Tag Archive | Restaurant
Cooking Thought: October 17th 2012
Today is National Pasta Day! Fun facts about me, I trained in an Italian restaurant and needless to say pasta is my favorite! One of my favorite pasta dishes is called Farmer’s Pasta. One day I’ll share the recipe. Each year, Americans eat about 20 pounds of pasta per person, per year. But Italians have […]
Cooking Thought: May 18th 2012
It’s amazing how pervasive food is. Every second commercial is for food. Every second TV episode takes place around a meal. In the city, you can’t go ten feet without seeing or smelling a restaurant. There are 20 foot high hamburgers up on billboards. I am acutely aware of food, and its omnipresence is astounding. […]
The Revisit of PJ’s
124 E. Chestnut St. Mason City, IL 62664 217-482-3616 Saturday evening, after a long day of work, T and I decided to venture on over to Mason City and have dinner at PJ’s Featuring Jack and Jo’s. It had been awhile since our last visit and we looked forward to sitting down to a great […]
Lil Mak’s
Feeling overly tired yesterday after a bum night of sleep and then dealing with headaches, T and I decided we didn’t feel like cooking so decided to venture out and try a new little restaurant in Havana, IL . Unfortunately they are so new I can’t find their contact information on the web or in phone […]
Magic Kitchen Thai Restaurant
4112 North Peoria Road Springfield, IL (217) 525-2230 A Thai restaurant with flavor! Who’d a thunk? After my last encounter with a Thai restaurant, which was terrible, I was so relieved to have a simple Thai meal packed full of flavors. Magic Kitchen is a hole in the wall with cramped seating. And while […]
PJ’s featuring Jack & Jo’s
PJ’s featuring Jack & Jo’s 124 E. Chestnut St. Mason City, IL 62664 217-482-3616 http://pjsfeaturingjackandjos.com/ Have you ever been to a place that made you want to gush like a super-fan at a rock star? Have you ever eaten at a restaurant that made you want to keep eating until you felt sick simply to […]
The Town House of Havana, IL
116 West Market Street Havana, IL 62644-1144 (309) 543-5000 Twenty-six years ago on July 1st, my parents adopted me. Each year on this anniversary we do something together as a family, whether it be going to the movies, a little shopping trip or eating dinner together. This year I decided I wanted to eat […]
A Southwest Treat
Sometimes the best things that come from a kitchen are created out of whatever happens to be on hand. For instance, mayonnaise was created because there was olive oil in the kitchen, but no cream. My boss believes in the “Waste not want not” philosophy and we make all the food we have work in […]
The Oriental Palace, Pekin IL
2307 Court St. Pekin, IL http://orientalpalacepekin.com/ During one of our many excursions around central IL, Dauson and I found ourselves in the small city of Pekin. This was not our first trip to Pekin, certain to not be our last either, however it did end up being our first trip to Oriental Palace. I can […]
