All Entries in the "Eats and Sips" Category
Organic Meal Delivery? Sign me up! –READY!
Looking to get your eating habits back on track? Eat Like the Pros (ELTP) is an organic Chicago meal delivery service dedicated to meeting the needs of anyone looking to improve their health and wellness through good nutrition. Since working with Eat Like the Pros for the past 4 months,I realize that what is great [...]
Flexitarian Fun at The Chopping Block
Flexible + Vegetarian = Flexitarian. This term, coined by Dawn Jackson Blatner, a registered dietitian and author of The Flexitarian Diet, was the recurring theme of her cooking class at Merchandise Mart’s The Chopping Block. As my fellow classmates and I gathered into the instructional kitchen, our tastebuds waited anxiously for the 5-course meal to [...]
Amazing. Generous. Schwa.
schwa [shwah} –noun Phonetics. the mid-central, neutral vowel sound typically occurring in unstressed syllables in English, however spelled, as the sound of a in alone and sofa, e in system, i in easily, o in gallop, u in circus. the phonetic symbol ə, used to represent this sound. a seriously amazing restaurant in Wicker Park, [...]
Date Night in Joliet
So your significant other suggests exploring Joliet for date night. Don’t worry, there’s more than NASCAR races and the creepy old prison. If your significant other is anything like the one I married, he’ll start with an idea and you’ll do the planning. Do not fear, I have a list of suggestions to give you [...]
Best Chicago Bruncheries
When I need to lift my spirits without spending money on retail therapy, one of my favorite things to do is go out for brunch with friends. Luckily, there are so many great restaurants in Chicago that serve brunch, I never run out of options of scrumptious things to try. After taste-testing my way around [...]
Buon Appetito Chicago!
Chicago is full of fantastic places to eat. In our melting pot, you can find any kind of food that your heart desires and any kind of family run specialty store to help you make that perfect ethnic dish. I am a fan of Italian food. Ok, I may be a little biased since my [...]
Keep it Simple When Dining Out in Chicago
One of my favorite things about living in Chicago is that there is a seemingly endless supply of new and different restaurants. Each one tries to be more unique and chic than the next. My boyfriend and I devote our date nights to trying new restaurants and it seems that we’ve tried all types: fancy, [...]
Three Dinners
I’ve never been what you’d call a particularly wealthy person. Ever. There’s never been an instance that I can think of in my life where I can say I was literally rolling around on a big pile of money. But that doesn’t mean I can’t eat like I’m the kind of person who has a [...]
There’s More to the Suburbs than Olive Garden
I have a confession to make. I live in the suburbs…and I like it. Gasp! I know, I know! Can you imagine? Oh, the horror of it all! To live in the suburbs with all those mini vans, soccer moms, and Olive Gardens! Well, now that we’ve gotten that out of our system, I would [...]
Learning to cook – with a little help from my friends at Bespoke Cuisine
There are things that I know I’m good at. For example, I’m a great multi-tasker, I can plan an amazing event, and I can pack a suitcase like a pro. And I know there are things that I just can’t do. Such as, simple arithmetic, running more than a mile, and last but not least [...]
