Chicago chefs’ best recipes of the year

Every week, “Eat this!” highlights recipes for classic, unique and seasonal dishes, as prepared by Chicago-area chefs. Recently, we compiled a list of the top 10 most popular recipes of 2010. That list wasn’t chosen by us, but our readers, who clicked through to those recipes most often. Here they are again, because they’re worth [...]

Top 10 Chicago restaurant recipes of 2010

Top 10 most-popular recipes of the past year from Dining Chicago.

Eat this! Longganisa, sweet Filipino sausage

What it is: Longganisa is Filipino sausage, typically flavored with sugar, black pepper, vinegar and garlic. It may be made from pork, beef, poultry or even seafood. Where it comes from: Longganisa can be found throughout the Philippines, although each region adjusts the spicing. Lucban and Vigan offer garlicky versions, while Cebu’s variety is extra [...]

Chicago celebrates the season of the pig

This has certainly been a pretty piggy summer so far. Contrary to pork producers’ fears, the swine flu pandemic seems only to have whetted our appetite for pigging out. Pig roasts and other porcine feasts are popping up all over the place. I can remember when local restaurateurs used to complain they had trouble selling [...]