can bake, peach cookies 2008-08-15 07:25:12 They say there’s something about blogging that makes people want to confess things, to bear their souls as if to a private diary, to admit things they wouldn’t normally say out loud. So it’s maybe no surprise that I feel I must tell you, dear readers, a rather alarming fact about myself: I am no [...] Read more:Martha
The Easiest, Tastiest Chicken Parm 2008-08-14 07:58:41 It’s so easy to love Italian food. The recipes are all about emphasizing the flavors of natural ingredients: mozzarella, ripe tomatoes, fresh basil. And, mostly, they aren’t hard. Put together enough really, really good ingredients, and you’ll end up with something equally good or better.
One of my favorite Italian dishes, chicken parmesan, really isn’t difficult [...] Read more:Chicken
Cafe Buonaro’s 2008-08-13 06:00:09 On the first floor of Fifth Avenue Station, tucked behind the elevators that lead to upper offices and loft apartments, Cafe Buonaro’s is a rare find in downtown Naperville, just steps from the Metra: it’s a family-owned Italian restaurant, and it’s not a chain.
Everyone in the suburbs seems to know Naperville, ranked by Money Magazine [...]
Sending Warm Thoughts, and This 2008-09-16 20:50:34 Seattle or London would be nice places to live, I’ve thought many rainy days, what with the foggy, wet weather most of the year, the green, green grass and trees. When we have rainy weather here in Chicago, and this year we have had it a lot, I am the type to tell you, [...] Read more:Sending
to slow down 2008-09-15 06:00:08 I like the kitchen best when I’m alone, usually at night, when the house is quiet and the phones aren’t ringing and I can take as long as I want to chop, stir, clean up. It’s comforting, this opportunity to organize, create, make something delicious and satisfying from a mix of individual ingredients. And it’s [...]
Trust & Cooking 2008-09-12 06:17:22 One of the fringe benefits of starting a food blog, I’m finding, is that people start to think you can cook. Even my mom, herself Chef Extraordinaire, asked if she could e-mail me recipes from time to time. (This is high praise, indeed.)
She told me the other day that she never expected this, me to [...]
[apologies, again] 2008-09-10 06:00:07 And this is not a story about my Saturday baking, which I was looking forward to all Friday, knowing I’d have an entire day with nothing planned and free reign of the kitchen all to myself. It’s not about the new recipes I wanted to try, including the cookies that were to have been made [...]
The Restaurant I Won’t Tell You about 2008-09-08 06:00:17 This is not a post about the new Greek restaurant I tried Friday night or the way that we found it, driving down a Naperville road we didn’t remember, hungry and finding every other restaurant packed. Nor about the olive-skinned man who greeted us inside, wearing large black glasses like Woody Allen’s and matching black [...]
Stollen in September 2008-09-05 06:00:44 There’s a chill in the air in Chicago, a hopeful, exciting chill that hints of fall and golden leaves and hot, frothy drinks that you sip while wearing cozy sweaters. Wednesday, as I walked out of work, I breathed in the fresh, crisp breeze and caught the smell of something baking—doughnuts? bread? And as I [...] Read more:September
Rosemary Cookies from Heaven 2008-09-03 06:00:50 If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s fakeness. Hate me, ignore me, laugh at me, whatever—as long as you’re being honest and you mean it. Just don’t, please, if you have any heart, don’t put on for me. Don’t tell me you like A when you hate A. Don’t tell me you do B [...] Read more:Rosemary
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French Fries You Should Eat 2008-10-03 06:00:28 Well, as promised, I’m still high on fall. I’ve been sipping hot apple ciders all week and cuddling in my blankets, the windows open, at night. Pretty soon, I’m hitting an apple orchard with two of my friends and co-workers, and I’m already dreaming of the apple cider doughnuts and pumpkins I will buy. How [...] Read more:French
Cookies on the Way! 2008-10-01 07:59:30 You can’t spend much time with me at all without being offered a few cookies I just baked. This you know, either from experience or hearing it all the time. Truth is, I like giving people cookies more than almost any other food. And, armed with my birthday KitchenAid mixer, I’ve been baking cookies so [...] Read more:Cookies
And finally, it’s fall. 2008-09-29 08:00:21 Autumn is the kind of season that needs to be savored. Don’t you think? My sincere apologies to anyone who doesn’t live somewhere with a pronounced seasonal change, who doesn’t get to watch the greens turn to yellows and crimsons, doesn’t feel the crisp October air. It’s probably one my favorite things about the world. [...]
