Showing posts with label Traveling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Traveling. Show all posts

Thursday, July 17, 2014

Chicago Deep Dish

Two weekends ago, I went to Chicago and tested two local deep dish hot spots: Giordanos and Lou Malnatis. Check out some photos:



At Giordano's (first photo) I had just a plain cheese pizza and it was delicious! It paired nicely with a local brew (312). As Lou Malnatis (second photo), I customized my order and got a cheese pizza base with onions, bell peppers, tomatoes and olives.

Although, I liked the ingredients better of the second pizza I preferred Giordano's! I cannot wait to go back and try other famous hot spots. What is your favorite Chicago deep dish restaurant? How do you deep dish or do you prefer thin crust?

Monday, December 30, 2013

DIY Holiday Hit

I just returned to Texas from Vermont last night. We visited my boyfriend's family for Christmas and was able to stay a full week with them. Since I was on vacation, I spent little time on the computer aka no blogging. Now that I'm home and slowly getting back in to my routine I wanted to share this awesome holiday party hit!  I'm a big fan of DIY, but don't always think the projects are worth the time. If they don't seem time consuming, then often I think they look cheap; or, my favorite, they're a total flop! You know, the Martha Stewart expert project that looks like a 1st grader did it. Well, here's a quick (under 30 minutes) project that my boyfriend's parents did and EVERYONE loved:

 
These cute little penguins were made with only three ingedients:
  • Black Olives (One Can or Small Jar)
  • Cream Cheese (One Small Container or Package)
  • Carrots (One Carrot)
You will also need toothpicks (less than 30). All they did was split two black olives and stuff one with the cream cheese and the other with the carrot nose. Here's step by step instructions with more pointers:
  1. They assembled the carrot feet on the toothpick first by cutting circles then removing one pie slice. (Read step three prior to discarding removed pie slice).
  2. Next, they added the cream cheese stuffed black olive.
  3. Last, they added the carrot stuffed black olive. This carrot nose was the pie piece they removed from the circle in the first step.
Thought I'd share this fun and easy DIY holiday hit that is both easy to make and quite tasty. Enjoy and Happy Holidays!