The Greenhouse Project was fully funded. Congratulations to Autre Monde! I am so excited to watch the greenhouse come to life and enjoy what is produces.
Month: November 2010
Pomegranate Season means Holy Guacamole
Some friends were in town last week and we hit a local Mexican restaurant for dinner. The food is amazing and the chef greets you like you are a guest at his dinner party. He brings the special table side to view and he describes the food so emotionally, it is always hard to decide…
Ice Cream Sundae with a Chile on Top
The Organic Aji Cereza chilies were my inspiration for the A Chile & A Spoon Challenge that Marx Food is sponsoring. I loved that it looked like a cherry, I knew an ice cream sundae was in order. The challenge, use at least one chile from the chile sampler in a dish that can be…
Thanksgiving Thanks
An editorial I read last year toasting the unexpected in our lives has really stuck with me, especially today on Thanksgiving. “It will never cease to surprise how the condition of being human means we cannot foretell with any accuracy what next Thanksgiving will bring. We can hope and imagine, and we can fear. But…
Thanksgiving Snack Mix
The holidays and Chex mix are a perfect match. Though when isn’t a good time for Chex mix. I love this combo and your house is sure to smell like Thanksgiving when you cook it up in the oven too. Pumpkin Pie Chex Mix Author: Snack Prep time: 5 mins Cook time: 60 mins Total…
Feed a Cold
I am have been a bit under the weather this week. Fighting hard against a cold and am slowly losing the battle. Despite having brought a salad for lunch I decided to track down the Meatbally Mobile. It’s feed a cold right? They were less than a mile from my office, not too bad considering…
A Chile & A Spoon Challenge
I am always up for a challenge and a chance for working with new ingredients. Especially will the lure of some delicious prices. Marx Foods is sponsoring a blogger recipe challenge, A Chile & A Spoon and I got picked to participate. Yippee! I got my chile sampler and instructions in the mail and I…
Food Entrepreneurs
Speaking of food entrepreneurs, a new restaurant is coming to our neighborhood and I am really looking forward to it’s opening. Autre Monde is going to feature local, organic, and sustainable food. The owners are local too, and I happen to know them and think they are pretty great. They are so passionate about this…
Politics of Food
Not the mayoral race but the politics of feed in Chicago. What does Chicago have against the food entrepreneurs, seriously? The Health Department says it is a health issue and a licensing oversight. Though I am willing to bet it is more about lining the right pockets. No doubt the issue is complicated, but the…
November Reading Update
I am making some progress on my fall reading list, which is good news since the pile of books on my nightstand could knock me out if they fell on me in my sleep. Though I have gotten a bit off track, throwing in a few extra books. Here’s what I’ve read… The Mesh: …