Red Mango, downtown Naperville 2008-09-26 08:00:14 When you go to Red Mango
in downtown Naperville, by all means sample the Green Tea frozen yogurt. It’s one of two kinds available (the other being Original) and sounds absolutely refreshing, especially on a hot day like it was on the afternoon of the Riverwalk Art Fair. Just walking down the street had me [...]
Ginger Cookies, Big & Soft Style 2008-09-24 06:00:07 When I started this site almost two months ago, I made a couple rules for myself: 1) No posting on weekends, 2) Post at least three times a week and 3) Recipes, restaurant reviews and stories—that’s it.
Now, it seems we’ve settled into a rhythm, you and I, with my rules holding things in tact. I’m [...] Read more:Cookies
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And, Apples. 2008-10-21 06:00:26 Sunday afternoon, some friends and I drove out to the country, where on either side of the highway, green acres stretch as far as you can see. There was a lot of talk about farms, about milking cows, about which of us would be first to admit the whole country-living thing sounds appealing. (Personally, I [...] Read more:Apples
The Oak Park Farmers’ Market 2008-10-20 06:00:47 Not quite a year ago, I almost moved to Oak Park. And now, even though I think it was the right decision not to go, every now and then, I think of what it might have been like to live there, especially when I have weekends like this last one.
Saturday morning, I met my friend/once-roommate [...] Read more:Market
Speechless 2008-10-17 06:01:12 Well, I don’t really know what to say. This is one of the posts where, because the photos are so pretty and the cookies taste so good, I almost feel powerless to complement them. I made them Saturday, as in almost a week ago, and I have been trying to create complete sentences about them [...] Read more:Speechless
On Bedtime Snacks 2008-10-15 22:29:22 When I was little, spending the night at my grandma’s, I used to hate to go to bed. (As I sit here typing this, it’s hard to remember what that felt like.) Grandma, the crafty woman that she was, had many tricks up her sleeve to help convince me to sleep. For one, she went [...] Read more:Bedtime
Takeout Worth Trying 2008-10-15 06:00:07 Within the first few hours I spent in Athens, I got some chicken souvlaki from a fast-food stand—was it called Pita Pan?—for a few dollars, and, maybe it was the jet lag or the excitement, but that pita was the best thing I’d eaten in a long while, char-grilled marinated meat on soft pita, with [...] Read more:Worth
Say This for It 2008-11-13 06:10:58 The one good thing about being sick is getting well again, seeing with new eyes all you took for granted. After gingerly eating unbuttered toast, applesauce and chicken noodle soup, you foray back into the world of food, beginning with more substantial soups and buttered rolls, then moving to small portions of meatloaf or candied [...]
Raincheck? 2008-11-09 17:09:48 Saturday night, with the best of intentions, I treated my brother to a belated birthday dinner in Lincoln Park, and before leaving the place, I had become so sick, I’d even made an emergency visit to the men’s room when the ladies’ was occupied and things had gotten, well, urgent. (A consoling factor, perhaps, [...]
For All Its Faults 2008-11-07 04:00:22 I know it would be easy to think things are all happy and cookies around here. But between you and me, I have a hard time with this time of year, when the days darken an hour before I leave work and we gear up for the long (snowy! icy! bitter cold!) winter. There are [...]
On America 2008-11-04 05:00:54 Yesterday, on my lunch break, I stopped at the post office to mail a package to Amie, my solider for this month’s Operation Baking Gals project. (My host is Lan, who has posted about the project and our servicewoman here.) Normally, I might save this post for another day, maybe when the election and our [...] Read more:America
Begin with Pumpkin 2008-11-03 07:00:02 My friend Becky has never tasted pumpkin. Not one Thanksgiving pie. Not one muffin or fresh-baked bread. And between us, she must be terribly sorry she ever admitted this to me, not just because she is now the subject of this blog post, but for the responses it’s garnered: “How can you never have had [...] Read more:Pumpkin
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