On Saturday I hosted a cookie party. My mom, sister-in-law, cousin, nieces, Dallas’ aunts, and some of my girlfriends all came over. Each brought several dozen cookies, which we laid out and sampled over the course of a few hours.
I served some baba ganoush (Dallas and I love the Whole Foods brand of it [...]
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Last week we had a surprise guest speaker in my photography class. His name Will Okun and he’s a Chicago Public Schools English teacher on the West Side of Chicago, in Austin, at a school that’s basically a second chance school for kids that have dropped out. He’s also really into photography and, more specifically, [...]
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Black Forest Omelet (gruyere, crispy leeks, black forest ham, caramelized onions) with togarashi potatoes and whole wheat toast :: Sola, North Center, Chicago
This weekend I brunched at two of my favorite brunch places with two of my favorite brunch friends.
On Saturday I biked to Wicker Park and met Margaret at Milk & Honey. I [...]
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Last week Wednesday, before I went to California and before my family was visiting, Chuck and I met up with Alpana Singh and her husband Charles Blackstone at a wine tasting she was hosting at Osteria Via Stato. Afterwards she had made dinner arrangements for us at David Burke’s Primehouse and also invited Martin Duffy, [...]
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Devil Duck Fountain, The Village Tap, Roscoe Village, Chicago
Last night was the 3rd night in less than a week that I was at The Village Tap. None of the nights did I get really drunk or anything and two of the nights was kind of for dinner and all of the nights were outside on [...]
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