Retro Birthday Cake

So this little psychedelic number showed up on my email today and it really piqued my curiosity. It is a new item featured from FreshDirect. It is so fantastically reminiscent of my rainbow bright days. I imagine it tastes vanilla and sweet. In any case, I might have to bite the bullet and get this [...]

Momofuku Milk Discount Cookies

You heard right! Momofuku Milk sells it’s day old cookies for 85 cents versus $1.85 for a fresh batch. At least to me the old cookies are just as deliciously rich and moist as the new ones. My favorites are the blueberry and garbage. You’ll have to go there to figure out what these flavors [...]

Delicious Cream Puffs of Joy

As coined by my good friend, Beard Papa’s is the home of truly delicious cream puffs of joy. With a perfect puffy crust of choux pastry and a deliciously smooth cream center, these puppies are addictive. The shop features a different flavor every day along with several kinds of mochi and other tasty treats. Sooooo [...]

Strawberry Balsamic Vinegar

The classic combo of sweet aged balsamic vinegar and strawberries has been a favorite of mine. Finally, I’ve found it in a bottle. While wondering around Old Town in Chicago, we mosied into Old Town Oil not knowing that we’d be taken on a world wind tasting tour of their shop. We were given [...]

Eating French in Brooklyn

On a recent visit to Smith Street in Brooklyn, one of the notable sites was the plethora of French restaurants. If you have an itch for a French cafe experience, this area is definitely one of the places to go. For brunch we went to Provence en Boite. Part bakery part restaurant this place has [...]

Roman Dining in Chicago

There is nothing more awesome than a true Italian style dinner….multiple courses, good wine, and eating that spans several hours. It is pretty rare to find a restaurant that feeds you continuously for that long without requiring you to nibble and look ackwardly at your impatient waitress/waiter. But at Enoteca Roma (restaurant part of Letizia’s [...]

Cake Tasting Chicago

The best part of planning a wedding is definitely the cake tasting. There is nothing more amazing than being handed a large array of cake and being told to have at it. In Chicago there is an endless number of great bakeries to choose from. To narrow down the list, I chose to go [...]

Gaviola Strawberries

I am cheating, this picture is actually of Chandler strawberries, another California variety. But I want to sing the praises of Gaviola strawberries. I recently took a trip to Los Angeles and had the opportunity to check out Pasadena’s farmer’s market. I was minding my own business when I was handed a strawberry [...]

Four Seed Tweety Bird Cookies

When I was buying the ingredients for these cookies from bulk item section of whole foods, it looked like I was feeding a very expensive bird so I thought dedicating this cookie to Tweety bird was appropriate. I was having a craving for nuts, granola, and an oatmeal cookie and these cookies are the [...]

Mark Bittman’s Olive Oil Cookies with Wine and Rosemary

Mark Bittman, I like your style. When I read this recipe initially I had to admit it seemed a little too much of the savory side to be called a cookie. The ingredients could easily serve as a base for a fantastic italian meal, which is what makes these cookies so special. I was [...]