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What do you do when you have several pounds of leftover mashed potatoes? My friend the Windy City Epicurean suggested that I make potato soup. Even though I love potatoes …

Before Thanksgiving, my friends and I celebrate Friendsgiving. It is a not so quiet gathering of 30 friends that involves two turkeys, over a dozen side dishes, and plenty of …

Why is it dinner and a movie, not movie and dinner? It makes more sense to have dinner after the movie, so you have something fun to discuss at dinner, …

Remember the Soup Starter I wrote about last Tuesday? When I came back from Napa I turned it into a Chicken and Vegetable Soup. I added all of my favorite …

There are restaurants, and then there are fine dining restaurants. Sepia is a fine dining restaurant helmed by an Iron Chef winner and James Beard nominee. You don’t go to …

Roast chicken makes the best soup. Sometimes when I don’t have enough time to make soup, I use the leftover chicken to make what I call “Soup Starter”. First I …

When my friend Adrian goes to a restaurant on a weekly basis, I know it must be something special. Plus, the fact that Dillman’s is a sister restaurant to Bavette’s …

After spending a year on my list of restaurants to try, I finally made it to Davanti Enoteca in Chicago’s Little Italy. One day my friend Lauren and I were …

Did you know that you can use ravioli to make lasagna? It is incredibly easy; the preparation time was only 10 minutes. You can use marinara sauce if you want …

Weekend breakfasts are the best. You may have noticed that we have been eating an insane amount of pasta lately. For that reason, my husband asked for no-carb breakfasts over …

As I mentioned the other day, Giovanni Rana Pasta recently sent me a very generous amount of samples, and I have been eating my way through them. Rana sent me …