I got an IM from my food buddy yesterday telling me they were planning to check out Calumet Fisheries, one of the places Anthony Bourdain visited while he filmed the Chicago episode of No Reservations. So I quickly said, “Sign us up!”. Let me start out by saying it’s not exactly in Chicago (in my [...]

Jared and I decided to partake in Earth Hour this year, though we probably didn’t do as good of a job of following it to a T.  Our original plan was to bike to the Shedd Aquarium and get a great panning shot of the Chicago skyline.  We checked the weather forecast a week earlier [...]

Jared had the urge to make a bacon lettuce avocado sandwich for lunch.  So he picked up an avocado, toasted some sliced wheat bread we’d frozen and fried up that bacon…  The fat from the bacon and the creamyness from avocado was so ridiculously good.  Definitely not for the faint of heart (literally!).   Worth. [...]

Normally most chicken stock recipes instruct you to throw away the chicken and vegetables- that’s because all of the flavor and nutrients have been simmered out into the stock. But I have always felt bad about throwing it all away so I told Jared to save some of the chicken and re-use it to make [...]

One of the best things you can do for your freezer/pantry is to make homemade chicken stock. I find it totally therapeutic (not really sure why). Your house smells glorious for a couple days. And the best part is that any dish you make tastes THAT much better with homemade chicken stock. A few years [...]