Category Archives: Recipe

With Easter just a week away, I somehow managed to eat meat today. Again. Just as I have for the majority of all Fridays throughout Lent. However, at least I know when Good Friday is.*

I’ve always considered Easter a festive holiday, complete with memories of buying a new dress each year, searching for Easter eggs (which I absolutely hated – I mean, just put them in the basket) and enjoying my own generous basket, filled with chocolates, candies, useless but amusing toys and the occasional dollar(s) bills.

This year, I’m looking forward to having Good Friday off and enjoying some holiday-themed treats. Just like these:

Banana Blueberry Buttermilk Bread

Baked Apple-Cinnamon French Toast

*A certain someone who will remain namless asked my dad when Good Friday was this evening. It has to be more than just being a blonde.

[images and recipes courtesy of delish]

Today after work I met my cousin for dinner out in Cicero. After fighting the nasty traffic along Cicero Ave. during rush hour, plus a slight mix-up with my GPS (Hello GPS voice, I cannot turn right down a one way street going in the opposite direction), I finally managed to arrive at what my cousin was touting as one of the best places in the area to get Italian food: Freddy’s Pizzeria.

A tiny space filled with Italian groceries, an over-the-counter style of ordering and a dining area that you have to walk outside to get to, Freddy’s isn’t much to the eye. But the moment you see the food, you know you’re in for a treat.

Two salads, one order of pasta salad, a prosciutto and cheese covered tomato, one very large piece of bread and a free order of gnocchi later, we were stuffed. In fact, we were so stuffed, we didn’t even have room to eat what Chicago Magazine calls “the best gelato in all of Chicago.” Hmm. I guess a return trip is in order.

Plus, I didn’t have to parallel park. Doesn’t get much better than that.

[images via Road Food]

With Easter a little over three weeks away, most good Catholics are in the midst of Lent. Growing up, the Lenten season usually meant you were forced to give up something you enjoy for forty days until Easter arrived. When I was little I almost always gave up Taco Bell (gross, I know, but twenty years later I still can’t resist a crunchy taco every now and then).

Lent also means giving up meat on Fridays. Yet, as hard as I try, I can never seem to remember to follow this rule. Last week and today I managed to eat a delicious (and meat-filled) ham sandwich from Milios without so much as batting an eyelash (sorry, God).

Thankfully, my mom came to the rescue tonight for dinner with shrimp tacos. After cooking the shrimp with some of the new Philadelphia cooking creme in the Santa Fe flavor, I’m convinced that shrimp just may be the new chicken when it comes to tacos.

If you want to try one of Philadelphia’s new cooking cremes, other flavors are also offered, including Italian cheese and herb, savory garlic and original. Click here to see for yourself.

If you want to make your own shrimp tacos, click here to see Bobby Flay’s (from the Food Network) recipe. It looks delicious. He suggests using a white, flaky fish, but I would probably substitute for shrimp.

[images via We heart it]