I got news yesterday that I’m going to the Bears game on Sunday with my pops. Aside from this being pretty freaking sweet in the immediate heat of the moment, it’s also kind of a lovely, heart-warming story, too. You see, in 1986, when the Bears last won the Super Bowl, and I was just [...]
Category Archives: Grilling
Make Your Own Dumb Brats & Watch the Bears Stomp ‘Sconny
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Lillie’s Q Offering Full Pig
Chef Charlie McKenna from Lillie’s Q – my favorite bbq restaurant in the city – is now offering a full pig for groups of 6-8. He’ll prepare it, serve it and discuss preparation with his guests. You need to give the restaurant 48 hours notice. If you get over there in the next week you [...]
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Merry Christmas from Our Train Wreck to Yours
Don’t worry, we’ll work it out next year.
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I Gots Me a Cast Iron Skillet
My grandmother passed away in September after a long life of 94 years. She was, as my wife has often described, a “piss-cutter”. All 5′ 1″ of her took no shit from anybody, and cottoned to zero nonsense. She was mowing her own yard until two years before she died. My understanding is that when [...]
Lillie’s Q?
I got a call at about 3:30 in the morning Tuesday from an audibly tipsy Steve Dolinsky. He was laughing maniacally while ranting about the econopocalypse and an ancient kabalistic text that foretold the whole thing. “For god’s sake Steve, get yourself together! What the hell has gotten into you?” I knew something was wrong. [...]
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Outside In New York Pt. 3 – Meal By Meal Pt.1
Williamsburg has just about everything a hungry, alcoholic in search of joy might need. Let’s call it the swiss army knife of good times. Or the melting pot of mid-life decadence. A pluralistic porridge of pleasurable perpetuity? A cubic fuck-ton of fun? Ok, ok. How’s about we settle on calling Williamsburg the Devil’s Playground. Because [...]
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Hungry Hound’s Top 5 Burgers In Chicago
I may have come on too strong last time when I accused Chicago’s own Hungry Hound of dining too long on his own urine, there’s just something about the throngs of lemurs panting outside of the Bongo Room every weekend that drives me up a wall. Oh yes, and he did besmirch my precious Pequod’s. [...]
Also posted in Review Tagged Bongo Room, Chicago, Hungry Hound, pequod's, Steve Dolinsky, Top Notch Beefburger, Vocalo 4 Comments
Outside In New York Pt. 2 – Fette Sau
It’s true that Chicago has, in the past few years, seen a relative spike in BBQ joints, but going from nothing to some is only slightly encouraging and, while the numbers have increased, the bar for quality has remained pretty modestly median. I still haven’t made it over to Smoque for their brisket yet which [...]
Also posted in Beer, Review, Smoking Tagged Brand BBQ Market, Brooklyn, Fat Willie's, Fette Sau, New York, Pork, Revol, Revolution Brewery, Rocking Horse, Smoque 1 Comment
Brewing Season is Upon Us
Before I left for Belgium we brewed what would be our first and final beer for the summer of 2010, a delicious and successful Saison. When I returned from my trip I learned that we had lost our sweet brewing space. Fortunately, we’ve got another lined up, it’s just not quite as cherry (or close) [...]
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