The other day, a friend and I went to eat at Al Bawadi, a Mediterranean restaurant in Bridgeview, IL. The restaurant is located along a busy road, lined by an endless stretch of strip malls. Despite ...

Almost all of the many restaurants in the South Loop are designed to serve the lunch crowd. I’m willing to bet there is one Potbelly’s, Jimmy John’s, or Panera Bread for every person who refuses to ...

I still think about the goat cheese spinach dip. The fish tacos haunt my dreams. I pine for the three-layer chocolate cake with the longing of an addict. If I would’ve known that was to be my last ...

Natural casing, all-beef hot dog, preferably Vienna Beef Fresh poppyseed hot dog bun, steamed Yellow mustard Neon green relish Chopped onions Slices of fresh tomato Dill pickle spear Sport peppers ...

Place a layer of potatoes in a non-stick pan with 2 oz of clarified butter. Then place another layer of the shiitakes and leeks and cover with more potatoes. When the bottom of the potato is brown, ...

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Melt chocolate. Scald milk and cream. Add sugar to milk. Add chocolate. Heat for a few minutes while stirring. Combine yolks and egg. Add hot milk to eggs slowly, strain.

Combine butter, garlic, salt, pepper, tarragon, mustard, shallot and bread crumbs to form a panade. Stuff chicken breasts under the skin with the butter panade. Roast chicken breasts for 25 minutes at ...

Beat the yolks until light. (I use a stand mixer.) Add the sugar gradually and continue beating. Add the sour cream, rum, vanilla, almond extract, and salt; mix well. Add the flour a little at a time ...

Wash meat, sprinkle lightly with seasoned salt, place on barbecue rack, slow cook for 12 hours before being removed to serve on Kaiser bun with coleslaw and barbeque sauce. Chop cabbage finely. Mix ...

Preheat oven to 350° F. Place stale bread in a bowl with milk and squeeze the bread with your hand until it is saturated with milk. With an electric mixer on high speed in a separate bowl, beat eggs ...

Boil the hot dog, steam the poppy-seed bun and top with mustard, relish, onions, tomato slices, pickle, hot peppers and a dash of celery salt.

As promised, here are a few more stories behind the brand names you see during your trip down the grocery story aisle. Dinty Moore – That familiar name on canned beef stew was taken from a character ...