Food For thought Festival
Saturday, September 21, 2012, 8:30am – 1:30pm
Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, off the Capitol Square
The annual Food For Thought Festival began in 1999.
From the event site"The annual Food for Thought Festival is a fun, fe...
The cover recipe from the February 2012 issue of Bon Appetit is pretty amazing and tastes awesome! This was the best fried chicken I've ever had. Paired with some mashed potatoes that Wendy made, this was a great cap to a Sunday.
Update: My photo...
We go the crew together last weekend an made some homemade elk sausage. It turned out to be some pretty amazing stuff. Today's post is another "what's in the fridge?" Quick Bites. This was the elk sausage, brussel sprouts, spinach and a hard boile...
Once again, what's for dinner? Looking through the fridge and cabinets we had some left over veggies and potatoes. Wendy, being a lover of gnocchi thought that would be a good use of the potatoes. I thought slicing the brussel sprouts and mixing t...
It's August and the markets are full of bounty. Going to the farmer's market can be intimidating. The Logan Square Farmer's Market has really come into it's own in the last since 2005. A Social Bite favorite in Chicago. So much to choose from and...
Slow Food Chicago presents: 3rd Annual Goose Island Pig Roast
September 11, 2011
2 – 5 p.m.
Goose Island Beer Company
1800 West Fulton Street
Slow Food Chicago’s annual fundraiser is one delicious and rockin’ event that features Slagel Farm...
Here is another quick meal I wanted to share with you. This dish took under 10 minutes to prepare. There was some left over pasta in the fridge and we have not been to the market this week, so pickings were slim. I was in the mood for some garlic,...
The hustle and bustle of summer, juxtaposed with the want of just relaxing. This seem especially true when the temps rise above 90. Dinner was a "what do we have on hand" event. The most important driver in what's for dinner was not turning on the...
I enjoy the challenge of creating a meal from what ever we have on hand. Today I found a few pieces of bacon from City Provisions that were hiding in the fridge, a tomato, arugula left over from yesterday's picnic and the pretzel rolls we picked u...
Wisconsin is a magical place, a land of cheese, beer, fish fry's and scandinavian women right here in the good ol' US of A. What better way to kick off summer on Memorial Day Weekend than spending it at the Kohler Festival of Beer. Cheese and choc...
Mother Earth News recently put up a nifty map with region and monthly breakdown of when to get your gardening on. You can check it out here.
I don't have any land to garden so I just have some herbs and leafy green growing in the kitchen, you can...
So the site is in Spanish, but from what I can gather this series of utensils is inspired by the patterns of nature and includes both serving and dinnerware.
Regardless it looks beautiful.
Paddy Longs knows their pigs. The place is known for their beer and bacon tastings.
So that's why when I heard they where having a pig roast I knew I would find my way there.
Saturday April 24th and Sunday April 25th Paddy Longs will be roasting a...
The trouble with stir fry. We all have experienced it. Water chestnuts flying everwhere, baby corn tumbling across the stove top and then Bam! A shrimp in the eye.
Well put down those safety goggles friend. Wok cooking just got a whole lot easier...
I know it is hard to tell if this warm weather is here to stay, but it has got me chomping at the bit to start gardening. As if the universe is encouraging me, I keep stumbling onto ingenious gardening solutions.
The first thiing to pop up o...
Just stumbled across this great sounding documentary in the making on UTNE.com.
It's called From Grass to Cheese and appears to be a great look into what it takes to be a small, family run diary/cheese farm.
Have a look and if you like what you s...
Thursday April 1st is a big day for Chicago. Not only will we be cautiously opening every can of peanut brittle, but we'll also be trying to take advantage of some of the new spring events.
They just jealous.
Ever wish you could boil that third grade macaroni art and have it retain all it's fancy glitter and gold, well now there's a solution!
Esslack Food Spray turns that boring old food into blingtasstic wizzack fizzood!
The spray c...
The Olive Oil Times is just that, an online newspaper devoted to all thing olive oil.
The web based publication is packed with recipes, reviews, science, tips and much more.
Sign up for their newsletter or check back frequently for your late...
We’re all familiar with St Patrick’s Day. You would have to be completely oblivious as a citizen of Chicago to not notice it’s revelry. The entire city becomes Irish to celebrate St Patrick converting the pagans of Ireland to Cat...
I was just flitting around the internet, reading blogs and such and I stumbled onto this very interesting and useful tidbit by Phil Vettel at The Stew. It seems that a number of Chicago restaurants have decided to extend their restaurant wee...
I don't know if this ever happens to you, but every so often something clicks in my brain and says, 'why haven't you made blankety blank in so long?', and suddenly there I am, remembering one of my favorite standby dishes that has somehow fallen b...
Give a person a fish, and you can be sure that fish has been carefully chosen and and is from the 'best choices' Seafood Watch list provided by the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Give a person the link to said list and you can hope that they make th...
Last Sunday eggs were not not working out for us. What was supposed to be a nice, simple breakfast of soft boiled eggs and toast turned into a headache and a mess. I don't know if it was the eggs, the weather or some other supernatural force, but...
Let’s face it. As much as I might love to cook, and as much as I claim that chopping vegetables is relaxing, there are those days. Long hours at the office, boss yelled at me, house is a wreck, fridge only has celery and sardines…s...
This Saturday marks the opening of Zullo's, an exciting new addition to the Chicago French Market...
Zullo's has been a long time favorite of the team at Social Bite - we just can't get enough of those Zeppole di mela (handmade apple c...
