in this type of rice. Egg is also absent. The gravies/sauces at these restaurants are either brown or clear, or at least they were. Tomatoes made an appearance in some dishes, alongside chunks of green pepper, but neither of these...

't salt and pepper your food before you taste it. we have stopped putting salt and pepper on the table at our dinner parties. Also, offer to help clean up. you don’t actually have to do it, but at least pretend you want to...

're served. The notion is that even if they distribute like everything else on a bell-shaped curve, you want to diminish the average distance from the middle that each Big Mac falls, so you get a shape that has a huge tall...

, fantastic, far better than King Taco. 4 over stuffed tacos with red onions, terrific salsa & home tortillas, all for $4.50. Seeing two women in la Cocina was a pleasant sight. I’ve always wondered why so many men are cooks in...

small yellow banana pepper. The khawan is excellent: light, fluffy, flavorful. In addition, they have chicken corn soup for .99, samosas, pattis, tepla, sakal palak, diff types of gantiah, papri, idli, kachori, etc. The...

the street is O’Cantinho for great Portuguese that will leave you stuffed to the gills and with money still to burn. Do yourself a favor and have a pasteis de nata for dessert, though. I actually prefer the filling in the...

I like those hot dogs too. They’re pretty easy to find, on little carts IIRC. Probably not the best Chicago dogs, but the only ones I’m likely to get any time soon. Mm, sport peppers.

Croissant and the Payard Chocolate Waffles with Nutella and Caramelized Bananas. Served first, the Croissant was heavenly with a buttery crisp crust surrounding a flawlessly fluffy center stuffed (and I mean jam packed) with...

tenderloin served with a cranberry-stuffed apple, which tasted like a holiday ham gone terribly awry." That’s the Freeman I know and love. I thought she was going metaphorical — “more succulent than a”...

sophisticated tastes and eat almost anything. They can also cook certain meals themselves. Of course that backfires on you when your daughter orders the lobster and your son wants the swordfish with the crab stuffing.....Are you...

with grilled pineapple and a gingery sauce ($20). The caesar salad was OK – whole leaves dressed with added cheese and pepper on top and croutons. A few weeks ago I had a similar caesar at Ken’s place. It was as big...

was dressed rather shabbily, making him look like a possible rock star given how expensive the place is. The lamb, IIRC, came with olives, bell peppers, tomato something or other...all coming together to taste like, well, pizza!

the deli case with Polish salads and the sausages at the back! Great pastries, possibly the best paczki in the city: specially the ones stuffed with stewed prunes.) If your partner plays pool, he will love you forever for taking...

This sounds so stupid. Baked ziti. It’s either too dry or too wet, or the cheese ratio is off. It makes NO sense to me that I can’t ‘get it.’ (Lasagne? Perfect. Stuffed shells? Manicotti? No problem. But...

I tried the lobster rolls a acouple of weeks ago after hearing good things and must say...I was disappointd. The meat wasn’t very sweet and they put frsh peppers in with the lobster, amking it even harder to taste the meat....