Food
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Leap Day birthday? Get your free Grand Slam, desserts and more todayFeb 28, 2020 10:00 pm - Calling all those with Leap Day birthdays: After waiting for four years, Saturday, Feb. 29, is finally your day. Here are some tasty Leap Day restaurant specials to help...
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Glen Ellyn's Two Hound Red serves up craft beer and classic fareFeb 27, 2020 5:00 am - Wait, is that it? Searching for Two Hound Red was a bit of a challenge, and I passed the Glen Ellyn brewpub before circling back. But once I found the spot and pulled op...
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Dining out: Eat well during Rosemont, St. Charles & Lake County Restaurant WeeksFeb 26, 2020 10:30 am - Restaurant Weeks Lake County Restaurant Week: 10 days to savor is the theme for this year's restaurant week, running Friday, Feb. 28, through Sunday, March 8. From speci...
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Skipping wheat but craving a sandwich? Here are 2 optionsFeb 26, 2020 5:05 am - Hankering for a sandwich but can't have wheat bread? Here are what may be two solutions. It hasn't been easy, but I've stayed away from anything made from wheat since Au...
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For the ultimate grilled cheese, use both stovetop and ovenFeb 26, 2020 5:00 am - Grilled cheese is the ultimate comfort food, an adult treat that harkens back to childhood. I never met a grilled cheese sandwich I didn't like. Where I grew up, there w...
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How to use gluten-free flour blends in your everyday baking
Feb 26, 2020 5:00 am - I realize that not every recipe is for every person. Interest, diet, skill, equipment: They're all variables that make it impossible to please everyone all the time. One...
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Beans are good for the planet, for you and for your dinner table. Here's how to cook them right.
Feb 26, 2020 5:00 am - The following is an edited excerpt from "Cool Beans" by Joe Yonan (Ten Speed Press, 2020). "We're just here for the beans." That's what we told the waiter at Máximo Bist...
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Potatoes, beans and salsa add up to an easy riff on chili fries
Feb 26, 2020 5:00 am - Here's another way to cook up the protein-on-starch marriage that's so popular the world over. You know, the one that produced black beans and rice in Cuba, pasta with l...
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Mustard, cream and lemon make for fast and flavor-packed pork chops
Feb 25, 2020 5:00 am - Pull out your large skillet tonight if you're up for a pork dish that comes together in minutes but has a surprisingly complex-tasting sauce. Too often, fast-cooking rec...
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Visiting chef and ECC alum Bridget Mooney to bring Chicago flavor to ECC's Spartan Terrace RestaurantFeb 23, 2020 10:00 pm - On Thursday, March 5, visiting chef Bridget Mooney will bring her Soldier Field specialties to campus at 6 p.m. at the Elgin Community College Spartan Terrace Restaurant...