Chicago: Totally hands-free!!!

I just ate my first tuna-salad sandwich in probably 10 years. It came with a little bag of baby carrots (this was from Cosi). Before that, I had Trader Joe's-brand raisin-bran clusters with soy milk, a few gulps of orange juice, and a multi-vitamin for breakfast, and a mug of Roastaroma tea at work. Some water, too.

also, how often are you "working at the restaurant"?

(i don't know what that means)

is the tuna sitting alright, jaymc?

10 years is a long time to go without tuna salad. :)

Tuna grosses me out.

I am going to try to make ratatouille tonight, and Nick is scared.

I have never had ratatouille that looks like that. Not that that means anything.

OK so far, Kenan. I'll keep you posted. I've had enough fish in the past 15 months that I'm not too worried. (It did seem like a lot, though! Big ol' scoops of it.)

yeah, tuna is cheap, and americans like the big portions, so most sandwich places I've been to tend to HEAP the tuna on. I would never make a sandwich that big for myself.

all you do is make me hungry, Chicago

The ratatouille that my dad used to make used those same basic ingredients, but it was all covered in marinara sauce.

Well, this one has a tomato paste under the veggies... Maybe I should make extra sauce to throw on top.

Is there eggplant?

Yes indeedly doodly.

I never eat eggplant, and I've definitely never cooked with it. I got a mini size.

xxpost nevermind, just look at the picture, kenan

:)

Properly cooked eggplant is heavenly. Undercooked eggplant is an atrocity. Julia and I had eggplant parm from Rosebud this weekend, and it was grebt.

Two keys to cooking eggplant:

1. Slice it thinly, since it will cook faster that way.
2. Before cooking, salt the slices and cover them with paper towels for a half hour or so.

OMG I just ate 1/4 of a Bosnian pita (cheese) that I got at Devon Market and WHOA was it good. It had everything I wanted at that very minute: grease, cheese, pastry. I ate it in the car like a true glutton.
http://www.bosnia.org.uk/outofbosnia/images/jpgs/pita.jpg

Before that I had eaten:
cereal
coffee
fruit bar thingie

I want to eat the whole thing, but it will make my tum hurt from grease/cheese so I am going to have some cantaloupe instead.

The end

Inside that thing? CHEESE.

Aw, I didn't actually go get food when I said I would, because I wasn't hungry, and now I am and the cafeteria is closed. :(

That looks delicious.

all you do is make me hungry, Chicago

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Okay, I found a bag of microwave popcorn, thus breaking my 3.5 year streak of never eating the office popcorn.

I like that we get to take turns making each other hungry.

Just don't get popcorn lung.

Isn't the deal with that like that you would have to eat a pound a day for 20 years or some such?

or work in the factory, obv.

Damn, that pita looks fine.

Well, the dude who was diagnosed a couple of weeks ago had also made a habit of regularly inhaling the fake-butter fumes.

and ate like 3 bags a day??

I gotta tell you: it was great. And there's more left for later! It was warm when I bought it.

I think Devon Market is a field trip-worthy place -- they have crazy liquors from all over the world, like Macedonian brandy and all kinds of stuff. Plus the Bosnian bakery.

Devon Market + Devon Ave + Romanian Kosher sausage store = full day of northside culinary funzone.

Romanian sausage co. mmmmmmggmggrrrrggm

Is that the same area with all the Indian restaurants?

Yes, Mr. Que.

I've only been to Devon Market once. For some reason, I thought you were talking about Patel Bros. at first.

xp to Sarah - Yup.

i don't think you have to salt eggplants anymore, since that was to draw out the bitterness, and they've bred it out of most you can buy in the last 10 years or something.

hmm, that ratatouille looks good, and just like it did in the movie. i wonder if you could use butternut squash instead of yellow squash. if so, we'd have basically all the ingredients in anyway.

I work 2 or 3 shifts. So around 11-15 hours

Oh man I am totally putting in a meat order with Kid for this weekend, he lives down the block.

xpost No, Devon Market is by Loyola. Did you ever go to Ben and Rachel's place when they lived up in Rogers Park on Greenview? It's like right around the corner from there.

Wait, now I'm confused.

Well, it's on Devon.
That's basically the same area. Comparatively speaking.

For someone who is coming all the way from Wicker Park, I would consider it basically the same area. It's like 20 min. walk or 4 minute drive away, depending on traffic. Devon/Western vs. Devon/Greenview.

Sausage Co. is at Touhy and Clark.

Yeah, that's true, A.

I'm out for the day, Chicago. Wish me luck in class! I will learn about color management. YAY COLOR MANAGEMENT! (I'm maintaining a positive attitude, wouldn't you say?)

People: tomorrow is Thursday. I propose the Plymouth Restaurant and Bar, on Plymouth Ct. near the library.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/ow4nbP42cVK5zQxiW4D86A

Ooh, rooftop. I'm in.

Did you know you could bookmark all your tabs at once? I just did that by accident.

I can't -- I have dance class! At Old Town. Week 3 of 8. Should have taken tap but took Irish step instead because I enjoy hopping energetically. Have found that hopping that energetically is a little beyond me at 9:45pm on a schoolnite. It would be MUCH better if I got to wear an outfit like Laurel's.

AMANDA AWESOME!!! Let's have a sleepover and trade steps -- have you got hard shoes yet or does that come later??