Oh snap. So Jared recently bartered his PS3 for a knife (+ cash) from Chef Brian Wong. Ok, this is not just any knife, this is a Watanabe 240mm White Steel Yanagi (sashimi knife), custom made from Japan. (Excuse the garish low quality website. It does not reflect the awesomeness that is this knife). For [...]

Day 2 of our seafood weekend brought us more of… you guessed it… seafood! Jared made two dishes- Seared Scallops and Shrimp ‘n Grits for dinner. To tie the two dishes together, he used some jalañeno peppers that our neighbor had given us. I didn’t know this before, but apparently the jalañeno turns bright red [...]

Ok, I really should know by now that when Jared calls and says “I’m going to stop by H-mart before I go home” that this should be translated to “I’m going to spend a lot of money on seafood”.  Because we all know what happened the last time.  By the time I got home from [...]

We’ve been living in this neck of the woods for over a year and were surprised we never made our way down to Chicago’s Home of Chicken and Waffles. We first heard about it on Check Please! Since fried chicken is one of Jared’s favorite food groups, it was inevitable that we would be dining [...]

Ladies and gentlemen, we just came back from a complete whirlwind of an evening. A couple weeks ago Foodbuzz, our sponsors, sent out an email inviting the Chicago featured publishers to enter into a drawing to win a seat at a foodie community dinner at Tru restaurant. WHAT. We have been wanting to go there [...]