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We recently went to a kamayan pop-up dinner, hosted by chef Joelen Kenny of “What’s Cookin’ Chicago. We ate a delicious Filipino feast with our fingers and me the staff of Filipino Kitchen. If you missed this pop-up, you get a second chance: there’s a Filipino cultural festival coming up.
A most sincere thank-you to Upstairs Downstairs for counting Make It Like a Man among The 50 Most Delicious Chicago Food Blogs!
My grandma used to make the world’s best oatmeal raisin sandwich cookies. They’re delicious, unusual, and old-school. I’m talking really, truly old school … like, to get the recipe, I had to cross the river Styx and leave Sharon Stone behind in the underworld. Now that’s old school.
If you’ve come here to lean about thawing a frozen loaf of bread, you’ve come to the right place. Come see how we stretched “take it out of the freezer” into 300 words. What’s our secret? Adjectives!
Some say that baking bread from scratch should be taught in our public schools – those union-rife institutions that popularize horrors such as giving yeast a little sugar.
Why is Red Velvet Cake red? Blame it on the anthocyanin that is found in natural cocoa, but blame the artificial aspect of it on the Adams Extract & Spice Company. Or, if you’re fancy, blame the Waldorf-Astoria. Don’t blame beets. The FDA says that the Red 40 dye in Red Velvet is safe … but they also OK’ed Skittles, so decide for yourself.
Never eat soggy or cold pizza for breakfast again! Using aluminum foil and your favorite skillet or frying pan, you can reheat cold, leftover, pizza, and wind up with a crisp crust – as crispy as it was when it was fresh. Very easy how-to instructions.
Food Blogs and a Few Other of My Favorite Websites, Many of Which are of Interest to or Written by Men
