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potstickers with ground chicken, ginger and scallions

Potstickers.

Lightly fried & crispy on the outside, soft and savory on the inside, dunked in that extra tasty soy sauce you get in restaurants that you can never find at the grocery store.  Excellent.

But I never thought to actually make them myself. They had never even registered on my food-radar, until now. And that’s saying [...]

the perfect thin-crust pizza?

Not exactly.

It looks pretty good though, doesn’t it?

At the risk of sounding boastful, I should tell you that I make a killer deep-dish Chicago-style pizza. It’s actually Cook’s Illustrated’s exact recipe, I don’t dare alter a thing. It is so good that upon tasting the first bite of my very first attempt at this pizza, [...]

red lentil soup with lemon and cilantro

Snow day!

Work was cancelled today, which I wasn’t expecting, so I’m feeling giddy. After all, Blizzard 2011, as they are calling it, is still raging outside here in Chicago. I was not feeling as giddy driving home on the Edens expressway last night just as the storm hit. But today, I’m on my laptop writing to [...]