Make Your Own Jar Jar Binks Salad!

I was clearing out the archives when I discovered this oldie that I never got around to hitting publish on. Someone decided to immortalize Jar Jar Binks with a root vegetable. Yeah, I’m not sure why either: Jar Jar Binks Salad

Two Bites in Suburbia Dinner & a Movie – Number 3

After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he is discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He returns back to America to once again make contact with now disgraced Agent Clarice Starling who is suffering the wrath [...]

Two Bites in Suburbia Dinner Movie Series #2

The God of Cookery, a brilliant chef who sits in judgement of those who would challenge his title, loses his title when a jealous chef reveals him to be a con-man and humiliates him publicly. As this new chef takes on the God of Cookery’s role, the former God tries to pull himself back on [...]

Episode 7: Closed Doors, Severed Limbs, and Vegetarian Gumbo

The only Thai cuisine restaurant in Romeoville closes not with a bang but a whimper.  Mike and Katie introduce and discuss Machine Girl, the first in the Two Bites in Suburbia Dinner Movie Series.  And Mike heads down to New Orleans with some vegetarian gumbo to prove to a coworker that being a vegetarian doesn’t [...]

Ratatouille – Review

Even if this is a movie review, I felt like the subject of the film was so closely connected to food that I had to share my thoughts. I am, as they say, a Pixar fanboy.  With the exception of Cars, which was just ok, I am crazy for cocoa puffs over the animation company.  [...]