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Chicagoist feels a need to come clean with all you lovely, fresh faced readers. We realize that this may come to a shock for some of you, but perhaps you've been harboring doubts all along and are ready for this burst of honesty. It's hard for us to admit, but we feel it's only right to confirm your most uncharitable of thoughts: sometimes we don't cook. As much as we love foie gras (when and where we can get it), truffles, eccentric cuts of beef, raw fish, obscure and biting cheeses, caperberries and a host of other non-mainstream foodstuffs there are days when we don't even have what it takes to make a casserole of mediocre proportions. These days usually come when we're sick, tired, lazy or poor (how to fix yourself a nice meal when your refrigerator's stocked with obscene amounts of yogurt, carrots and not much else?). The weather, also, has an effect on what kind of cooking we get done. But a Chicagoist has got to eat and one of our favorite lazy/sick day foods is Amy's Kitchen Cheese Enchiladas. We can't help ourselves. We love scraping the last bit of sauce from that cardboard-like trough. We're enamored with the oozing cheese and molten sauce and we're not going to apologize. In fact, we're going to give you all the opportunity to confess your darkest and most unculinary secrets ... what food item do you go to, time and time again, though it lacks the refinement your palate usually requires? What is your dirty little secret? You can learn how to make ours after the jump. more ›

Though there’s plenty of evidence to the contrary, Chicagoist reserves Sunday mornings for the sacred, rather than the profane. Our rituals alternate between sleeping and reading or kneeling and praying. more ›

Chicagoist is not normally one for panic and the idea of apocalyptic end-time hysterics, but we’re beginning to look around and think that things are getting pretty wack. Two category five hurricanes in as many months. Planes falling out of the sky on a semi-regular basis. And we won’t even begin to detail all the passport chips, biometrics advances, and other ways to figure out what you’re up to. more ›