Chicago Trip Day 2: The Rehearsal Dinner

Because I forgot to take shots at lunch, my only food shots from that day were from the rehearsal dinner, held at Maggiano’s Little Italy.

Photos from dinner after the jump…

Chicago Trip Day 1: What!? No Deep Dish?

Over Labor Day Weekend, Dan and I were in Chicago for the wedding of a couple of our friends (Mazel Tov, Justin and Symi!). The next few posts will follow our culinary exploits that weekend. Well… all of them I remembered to take a shot of, anyway…

Edibles/potables after the jump…

Don’t Try This At Home…

…unless you’re a World-Class Swimmer…

Sure, there were a few flubs in there, but this commercial parody was definitely one of the gems of SNL’s season premiere (The other ones were the Clinton/Palin sketch starting the show and weekend update)…

I love that Michael Phelps can poke fun at his Olympic-sized diet on national TV…

I think the one thing that would have made it a bit funnier (though I don’t know if a lot of viewers would have gotten it) would be if it had included something to the effect of “….and if you call within the next hour, we’ll give you the Ryan Lochte Diet: I’m Lovin’ McDonald’s” absolutely free…”

Something from the “other” category for your amusement while I try to plan out my travel entries…

Note: Tried to get the NBC video to embed, but it was epic fail. Nothing on YouTube. Will keep trying… In the meantime, follow the link (“poke fun…”) to the video.

State Fair…

Apologies for the hiatus… I was on vacation and had very limited computer access. Food posts from my travels will most certainly be forthcoming.

Shortly before Dan and I headed out of town, we went to the Maryland State Fair in Timonium, MD. Although both of us like amusement park rides, neither of us are really fans of fair rides. More often than not, we visit the vendor, craft, and competition booths, and we’ll also indulge in some of the fairground specialties (these really should only be eaten once-a-year). This year, we split a deep-fried Twinkie and an order of deep-fried Oreos.

Well… the deep-fried Twinkie looked like a corn dog… only wider and covered in powdered sugar…

And the Oreos? We weren’t quite sure to expect from them, but they sure looked good…

Let’s get a look inside of these bad boys, shall we…?