Food – Page 7

Mar 27 2011

Tonight’s supper is BBQ’d Steak

It is a simple supper tonight. As the weather is getting warmer, the bbqing is becoming more and more enjoyable.
So on deck tonight is a marinated steak, which I got for $8.00 at Safeway. As well I will be sautéed mushrooms and onions with some sidekick noodles.

Other than marinating the steak for a couple hours before hand this meal only takes about 20-30 mins to make.

The meal is looking delicious other than a little mishap with some salt on the mushrooms and onions, but they have turned out alright.

This is probably a meal I’ll make once a week. As you might be able to tell, I wrote this while actually making this meal. So here I am to finish it after I finished eating. I also meant to take a finished product photo, but alas I got to into actually eating it.

Mar 15 2011

REVIEW: Free Supper at Lou Malnati’s Pizza

Okay I’m back on Fort St John now, so I suppose I really should catch up on all the blog posts I wanted to do on my trip to Chicago. I figure a good way to continue posts about Chicago I should tell you about Lou Malnati’s.

Lou Malnati’s is a famous Chicago Deep Dish Pizzeria. The pizza is like no other. A thick 2″ tall crust, cheese underneath pizza sauce and all the ingredients. It is almost impossible to eat by hand it is so hardy.

The atmosphere of the place is great, so was the service. You could see the history on the walls and in the staff.

What makes our story of Lou Malnati’s so special was the fact we ended up with a free meal, which we can thank Andrew for once again. While our waitress was serving us our drinks her tray lost balance and tipped towards a wall behind Andrew. So Andrew reacting to the falling glasses reached out to prevent them from falling further, unfortunately one of the glasses had broken before hand and sliced one of Andrews fingers. There was blood, but it didn’t seems all that bad. Martin and Andrew disappeared to bandage him up. You could instantly tell the restuarant was very sorry about it and did everything they could to accomidate us.

We ended up with a completely free meal with dessert. Thanks Andrew.

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See all the photo from Lou Malnati’s on Flickr.

Mar 07 2011

REVIEW: Su Casa in Chicago

Su Casa is your average everyday Mexican restaurant in Chicago. Located on East Ontario St it offers authentic Mexican cuisine.

I’m actually not a big fan of Mexican food, but I managed to order something I could down. Although I’m not a find of the side of beans and paste with every dish. Lets back it up for a second though.

The restaurant was obviously older, which you could tell from the structure and inner decor. The place wasn’t crowed, but there wasn’t a lot of room either. Luckily we were able to get a comfortable table to seat the six of us.

The nacho chips with salsa and guacamole on every table was a nice touch and served as a good appy. The menu wasn’t bad, what I found bad was not knowing what most of the items where. So naturally I saw the word steak and ordered it.

It was steak shavings with lettus, tomatoes, rice and bean paste on the site. It wasn’t bad. Deffinitely not a favourite and I don’t think I would return on my own free will.

That being said, some of the others I was with, did in fact enjoy there meal, so don’t write this place off entirely.

There seemed to be a large amount of wait staff running around serving people and taking orders. For the most part they were really good and continuously made sure we were happy.

We all of course had fun and had a great meal altogether for the first time in a while.

Any recommendations on where we should go tonight in Chicago?

Mar 06 2011

In Chicago for Drupalcon

Well I hope you read Ptarmi Bob’s post on traveling to Chicago. We are going for a Web Development Conference called Drupalcon.

I would like to blog abtout the sessions and what I learn while in the conference, but may do that on With Media, or even possibly the Motion Media Blog. As for all the fun adventures we go on, I think I’ll do that here.

Just so you know, there may be a couple mouth drooling posts on Chicago Deep Dish Pizza, cause I’m not going to miss the opportunity to blog about them.

Kyle in the plane

By the way, I’m currently in the plane writing this because there is no in flight movie. Also if anyone has any recommendations for things to do in Chicago let me know in the comments.

Feb 17 2011

REVIEW: First time at Diner on 93rd

After a long day of work, I found myself sitting in a room filled with families, seniors and rig workers all looking for a good meal. This was the first time I had gone to Diner on 93rd. I would actually say that it isn’t a diner, but isn’t quite fancy dining.

I often wondered if it would be a replacement for Uptown Grill, but I don’t think that is the case. Diner on 93rd definitely caters to the families and the groups for quick family meal. Prices range from $10-$20, Which is reasonable for a restaurant in Fort St. John. The menu wasn’t the biggest although it did seem to have the selection. There were things like pork tenderloin, shepherds pie, burgers and fries, steak and a small selection of pasta.

The menu being smaller than most left me actually stumped as to what I was going to order. I ended up deciding to go with the chicken linguine. Once we’d ordered which didn’t take very long, as the restaurant wasn’t that busy at that time, it only took about 15 min. for our meals to arrive. So let’s get into this chicken linguine.

Chicken Alfredo

They say chicken linguine, I say chicken Alfredo, either way it’s the same dish. I often find it’s really hard to make the chicken in the chicken linguini not so bland, it seems that the Diner on 93rd has the same dilemma, or maybe that’s just me. The meal is something that I could definitely cook myself, and I have before. I’m fairly certain that the creamy sauce or Alfredo sauce was just bought from the grocery store. I also found it slightly watery, which made eating it a slight challenge as I tend to get my meal everywhere. The garlic toast on the other hand was a little odd. The garlic toast was soggy and very thin. It was only garlic on one side and I don’t think it was actually toasted. Overall though I did enjoy the meal and was happy to not have to cook it myself.

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For meal that was only $15, especially for supper was quite good. I don’t know how often I will return, but I do know I will be back at some point. They tell me the location used to be a Joey’s Seafood, which really shows when you’re inside the restaurant. It is a very similar atmosphere as well as food selection.

If you want a quick and relatively cheap meal for supper I suggest you go check out Diner 93rd. When you do leave me a comment, right here below.