Meals I Have Eaten

I met up with player with words at El Nuevo Restaurant for dinner. We started our meals with margaritas (mine on the rocks with salt, her f...

On Sunday (I think it was Sunday) she who has no blog made some lovely pasta sauce and applecake. Mmmm. Applecake!

On Sunday the boyfriend and I deviated from our normal Sunday breakfast routine and went to Melrose Restaurant. I had the gypsy skillet (has...

A friend of mine just emailed me this, telling me that we were ze monkeys. This is actually not true...I hate bananas. But the video is sti...

So, the dogs. Yesterday the boyfriend and I took Bear (below and black) and Mackey (below and running like a maniac) to the Belmont Harbor d...

On Friday the boyfriend and I started a stint of dogwatching, taking over from mousehead and exploded viewer. A new neighborhood gave me an ...

On one side of our apartment we have the men welding...and now, on the other side, we have men coming out of nowhere and doing things right ...

On Wednesday...or some day like Wednesday...I made some oatmeal for Sicky (aka the boyfriend) and decided to have a little myself. I like my...

The boyfriend got a hankering for gumbo the other day...and then he made some. Thank goodness for crock pots, andouille sausage and roux.

Sometimes M. Lady does this...and sometimes I want to be like her. Here is my ipod's random shuffle of the morning: How The West Was Won...

To read my latest (except for the one I didn't tell you about because so many people didn't like it) post on Chicagoist, go here .

The other day the boyfriend and I went to The Sunshine Cafe for an early dinner. We planned to start our dinner out with an order of gyoza ...

But the frame fell down not due to rowdiness as much as torrential wind currents due to all the open windows (though it was raining, raining...

The boyfriend and I hosted wine night this past Monday. We had a pretty good turn out even with the flooded streets and crazy thunder. The s...

I tried a new kind of ramen yesterday. Some shrimpy seafood type of thing I got at Golden Pacific Market. The best, or most interesting part...

It was a friend's birthday party on Saturday night and so, to arrive in style, a bunch of us Andersonvillers (and hangers on) went to th...

On Saturday, the boyfriend and I woke up a little late. After a slow start we then spent a good portion of our day driving to Oak Park...onc...

On Friday, the boyfriend and I went out to dinner with a gaggle of Vassar people. One of the boyfriend's friends from college has just a...

I may have mentioned, at some point, that there's a lot of construction around our apartment...like in front of it. And to the right of ...

So, as I said, I went to the zoo yesterday. And took a zoo load of photographs. I thought I would caption them all. But I've decided tha...