I love a good challenge. Actually, I like the word challenge because it can mean so many different things. For the athletically minded, challenges are usually a way to inspire and motivate people to accomplish bigger and better goals. We’ve all heard people who say my next challenge will be to run a marathon or 5K. Nope, …
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Trivia Pursuit of Happiness
Memorial Day weekend is upon and there is one thing on my mind. Can you guess what it is? If you guessed, grilling…you are wrong! Picnic Food, maybe? Nope, not that. Maybe I’m thinking about fun salads for warmer days? That’s not it either. I’m thinking about soup. It started because my favorite cooking school (The Chopping Block) gave …
Chili Soup Because the Only Time Chili is a Soup is During a Pandemic
I’ve decided since the world has gone all inside out that I needed to find a food topic that I have always felt strongly about and take a whole new look at it. We are all learning to adjust to new normal and adapting to crazy situations that we need to learn how to open our …
Meet the Alternative to Meat?
Life is funny. The last few weeks have been consumed with food. Whether it was writing about Chicago Northwest Restaurant Week (and eating at a ton of restaurants), writing about food adventures or taking an awesome baking class, all my attention has been on food. With one exception, I haven’t been doing the best job of …
Time for a Bowl that Tastes Creole
Food magazines and food based television really have a hard job. One would think that getting to spend your life devouring plates of food, traveling to exotic places and hob knobbing with the best chefs in the world would be the best job in the world. (And it would….call me if anyone is interested in a middle …
Tom Yum Sum
I think I have become kind of a penny pincher. It is weird because I’m not a penny pincher about EVERYTHING. I buy quality clothing and shoes but draw the line at super fancy purse. I do get my hair cut and colored professionally but I go to a home salon to get it done. And usually with food, …
Cultural Appreciation
After my taco crawl blog last week, I got into a conversation with a few people about cultural appropriation. I usually stay away from anything that may be considered a “hot topic” but I felt that this particular cultural guardian that I spoke to needed to understand the difference between “appropriation” and “appreciation.” If you hadn’t …
My Friends Went to NOLA and All I Got Was a Craving For Cajun Food
Spring Break. Do you go on a spring break with your kids? Is it a time you remember from college? Do most couples take a spring break? Do retired people? Do single folks? I just don’t know. A week-long vacation that is a clear “break” between the long weary winter and the first days of spring sounds amazing! My …
Souper Tuesday
I’ve been making an effort to menu plan a little better this year. (I also need to pencil in some blog planning time because it seems like the weeks are flying by before I can get another one up.) I was noticing that I was struggling to come up with new exciting meals each week just …
A Souper Distraction
Do you get distracted easily? Do you look at your phone every time it lights up? Do you stop in midsentence when you suddenly remember something? Do you see a hawk in the sky when you are driving and veer a little off the road? It doesn’t take much for me but I get distracted. …