craving raw fishies…

This is gonna be a quickie!!!! It’s Saturday night and I’m running out….

Craved raw fish the other night… so me and a friend headed to Oishii Too… my fav sushi place.

Started off with some miso shiru

Ika Salad
cooked squid sliced and marinated in a sweet ginger sauce, severed chilled

Ohitashi
steamed spinach in shoyu sauce

Nasu Dengaku
grilled eggplant

Sunrise Tata
salmon wrapped in white seaweed and raw mountain yam puree

I’ve always eaten mountain yam cooked since the raw kind is very sticky. It reminded me of Natto texture.

Salmon Sashimi, Scallop Sashimi, Squid Sashimi and a Spider Roll (for my dinner date!)

Rocking chair in airport. Awesome.

I Think They Want To Eat Me…

i’m a mouse…

what’s your favorite cheese?

i’m currently nibbling on a huge chunk of gouda… can’t stop eating… so dangerous… lately i’ve been craving salty > sweet.

i first tried gouda my sophomore year in college :] i remember it was like buttery cheese… before then i’d only really had american.. mozz. parm, etc… alling in love with gouda has opened me up to so much more!!!

gooey cheese <3

source: jaunted.com

dear Met Bar….

[this was written last Friday late afternoon..forgot to publish it]

… when it comes to burgers, I think we’re over.
Yes, I think it’s time to break up.

All this talk of burgers (it was 5$ burger week at Primehouse in Chicago) really got me wanting one. A nice big fat juicy burger.

So I went to my favorite burger bar near me, Met Bar + Grill to get my fix.

Our ‘customized tasting’ at Custom House

Last weekend was boyfriend’s brother’s bday :] So he, Steven, got to chose where to go. The funny thing was that boyfriend kept it secret from me until… he needed my iphone gps/maps app to get there :] hahaha… But he knew I’d be excited about it, and I was… the place chosen was…. *cue music*

DUN DUN DUN

CUSTOM HOUSE!!!!!!!

Like always, we created our own sort of “Tasting”…

Brunch is my favorite Meal of the Day

“There are very few things this New Yorker loves as much as Sunday brunch. You can sleep until noon and still get eggs anywhere in the city, alcohol is often included with the meal, and Sunday is the one day a week you get the single woman’s sports pages: the New York Times wedding section.”

- Carrie, Sex and the City

Despite feeling sick all week, and well, being down right nauseous most of the time and not eating as well as I usually do… the weekend turned out to be a great weekend of feasting. Thankfully I was able to keep all that delicious food in!  Let’s start out with a quick recap….. David Yurman/Chicago Mag event, tapas & sangria with great people (including the awesome Rick and the gorgeous Raechelle) at Cafe Ba-Ba-Reeba!… Steven (boyfriend’s brother)’s Birthday dinner at Custom House (which I’ll be posting about in the next few days!) Another yummy tapas meal at Meson Sabika and then…. the star of today’s post… Chaise Lounge’s VERY FIRST BRUNCH…. EVER!!!!

BTW, it was absolutely PERFECTION!… great that it was after Halloween… you know to beat those hangovers.. not that I had a hangover or overdrank or anything.. but boyfriend & I had been starved after coming home from K’s Halloween party in the ‘burbs. This helped satisfy our hunger MUCHO!

The first thing we got offered was to make our own bloody marys from the bloody mary cart that got pushed over next to our table :D

Share Our Strength’s A Taste of Pursuit: No Kid Hungry

My buddy, Chef Andy Husbands (from Boston’s Tremont 647 & Sister Sorel) is a guest chef at a Charity Dinner in Chicago next Monday!!! So everyone in the area, if you’ve gotten nothing to do on Monday nite, want to eat some great food and give a little love to the children, please check it out :D



Join Host Chef Christopher Koetke for a unique dinner event featuring the Chicago area’s most talented chefs. The dinner will raise funds to support Share Our Strength’s efforts to end childhood hunger in theUnited States.

900 N. North Branch Street
Chicago, Illinois

Monday, November 2, 2009

6:00 pm – Reception and Silent Auction
7:00 pm – Tasting Dinner and Live Auction

ABOUT THE EVENT

Share Our Strength’s A Tasteful Pursuit^® is a unique national touring dinner series that features the nation’s top chefs taking their talents to the nation’s hottest culinary cities to raise the critical funds needed to end childhood hunger in America. Find out more »

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Kendall Hosts

Christopher Koetke
Dean of the School of Culinary Arts, Kendall College

Massimo Bosco Kendall Chef Instructor Steve Grand Pre Dining Room Instructor

Guest Chefs
Steve Chiappetti Viand	Andy Husbands Tremont 647 and Sister Sorel	Matt McMillin 3Sixty Dining Intelligence
Mindy Segal Hot Chocolate Kristine Subido Wave

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Purchase Tickets or Sponsor a Table

Tickets are $150 per person and table host opportunities are available at $5,000. Click here to make your reservations online or contact Andrea Agalloco at 888.273.6141.

Reception hosted by Stella All Brands

Friend or family of Kendall?  Join us for only $95.  Just enter the code “kendallffr” (must be all lowercase) to receive the special rate.

Get your tickets now!!!!!

GT’s Organic Raw Kombucha

You ever had Kombucha? I owe it much love. This morning I woke up completely dizzy and nauseous. I blacking out and had my head in the sink for awhile this morning.

James Beard Foundation Benefit Dinner

Can you ever really go to too many of these delicious dinner events? You don’t really need a reason, but since boyfriend & I are trying to cut back on spending so much at events… who says you can’t celebrate his new job more than once?! I say more celebrations!!!!

So the James Beard Foundation Benefit Dinner was at the famous Publican, one of Paul Kahan’s babies :D

Haha so me… & some quickie cooking…

How come ppl don’t comment anymore? *pout*

Decided to take a cute little quizzie that just popped up on my twitter page from one of my fav tweeters @mylastbite!!!

What’s your “Foodie Profile” ?

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Last nite I decided to make a quickie dinner for me and my parents. I’ve made this before with the boyfriend (except with pork belly instead of proscuitto) but this time I changed it up a little bit with proscuitto, turkish figs, some chianti  & cute little cipollini onions.

On the side I sauteed some spinach with garlic and a sprinkling of a secret spice…

All three plates ever devoured CLEAN! <3 NOM!

I just had lunch and it was lame. Good thing breakfast of yogurt & cereal strangely filled me up completely this morning…. It’s taco day @ the work cafeteria but the fake hard shelled kinds with the minced beef & etc… :[ Sad. Ended up just getting a fake torta and building a huge salad with grilled chicken. I’m still hungry….

Fruit time… :D