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No idea how nice they are/price ranges since I don't live there, but my friend LOVES Hub 51 and Cafe Ba-Ba-Reeba...I'd suggest checking out reviews of LEY restaurants on Yelp...the Yelp community in Chicago is huge (I'm in KC and jealous of it) and I bet you can find help there.

emes1 at 10:42PM on 09/09/08

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chick peas - main dish ideas required

Ahhh, whyyyy doesn't my html ever work? Pfft.

emes1 at 11:49AM on 07/16/08

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chick peas - main dish ideas required

These are so great...I actually bake them rather than frying them.

emes1 at 11:02AM on 07/16/08

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Mmm..fancy bar food

@Adam: Holy fbombs, I'm already hooked!

emes1 at 8:17PM on 07/15/08

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already tired of pasta salad

This is my favorite pasta salad of all time. I could eat it every day and be totally happy!

emes1 at 6:13PM on 07/06/08

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Muffins!

@ Perky...LOL...dirty minds think alike. Thanks!!

emes1 at 11:56PM on 06/19/08

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Tastespotting - what happened?

oh, NO. I found so many recipes from tasty looking pictures I found on there. Dammat :(

emes1 at 12:14AM on 06/13/08

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Let's Talk Strawberries... What's your favorite recipe?

Not necessarily a recipe, but the strawberry basil lemonade from Houlihan's is one of my absolute favorite drinks..we figured out our own way to make it. Muddle some cut up strawberry pieces with sugar and basil leaves, add some fresh lemonade and gin or vodka. Mmm...

emes1 at 10:12PM on 06/12/08

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If Obama and McCain were food... What food would they be?

Obama would be new, fresh, exciting and delicious. McCain would mostly be stale. I wonder what side of the political spectrum I fall.... ;)

emes1 at 10:03PM on 06/10/08

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How was your school's hot lunch?

My favorite was "Italian dipping sticks"...2 breadsticks with a bowl of meaty tomato sauce...Oo, and on chili days we always got a cinnamon roll...delish! And who can forget chicken nuggets shaped like dinosaurs?

emes1 at 11:44PM on 06/04/08

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A Lesson for Omnivores: Vegetarian Myths, Debunked

"but unless we're talking about the kind of salmon that comes freshly plucked from the vine, this makes you an omnivore."

That made me crack up...I liked the part about not eating anything that used to have eyeballs. It boggles the mind that some people somehow don't think chicken or fish are "meat."

emes1 at 5:03PM on 05/08/08

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Yelp.com

I'm Yelp Elite as well--I love Yelp! Totally addicted. I wish there were more KC area users!

emes1 at 9:39PM on 04/28/08

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Fighting for Homemade Mayonnaise's Rights

*cracking up* Seth, I am absolutely with you. In high school I worked at a sandwich shop and we had to empty out these gigantic tubs of mayo into the containers we used on the line to make sandwiches...getting a whole bunch of it slathered on my hand one time almost put me over the edge. Urp.

emes1 at 4:10PM on 04/24/08

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One Trick Pony Restaurants

anastasia: as very recent college grads we wanted to target that market! we were thinking friday/saturday/sunday lunches would be the busiest times.

modysoul: there's a grilled cheese place in KC as well...it's called cheesehead and it's right down the street from my work. can't wait to try it out!

emes1 at 10:44PM on 04/03/08

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One Trick Pony Restaurants

I think I've already answered this in a different thread, but my roommate and I have had lengthy discussions about opening Nacho Town--It would probably be the best place on earth.

emes1 at 1:46PM on 04/03/08

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Hezbollah Tofu

That's friggin hysterical. I love Anthony Bourdain, even though I'm a vegetarian. I think I'm going to have to try the mushroom recipe soon!!

emes1 at 10:55AM on 03/26/08

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What would your restaurant be?

My roommate and I have already figured this one out--Nacho Town. Not only gourmet types of standard Mexican nachos, but Italian nachos, Chinese nachos, veggie nachos, pretty much any type of cuisine, but in nacho form. We have a list of ideas for almost all "ethnicities" of food to turn into nachos. Dessert nachos included! We think it'd go over pretty great in a college town....

emes1 at 12:11PM on 03/06/08

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When the vending machine calls, what do you choose?

