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classic chocolate cupcakes 31 May 2013 | 09:18 pm
Whatever happened to magic? When I was growing up magic seemed, if not quite at Houdini levels, popular enough that there were a few television specials every year. At least once a summer CBS would t...
homemade hamburger buns 9 May 2013 | 09:54 am
I love any business makeover show. Hotel Impossible, Tabatha Takes Over, Restaurant Impossible, Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (and the lesser American equivalent), Bar Rescue. Except for the screaming a...
blueberry muffins 28 Apr 2013 | 02:48 am
I was going to make an introduction about some nonsense that has nothing to do with the recipe and then tie it to the recipe with the thinnest of transitions, like I usually do, but the note about usi...
my newest project 18 Apr 2013 | 07:51 am
Introducing...Chicago Food Bloggers! This is what I have been working on for the past few weeks. It's based on Boston Food Bloggers, whose founder, Rachel Leah Blumenthal, gave the site her blessing....
clam juice and other things that are "in" for march according to lad mags 10 Mar 2013 | 09:54 pm
Have you heard of Next Issue? It's basically Netflix for magazines: you pay a monthly fee and get access to almost all of the magazines you could want. It's great. You always have all of this reading ...
homemade mayonnaise/ chicken salad 26 Feb 2013 | 08:55 am
Did you watch the Academy Awards yesterday? Kind of strange. That's nice how Chicago won everything. Were you offended by Seth MacFarlane or not? He enunciates well, but he also seemed to hate everyon...
Pączki 12 Feb 2013 | 07:55 pm
Happy Pączki Day! Are you aware it's pączki day? Are you Polish? If so, of course you are. If not, too bad for you, eh? Pączki are Polish pastries eaten on Fat Tuesday, or lent eve. When I was growi...
brown butter vanilla rice crispy treats 7 Feb 2013 | 10:35 pm
I'm just going to act like it's been one week since I updated this blog and not over six months. A lot has happened in that week. I moved back home to Chicago! There just weren't enough shootings in ...
vanilla blueberry pie 18 Jul 2012 | 12:36 am
Where to live, where to live. So, now that I have graduated, I have been searching for jobs. It's finally time to answer that question people have asked so often over the last two years: "So what are...
fancy food show 7 Jul 2012 | 02:36 am
When you say you've eaten so much cheese that you can't eat any more cheese, people don't believe you. "That's not a real problem." "I can't imagine ever not wanting cheese." "I could eat an infinite ...
