Product Review: Lithuanian Rye Bread, from Chicago-based Today’s Temptation. Rating: Doubly-Excellent! It has a hearty onion and caraway flavor and a fantastic texture. It also happens to be vegan.
Dates Stuffed with Goat Cheese
Dates and goat cheese are featured in this ultra-easy recipe for a luscious hors d’oeuvre. They’re a perfect appetizer for holiday entertaining, or for a cocktail party at any time of year.
Two Kumquat Cocktails
Two easy recipes for winter holiday cocktails: 1) A tart and tangy kumquat whiskey sour is a great way to start your New Year’s Eve party. 2) A clean and fresh kumquat champagne cocktail is the perfect way to toast the new year at the stroke of midnight, or to mark any special occasion.
Fruit Strudel Cookies
An old-world, old-fashioned cookie recipe. Wonderful for Christmas, but suitable for any time you want to brighten the cold, dark days of winter. Olive oil enriches the pastry. Raisins, apples, apricots, and a bit of sugar sweeten the filling. Requires a bit more than average baking skills, but well worth the effort.
Jeff’s Ginger Whiskey Highball (My Leftover Hangover)
Man-made, hand-made ginger ale makes this sweet, spicy ginger whiskey highball recipe unique. It requires time, but no difficult-to-acquire skills.
Free Wi-Fi in Uptown Chicago, Pt. 1
In its Free Wi-Fi series, Make It Like a Man visits Starbucks throughout Chicago, and reviews them as work and study spaces for students, travelers, and people who work from home.
Candied Ginger
Turn ginger root into a sweet treat. Blanching helps candied ginger lose some of its peppery bite; don’t blanch if you want more intensity or blanch a few times if you’re looking for something milder.
Chicken with Cranberries
Recipe for slow cooker (crock pot) chicken breasts in a orange-ginger-cranberry sauce.
Introducing the Cherry Cakeughnut: Day-Old-Doughnut Coffee Cake
Transform day-old doughnuts into a fantastic coffee cake with this easy recipe.