Allegro Burgers, Five Guys Style: easy to make and wildly delicious cheeseburgers, built a la Five Guys, but made with Allegro Marinade for a little kick in the pants.
Chicken Works (But How?)
Chicken Works and Salad Company is a grilled-chicken and salad bar joint in northwest Chicago (in the Irving Park neighborhood). MiLam reviews a meal it had there, while contemplating what “chicken works” means. Chicken will do? Chicken and everything that goes with it? An industrial chicken factory?
Cherry Chocolate Cottage Pudding
Cottage pudding is a dense cake that is drenched in a thick, sweet sauce. Cherry Chocolate Cottage Pudding is black cherry and bittersweet chocolate chips in a warm, sticky, sweet, cherry-soaked cake. Easy-ish recipe for a homey, comfort-foody dessert.
Honey Butter Fried Chicken
Honey Butter Fried Chicken: Chicago restaurant review. Delicious, trendy, deservedly on the slightly expensive side … weird tipping policy.
Eating in Memphis
Eating in Memphis: ribs at Central BBQ, breakfast at Brother Juniper’s, a celebration of National Doughnut Day at Gibson’s Donuts, some coffee to go with those beautiful doughnuts at Otherlands, and a kick-ass pineapple chunk at Babalu.
Think Jerky
Ricky Hirsch at Think Jerky, along with Gale Gand (Chicagoland pastry chef and founding partner of Tru restaurant) and two other internationally acclaimed chefs, has launched a kickstarter campaign to create a line of chef-inspired beef jerky.
Charcoal-Grilled Delmonico Steak Dinner Menu
This Charcoal-Grilled Delmonico Steak Dinner Menu is going to require a trip to the butcher shop and some multitasking. You’ll wind up with a fantastic BBQ dinner for 4, starting with fresh cherry cocktails, moving through meat and veggies, and winding up with homemade chocolate pudding, man.