March 6, 2008
Quick Bites
- First item: there's a new website called Super Cook that allows users to find recipes based on what ingredients they have at hand. This will come in handy when you have, say, those porcini mushrooms that are on the verge of turning. we've been fooling around with the site for a couple days now and haven't been disappointed.
- More online recipe goodness: Sun-Times writer Dave Hoekstra gets his own "Bachelor Pad Royale" going by looking up cooking demonstrations on You Tube, whipping up a spicy jambalaya in the process. The sidebar notes three You Tube cooks to watch, including "anti-fattie" BitchinKitchen, who bills herself as the "anti-Rachael Ray" (who isn't at this point?) and shares recipes intended to "deflate your mate."
- Gordon Ramsay has been filming an episode of "Kitchen Nightmares" at LaGrange's Café 36, according to Phil Vettel on the Trib's Stew weblog. After one particular night of filming, Ramsay and crew took in a late dinner at Paul Virant's Vie, where Ramsay apparently did not think the food was "shite."
- W're going to the screening of the documentary King Corn Saturday March15 at the Cultural Center. The movie, filmed by best friends Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, takes a look at how important the crop is to our agricultural economy and how hard it is to track where the food we grow goes once we sell it. It's a free screening sponsored by the Illinois Humanities Council, but you will need to register, as seating is limited. (via)
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God dammit, I came up with and idea just like Super Cook a few months ago while cooking with the misses. Damn me and my lack of opposable thumbs Internetting skills!
Wow, that's not a very funny comment when the STRIKE tag doesn't translate from the preview to the actual comment.
So long, Commenter of the Month award.
Man, Chicagoist is really helpy today. First the news about the CPL site redesign, now this post. Super Cook is exactly the recipe site I wished existed. And I just registered for the "King Corn" screening- looks like good viewing for anyone who has read "Omnivore's Dilemma".
MM: We're always helpful, even when it doesn't seem so.
dave: Now that you know you tanked it, don't pull a spav and bitch about what you need to do to get the t-shirt.
Nah, I'm giving this one to Spook.