Category Archives: Food

All about food we like, have cooked, have ordered at a restaurant, or generally put in our guts.

Snow, Snow, Ambrosia?

Chicago is buried under a couple of inches of snow this week. I’ve been getting up every morning to shovel our sidewalk. It’s been a lot of work, but not all bad. Because we leave so early in the morning, I’m usually shoveling around 6:15 am. The sun is just starting to peek over the …

February 15, 2007 – 8:42 pm | By chrisandcamri | Posted in Food | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Hummus Among Us

It’s 2007, hummus is like a 1987 burrito, still sort of a teeny bit on the edge of common American food. Almost everyone has had it, but you’ll occasionally run into someone who’s never heard of the stuff. Seriously, it’s rare, but it does happen. Hummus, wikipedia tells us, is “a dip made of chickpea …

February 8, 2007 – 8:41 pm | By chrisandcamri | Posted in Food | Tagged | Comments (0)

Miss Marmalade

It’s winter at your English country estate. A fussy old lady is solving the murder of your wealthy father. You’re checking your stocks in the Times, while you munch on a piece of toast. Quick! What’s on your toast? Butter? Sure. Marmalade? You bet. You are Master and Commander of Her Majesty’s Ship “Indefatigable”. The …

February 1, 2007 – 8:39 pm | By chrisandcamri | Posted in Food | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Bear Down Chicago Bears!

I’m actually a Steelers fan. Camri, on the other hand, grew up in Northwest Indiana (a suburb of Chicago), and is a big Bears fan, which pretty much means I’m a Bears fan too. We’ve watched every game this year. I even got to go to a game back in December. I cooked eggs, bacon …

January 25, 2007 – 8:37 pm | By chrisandcamri | Posted in Food | Tagged , | Comments (0)

How to Make Poultry Stock

Buying stock off of the shelves is easy, inexpensive, and a quick way to get a good soup going. Like most cooking though, it’s always better if you do it yourself. Not only for the taste, but for the honor of saying, “I made this.” Like a lot of cooking, stock is one of those …

January 4, 2007 – 3:48 pm | By chrisandcamri | Posted in Food | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Christmas Oranges?

Camri’s Dad sent us some oranges and tangerines from sunny Florida this week. Oranges for Christmas is one of these traditions you see thrown around a lot, so I wanted to look into how it started, but I can’t find anything. Giving oranges on Christmas seems like a tradition that should have some documentation around …

December 21, 2006 – 3:46 pm | By chrisandcamri | Posted in Food | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Sourdough Cliffhanger!

We’re phoning it in a bit today, as we’re both busy at work, and the holiday season is taking up most of our weekends and evenings. However, we wanted to give a quick update on the sourdough experiment from last week. The bread turned out great, but wasn’t very sour at all. I improvised a …

December 14, 2006 – 3:28 pm | By chrisandcamri | Posted in Food | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Sourdough!

We’re trying to bake something new every weekend, for the most part we’ve kept our promise to ourselves. We’ve tried a handful of variations on the no knead bread recipe from the New York Times, some whole wheat buttermilk biscuits, and a cookie or two. This week, we’re trying something we haven’t in the past …

December 7, 2006 – 3:26 pm | By chrisandcamri | Posted in Food | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Thanksgiving Bounce Back

We’re totally stuffed with turkey and mashed potatoes. We had multiple days of leftovers, three kinds of pie, and lots of fun with my Mom, Dad, and Sister out in Arizona. So now comes the recovery time, back to eating relatively healthy foods. It’s an uphill battle, as Christmas is looming around the corner. We …

November 30, 2006 – 2:50 pm | By chrisandcamri | Posted in Food | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Here’s hoping you and yours have a great time, may your birds be juicy and your potatoes buttery. There’s a ton of good Turkey recipes out there in the world, so we wanted to drop a quick leftover idea instead. In the words of Johnny Cash, “Momma turns the leftovers into hash, we’re doing alright, …

November 22, 2006 – 3:24 pm | By chrisandcamri | Posted in Food | Tagged , | Comments (0)