I rarely (as in...once every 2 months) get anything from the vending machine. I have no idea why, but yesterday I really needed peanut M&Ms. And they were great. If not those, then I'll go for a PayDay or bag of pretzels. The vending machine in my building is piddly and rarely has any of these three favs. Seriously.

emes1 at 12:14PM on 02/28/08

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Who's a vegetarian?

I'm a vegetarian and I love it! I'm trying to slowly transition into a vegan throughout 2008 but it's hard being semi-recently out of college and living with a roommate to make that full switch.

Favorite veggie recipes..hmm. My dad (a huge meat eater) loves this recipe (and makes it for my granparets--even bigger meat eaters). I've found so many great recipes on vegweb and there are tons of great veggie blogs. Some days I might make a grilled portobella sandwich, other days a salad, other days tofu stir fry...there are tons of options.

This week, most of my meals have been similar...dinner has been brown rice, black beans, broccoli and tons of garlic on Monday, brown rice, broccoli, spinach, tons of garlic and soy sauce on Tuesday, fried rice with peas and carrots, broccoli, onion and yes, tons of garlic last night (I'm taking a breather and going out for tapas and sangria tonight). My lunches have all been sandwiches of whole wheat bread, roasted red pepper hummus, spinach, tomatoes, maybe a little cucumber thrown in there...whatever I feel like.

I need to stop. Now I'm starving!

emes1 at 12:11PM on 02/28/08

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I love you but you love meat

I might have a problem with someone thinking I was one of the "flaky, picky cheaters" when it came to my vegetarianism (On a side note, I'm always astounded by how people are so rude when they talk about vegetarians).

But other than that...I haven't had any issues. I'm currently single but past guys I've dated had zero problem with what I eat, and I really didn't care too much on their food. Any guy who focuses on me not eating meat as a problem is obviously a lucky guy to not have anything else to worry about in his life.

emes1 at 10:29AM on 02/13/08

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Dinner Tonight: Bourdain's Mushroom Soup

This recipe is pretty awesome. I made this using the liquid from rehydrating dried mushrooms I needed for another recipe and enough water to get to the 4 cups of stock called for. I also used shallots in place of the onion and substituted shiitake mushrooms for half the button mushrooms (ok, so I used the outline of the recipe as an excuse to clean out my freezer, pantry and fridge). I drizzled the sherry called for in the recipe over the individual servings in the bowls and added a small dollop of sour cream and a sprinkling of chives. This soup is totally going into the regular rotation!

Amandarama at 7:46AM on 10/08/09

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Cold Pizza

Um, why not do both hot and cold pizza? It's hard to picture a tremendous number of people preferring it cold, and you're going to have to cook it every day to have some cold for the next day, so why not sell it hot too? Advertising the "fresh cold" pizza will just be another hook.

lemonfair at 7:36AM on 08/30/09

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Cold Pizza

@AliceBlue
Actually, I ripped off the name from Matt Groening from Futurama's opening credits. I love the divided plate idea-- and the rows of sinks. Maybe glass tables over sink bases? How about Dorito or Frito and bologna sandwiches?

I'm making a deep dish pizza tonight, and I'm already thinking about the leftovers tomorrow morning.

MarvinDog at 2:46PM on 08/29/09

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Cold Pizza

@Alice; maybe instead of tables and chairs, there could be a row of sinks for people to eat over.

NotAmerican at 1:26AM on 08/29/09

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Cold Pizza

Bachelor Chow. Wow @MarvinDog, that's brilliant. What else would that restaurant serve? I'm thinking that instead of bowls, they serve soups/chili in tin cans. And they need to have those divided plates like from old school TV Dinners.

Cold pizza is fine for me, but not something I drool to think about.

AliceBlue at 9:55PM on 08/28/09

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Cold Pizza

cycorider, Senape's pitza is about the best. thing. ever. My grandma always has 2 boxes waiting for me when I visit.

alclyp at 5:44PM on 08/28/09

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Cold Pizza

i will eat pizza fresh from the oven, or cold

NEVER warm or reheated

Deeberry at 3:17PM on 08/28/09

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How was your school's hot lunch?

@tvilov, perhaps you would be better off not knowing.

cybercita at 4:33PM on 08/21/09

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How was your school's hot lunch?