If you were a little slow on the uptake when it came to getting reservations for Chicago's restaurant week this year, fear not, you still have an opportunity to partake in some mouth-watering goodness on the cheap during Chicago Chef Week.
From Ma...
Mark Reigelman designed this bite silverware to raise awareness of both hunger and obesity issues worldwide.
The design is both stunning and engaging and I think conveys the message well.
I'd love to have these on my table, how bout you?
There are few things that I enjoy more than having a great meal. I love to eat, I love to cook and I love to go out to dinner. Lucky me, one of my favorite markets in Chicago, August, located at 1500 W. Division, is a grocery store tha...
Moleskin has released a new collection of "Passions" journals with layouts optimised for recipes, wine notes, wellness, film, books and music.
I love moleskins and these new targeted layouts look like great gifts for the food/art lover in your lif...
I have a completely irrational love of vegetables. I will pick out the vegetables from any dish and eat them, leaving everything else on my plate. So, when I came across a tuna recipe listing two of my favorite vegetables right in the ti...
So... you waited until the last minute to make your Valentine’s Day reservations, didn’t you? You really want to impress your date AND you want something romantic, delicious, authentic and sourced from local farms? You’re k...
So I feel like I was just telling people about the recent coupling of Foursquare and Zagat, when low and behold, I stumbled onto to this little The Stew. It turns out that there are some Chicago specific Foursquare ba...
Zagat and Foursquare have teamed up. If you have a Foursquare account you can earn a foodie badge when you check into Zagat-rated restaurants in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston and San Francisco.
It’s always an exciting day when the new issue of Bon Appétit arrives in the mail. Eric gets first crack at it and when he’s finished it’s my turn to pour over the beautiful pictures and recipes that I have little hope of replicating....
I love pasta. Cappellini, rotini, penne, linguine…be it made of semolina, spinach, or spelt, I want it. I want to buy it (the shapes, the names, the colors!), to eat it (fettuccini in cream, lasagna and tomatoes, ravioli with pumpkin...
For those among us who are Ommegang fans listen up and listen well... there are two... not one, but TWO excellent Ommegang Brewmasters dinners to be had in Chicago this month:
The Chiquita banana's sticker has been a mainstay of the produce section for years. I can remember mom peeling the sticker from ripe bananas and sticking it playfully to my lapel. My brothers and I would collect them like badges of honor, so...
I have already made my plans for Wednesday March 24th, and I encourage you to do the same... I will be attending the Three Floyd's beer dinner at The Wit Hotel's State and Lake Restaurant.
If you haven't visited State and Lake before, you ar...
I have always wanted to attend the Kentucky Derby... you know, wear a fancy hat, get liquored up on Mint Juleps, and generally steep myself in the tradition, but this year I am very excited by my Chicago-based alternative.
Rumor has it...
So, my wife and I were out running some errands and I was starting to get pretty cranky. It was Saturday and anyone that knows me knows that I hate to drive anywhere on Saturday. Traffic (my arch enemy) is bad enough during the week and now I was...
I spotted this great post from "great moments from Christory" on reddit. Lunch notes from my permanent room mate is an awesome collection of notes the author's wife sticks to his lunch bag every morning.
Every single one is awesome, def...
Just Bento has an awesome write up of Torihamu or "chicken ham", I can't wait to try this out. I'll bet you can mix the recipe up quite a bit.
I'm going to play a bit with using Schlenkerla Rauchbier or liquid smoke in the mix.
I'll let you know h...
While I'm surprised Hot Doug's wasn't number one, I still have to say that this is a fun and interesting list!
It seems like I have been reading an awful lot about Longman & Eagle in Logan Square, so tonight I thought to myself 'What better night to go see what all the fuss is about?'.
What I have to report is that the fuss is well deserved. Afte...
It is blustery and cold out there, so we are inside eating vegetable soup with crusty, crunchy garlic toasts.
Vegetable soup is pretty forgiving and it can be as healthy or unhealthy as you want to make it, so use up any vegetables that are nearin...
Ok, so I covered my engineering friends with the Cocktail Blueprints for Engineers post, but what about you typography geeks?
Fret not my visually astute pals we've got you covered, in sans-serif at least...read more tags:
I am not going to lie to you – this started with a hangover. Hangover = hungry and lazy. Hungry and lazy = delicious.
Lazy – Annie Chun’s Sprouted Brown Rice (1 minute in the microwave)
Hungry – One egg over easy
Delicious –...
I am a lover of cheese, but I am was woefully uneducated on the subject, so I decided to do a little research to see where in Chicago I might be able to get better educated on the topic. What I found wasread more tags:
This interesting talk by Richard Wrangham author of Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
Carl Sagan taught us the first step in creating apple pie from "scratch" was creating the universe.
This recipe card sums up Carl's philosophy nicely.
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A couple of things stood out about xmarx dinner tonight. And forgive me if you're a regular but this was my first experience and quite lovely.
One: Our hosts. From the moment the door was opened I felt at home and completely comfortable in a space...
What do you want in your stocking or under your menorah this holiday season? My list is longer than I am proud of, but what can I say? I’m greedy. Here is a list of some of the things I am currently coveting, in no particular order:
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Tonight was a night for making a dinner with things that were already on hand. I am happy to tell you that tonight that meant duck breasts! We put together a a simple salad of mixed greens with a mustard vinaigrette, we topped the sala...
While I patiently await my birthday and all the delicious treats that come along with the holiday season, I have decided to get a jump on the holiday cookies that I intend to make every year, but never get around to. I never know when to sta...