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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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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Dallas and I haven’t been cooking much at all this summer. We still grill a lot, but we haven’t been cooking new things, really. The last cooking posts I made here were in April and May. Over the weekend I bought some buy one get one free bags of beans at Jewel, so I looked [...]

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Dallas and I went to Whole Foods to get dried currants and he, as always, was lured over to the meat and seafood department to drool over the choice cuts. We ended up getting a little over 3/4 pound of ahi and making poke that night.
For those who don’t know, poke is a raw tuna [...]

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When Dallas is home he never lets me use the grill, which is good because “yay! he’s cooking dinner for me” and bad because “hey, I want to play too!” On Sunday he went to the Bears game and was gone for like 10 hours. I ran (ok, ran/walked) around the neighborhood, came home, showered, [...]

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