I attended Oakland High School in Oakland California in the late '50's. The lunches in the school cafateria were not really that bad. In particular I liked the hamburgers, they had a very distinct taste, a taste that I have not found in any hamburger I have eaten since. Something was added to the hamburger meat during preparation to give it the distinct taste, I suspect that it was a condiment but to this day I have been unable to recreate the taste. I have been looking for information on a cookbook that the Alameda County public schools may have been using at the time, perhaps it would have the recipe for the hamburgers.

tvilov at 4:25PM on 08/21/09

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Imo's Pizza in St. Louis

Imo's is ok if you really need a St. Louis style pizza fix, but the best is Joe Bacardi's in Eureka, Mo. It's the best there is.

curlytopmom at 1:57PM on 04/16/09

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Sushi - Love it or Hate it?

Love it! Not only do I like the taste, but the whole experience. We have a wonderful sushi restaurant nearby, which is amazing considering we live in the "heartland", and we go there just about every week. In fact, they just sent me a birthday coupon as I am a member of their Sushi Addict club! The bad thing is that lately I get a bit sick at my stomach afterwards, not sure what that's about. But it sure is tasty going down! Sorry for the TMI.

gourmetgal at 1:02AM on 04/07/09

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Sushi - Love it or Hate it?

Just a thught, why don't you try the crunchy rolls that they have..

I think you might not like the Sashimi......which is the raw fish.....

Chef of hearts at 12:29AM on 04/07/09

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Dining in Kansas City, MO

Hi Kristin:

Just wanted to say that I highly recommend dining at Lidia's Kansas City while you are there- they are offering a traditional 'Feast of the Seven Fishes,' up until and including Christmas Eve. Of course they will be serving their a la carte menu, as well. Definitely worth a trip!

LaurenF at 2:53PM on 12/04/08

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Dining in Kansas City, MO

Lidia's is great -- nice atmosphere, not too expensive. They've got a pasta special where for about $20 at lunch and $25 at dinner, you get ceasar salad, the three pastas of the day, and tiramisu. I've been there about a dozen times and it's always been great. They have a very reasonable winelist and I also recommend the fried calamari.

shallot at 1:58PM on 11/26/08

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Dinner Tonight: Bourdain's Mushroom Soup

This recipe was as advertised: (1) delicious and (2) dimple to make.

I made this recipe "as is" but with one major alteration. I sauteed the mushrooms and onions until they were *very* browned (like Pastor Ryan's Mushrooms at Pioneer Woman's blog). This alteration added a noticeable depth of flavor to the original recipe. It also darkened the color, so keep that in mind if that's a consideration.

Eaterino at 4:46PM on 11/23/08

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Dinner Tonight: Bourdain's Mushroom Soup

If you don't have sherry I think you could easily use dry white wine, and if you like it that way invest in sherry for the future. Or stay with the white wine. Personally I have started using shaoxing wine instead of sherry for most recipes. I like it's subtler flavor. I do have to go to an oriental grocery to get it.

Michael Z at 3:41AM on 11/20/08

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"If allowed only ONE topping on a cheese pizza, it'd be _____."

Mushrooms. Thick sliced, and placed raw on the pizza before baking, so they're all nice and chewy.

jenilowrance at 12:50AM on 10/30/08

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"If allowed only ONE topping on a cheese pizza, it'd be _____."

Hmm... if I have to choose just one, I would have to say mushrooms.

I would also swap the cheese for some spinach, or perhaps pineapple...

Steen at 12:45AM on 10/30/08

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"If allowed only ONE topping on a cheese pizza, it'd be _____."

can i request fresh mozzarella cheese?
then i think i will take some feta cheese at my topping along with it. mmm feta.

plyeng at 1:49AM on 10/28/08

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"If allowed only ONE topping on a cheese pizza, it'd be _____."

mushrooms!

caramel at 11:23AM on 10/27/08

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"If allowed only ONE topping on a cheese pizza, it'd be _____."

im boring pepperoni

pjracz10 at 11:19AM on 10/27/08

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Sushi - Love it or Hate it?

Love it. We have one of those awful chinese all you can eat places near work. Costs about $6.95. Their food is not very good....but, their sushi and their rice paper rolls with pork or shrimp are soooooo good. Very limited sushi (tuna, salmon (not smoked), a couple of others) and a few of those california rolls, granted the variety suffers, but for $6.95. Oh, and tea is included....lol.

Most of the patrons spend their time at the steam tables.... while I'm all by myself in the sushi area.

lochaven at 10:31PM on 10/23/08

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