Getting Souped-Up

For whatever reason, I’ve had a handful of summer soup recipes just sitting, waiting patiently, in my recipe stack. They’ve been sitting there all summer. I never made them, never even pulled them out of the stack to consider making them. I simply cannot get behind the cold summer soup recipes. And don’t get me [...]

Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Apples

While it might be a slightly less-tangling tongue-twister than the original, I can attest to the difficulty of the actual task at hand – apple picking. Now on any other day, I might have reacted differently. But two Saturdays ago on a chilly Halloween morning, we were struggling through the bazillions of apple trees at [...]

Pick It Up, Pack It In

Last month, I re-joined thousands upon thousands of Chicagoans aboard the Chicago Public Transportation system. I’d been driving to work for the past year or so while in culinary school – it was much easier to throw my knife kit, cooking uniform, and gym bag into the trunk rather than lug it all over the [...]

I Did it All for the Gnocchi

Someone please tell me that I’m not the only person in this world to remember, to vividly remember, Limp Bizkit. Please… You don’t have to tell me they were your favorite band of the 90′s – well – if you did you’d be lying anyway because that answer should be someone like Pearl Jam or Nirvana or [...]