The Amateur Foodie: Food and Other Stuff I Love

Hey, hey!  The Foodie's back and ready to dish on some dishes. On the schedule today?  Pablo Picasso at the AIC, and, natch, lunch at ...

I've never professed to be any sort of great critic.  That definition would be highly subjective anyway.  But I know there is such thing...

The brunch is tomorrow morning!  All my ingredients are prepped, and I'm just waiting to make the custard and throw everything together....

Maybe this isn't anything revolutionary.  But it sure is tasty... You know when you get a jar of pasta sauce (good pasta sauce, someth...

We've all had those days.  For some, it's sleeping through an alarm.  For others, it's getting a parking ticket the minute the m...

I love tea.  Well, not all tea.  I love iced tea, I hate green tea, I love British blend tea, and I despise lukewarm tea of any sort.  My ab...

I'm back, Frontera! ¡A comer! I ate at Frontera on Friday, the first day of Chicago Restaurant Week.  And I got the Restaurant Week me...