Holiday cooking and entertaining season has come upon us. If you’re looking for new ideas for your own holiday parties or dishes to take along to friends’, try these terrific recipes from Chicago chefs. Lillie’s Q, Wicker Park, pimento cheese, a Southern party spread. Shokran, Irving Park, zaalouk, Moroccan eggplant spread. Rhapsody, Loop, arancini, Italian [...]
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North Side, South Side or in the Chicago suburbs, you don’t have to cook your own Thanksgiving dinner. Chicagoland restaurants offer bountiful holiday feasts. Call for hours and menu details. Reservations are highly recommended if not required everywhere. Many restaurants also offer complete Thanksgiving dinners for carry out — several days’ notice is typically required. [...] Cook up some great picnic and party fare this Independence Day weekend with these terrific recipes from top Chicago chefs, culled from Dining Chicago’s weekly “Eat this!” feature. Musically, thematically and theatrically, the Gershwins’ “Porgy and Bess” has been a controversial work since its first 1935 production. The passing of time, as well as deft staging and glorious performances, make Court Theatre’s new production incontrovertibly excellent. Will it be Dialed In, Twice the Appeal or Stay Thirsty? We don’t have any tips on the horses, but we can give you some best bets for watching the 137th Kentucky Derby in Chicago on Saturday, May 7, and indulging in Southern-style food and drink. Get out your fanciest hat and go out to [...] Call it Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday or Carnival … it’s the last hurrah before Lent. If you don’t observe Lent, that doesn’t mean you can’t celebrate. Here are our picks for Mardi Gras events around Chicagoland. 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 most-popular recipes of the past year from Dining Chicago. What it is: Polenta is cornmeal porridge, a very simple dish made by stirring cornmeal and salt into simmering water. It’s also often made into fried cakes. Historically, polenta was peasant food — cheap and filling. Where it comes from: Today, polenta is commonly served throughout Northern Italy in lieu of pasta. Before the arrival [...] Reezy-peezy is a historic Low Country dish. |
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