Oh, hello there!  I guess you’ve come to read about the final courses of my dinner at Alinea!  Fabulous.  If you missed the first two parts, click here for part one and click here for part two.  Now, enough with the small talk- let’s get on with the show! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post [...]

At the moment, my life is almost entirely made up of contradictions and ridiculousness.  One minute I’m eating expensive gourmet chocolate in my living room, and the next minute I’m heading out to Tuesday night bowling league and drinking dollar Bud Lights.  A few months ago, I’m at a Roadkill Cook-Off in West Virginia, and [...]

I would love to be able to say that I made this baklava myself.  I would love to say that a strapping Greek man (preferably John Stamos) came to my house and taught me how to layer the delicate phyllo dough, grind up the nuts, and create the sticky-sweet syrup.  Then we would sensuously drizzle [...]

After I posted my Hostess Fruit Pie post about a month ago, I found an email in my inbox from Mr. Onion.  He asked if I had tried Hubig’s fruit pies, which are apparently the patron pies of New Orleans.  Being a Chicagoan, I hadn’t, so Mr. Onion insisted on sending me some.  I never [...]

When I was in London a couple of months ago, I thought I was being extremely clever when I went to Borough Market and bought a small jar of dulce de leche.  I paid about $7 for it, I packed it nicely in my suitcase, and I toted it home like it was given to [...]

I have not been to the gym in something like 2 1/2 months.  First it was the stress from leaving my job, then it was my European trip, now it’s the stress of the new dog…basically I’m an excuse-spitting couch potato.  Which is why I was positively dreading today.  What is today?  Oh, just the [...]

After leaving Scotland, it was time for Dan and me to go to London and do something incredibly English.  So English that it makes me want to screw up my face, stick out my teeth, and do my worst British accent.  We had afternoon tea.  And not only that, but we had it at the [...]

I realize that this is a departure from my list of foods, but when I stumbled across this blog post early this week, I knew I had to participate.  Jennie, from In Jennie’s Kitchen just lost her husband, a father of two little girls.  I’m not sure exactly what happened, but it seems like it [...]

Y’know what today is?  National S’more Day!  Y’know what I did last weekend?  Went camping!  Y’know what I ate?  A shit ton of s’mores!  How wonderfully perfect.  The s’more is one of the best American creations of all time. I remember the first time I introduced s’mores to my British friends; their eyes lit up [...]

For dinner tonight, I made myself a Greek salad.  I picked some plump ripe tomatoes and tossed them with crisp sliced cucumber, crunchy Romaine lettuce, beautiful black olives, and feta cheese.  I then drizzled it with a reduced-fat Greek dressing.  After I ate this delicious and nutritious meal, I took three oversized scoops of vanilla [...]