Okay, fair enough. Perhaps, there are few things better than homemade bread. Not many, mind you, but a few. I would say, "I haven't tasted your mom's pierogies..." but that would sound really creepy.
Berkots bacon baked in the oven for 20 minutes. If you are ever near somwhere with a berkots i highly suggest it.
Calumet Fisheries...who's ever been? Ever since Issacson Stein and Co shut down on Lake and Halsted I have no quick oyster and fish purveyor and Calumet is just not near me but I keep looking at the Smoked Trout on their menu and wanting to get down there. http://www.calumetfisheries.com/ Sure I can find some of this stuff at the fancy Mariano's but I kind of enjoy a good seedy fish monger.
That sounds kinda dirty!? Honestly I've never had a smelt but if it ultimately ends up being washed down with a beer count me in! Smelt aren't bottom feeders are they?
Been tempted to go for along time but it's a 30 minute drive. RIP Bourdain. As to what I'm eating now fortune cookie should say indigestion
There was a great hole in the wall called Fish n' Go on the SE corner of Lawrence and Pulaski that I'm missing terribly.
Ben’s Shrimp Shack turned into a Jiffy Lube at North and the river. The hookers left, too. Goose Island Shrimp House still exists though. Never been though.
We are cooking for my office party. Going Cajun/New Orleans this year: Crawfish/shrimp ettouffee Jambalaya Andouille/chicken gumbo with okra Ratatouille (vegan) Pulled pork Cajun corn Beef Tenderloin Pesto pasta Misc. salads and stuff And, of course, ice cream roll cake with homemade ice cream. I think I will make two of them. Making homemade seafood stock out of the shrimp shells and misc. crawfish body parts. I don't eat seafood or anything that comes out of water. I'll cook it, but I won't eat it. Same thing with damned vegetables. Can't stand most of them. Happy to make it, though.
Loved eating at NOLA, but my fondest NO meal was eating business lunch at a restaurant in a seedier section of town where they brought a couple of those large oval serving trays piled high with steamed crawfish to our table of 10. Nothing better than crawfish and hush puppies.
Shrimp Po boy and Mac and cheese from a new restaurant in town that is in place that never has business last