Category: Food

Meals, recipes, and food-related musings.

  • Comfort meals

    Comfort meals

    On a normal cold and rainy day, like it is here in Chicagoland today, I enjoy a good comfort meal to warm up both physically and mentally. It’s interesting what people view as a comfort meal as it usually relates to something they had as a child. With all the uncertainty in the world lately due to coronavirus, it makes a comfort meal all that more mentally comforting.

    So today I introduced my kids to one of my favorite comfort meals. Grilled cheese with tomato soup, but the real important item that caps it off for me is a diced hard boiled egg in the soup.

    a piece of cake on a plate

    So I’m curious, what are some of your favorite comfort meals? What are you enjoying lately that’s helping ease your mind from the concerns on coronavirus?

  • Get Paid To Drink Beer

    Are you able to choke down enjoy a pint of Guinness? If you do, then look no farther… you can get paid to drink Guinness!

    Check it out here.

    Get $3 off Guinness? Brilliant!

  • Two Ener-beers Please!

    You know how every-so-often you’ll be at a bar and there will be waitresses waltzing around with samples of some new-age drink? Well, last night I was out with a few friends at the Thirsty Turtle in Stamford and we were approached by your atypical aforementioned waitresses. They were handing out free samples of Anheuser-Buschs’ new drink; we felt bad for the waitresses and decided to help them deplete their stock.

    Now, if you can imagine what a Budweiser mixed with a Red Bull would taste like, then you’ve got their new drink called B-to-the-E (the “B” standing for beer, the “E” for something “extra” and shown as an exponent of B). The 10 oz. can of 4.5% alcohol by volume infuses beer with caffeine, ginseng and guarana. I must admit that I’m surprised it took so long for a beer-energy drink to hit the “malternatives” drink section and I definitely expect a Super Bowl commercial for this bad-boy. So a congrats to Bud for making the first entry, but whichever Marketing person coined the name needs to be fired immediately. Immediately.