Girl & the Goat

Hello and wow. I've just come back from foodie nirvana aka Steph Izard's G&tG...as if you haven't heard of it. Basically, I wasn't sure if it would live up to the hype, but I'm happy to report that it definitely definitely did. Before I get down to business, poor Navid on 90210 and oh my god Teddy needs to stop doing gay bar drive-bys! I'm loling here. OK, so we started off with two of the three homemade breads. We got the squish squash with came with pecan brown butter and then this like brown sugar oil. We also got the pretzel bread which I think was my favorite thing we had all night it had big pieces of salt on top and came with dijon mustard butter and a thousand island sauce on the side. Afuckingmazing. genius with the mustard butter and I ate the whole loaf. Then we got chickpea fritters with romesco, hazelnut hummus, sesame, and goat feta. They were square and tasted like polenta and hummus combined and the feta added this creamy element that I liked, even though I'm not into cheese. They also had toasted chickpeas as a garnish that were the right textural compliment. We got the roasted cauliflower with pickled peppers which was amazing. Everyone told me to order the cauliflower, and in general I wouldn't, but I was not disappointed. Next was the squash ravioli with mushroom raisin ragu which was awesome. The raviolo were sweet, but the mushroom ragu which had tons of different mushrooms in it was sweet and hearty and really really good. Like no wonder that she won top chef. She's so good at mixing all these elements without it seeming cluttered. Ugh I wanted a gay kiss in 90210. So the mix of elements brings me to the red fish, with freeze dried black beans, cubed butternut squash, and hen of woods mushrooms. The black beans were perfect with the squash and the fish was perfectly cooked. Love love loved it. You can most likely refer to gingerfoodie's facebook or blog...she took some photos. Abby has acquired some rotten bananas and that means bananananana bread tomorrow. wooohoo. I'm in a slight food coma right now and I definitely want to go back to girl and the goat as soon as I can....so most likely in February because they're looking pretttty booked. Good for Stephanie she was always the best top chef winner and now I can say that with certainty. Chuck Bass just gets sexier by the episode, doesn't he?

xx,

hhh

whoops

Oh em gee, I forgot to write about Big Star! I love it there soooooo hipster, probably the most hipster place I've eaten so far in chicago. Tostada de Pescados were amazing. So cool and alternative, love the Christmas lights! That's all

where have I been??

Talk about a long time coming....I haven't posted in so long. I guess that I could say I have been very busy eating, which we all know is definitely true, but I have also been very busy working at my full time job at RL! Since we last spoke, I was about to have my second interview there. Well, I got the job and it is so amazing! Back to this later....I need to talk about last night.

So basically when I had nothing to do a few months ago I joined jdate regrettably and then I went on a few dates with this kid, which I'll mention right now required me to pregame alone. So last night he took me to Karyn's on Green which is a really nice and fancy vegan restaurant. Kind of lame choice but I understand why he did it seeing that I am a vegetarian after all. So dinner was actually really delicious especially the "chicken legs" which tasted like McDonalds chicken nuggets, I got drunk...standard....so I'm expecting him to drop me off at home after because he drove me, but no. I guess the whole seduction plan was to keep getting me to drink so we went to a bar, I down a vodka soda, then he's like so what are you doing now? I was like I don't know I guess I'm going to go home and see what my friends are up to....well then he's like, I can hang out. Here's where this gets interesting....so I'm really not attracted to this person, he is short, ask my how the last time I invested myself in a short jewish boy went (for a year EWW)...and not to toot my own horn or anything I can just feel people staring at me and this kid together and thinking the same thing. So, we go up to my apartment and I pour us wine, not because I'm at all trying to seduce him, but because in my rational state of mine I decided that i needed to drink more. So we're watching Conan and I think it's really funny (the show not the situation) and finally this kid leans in for the kill and in Kesha's words blah blah blah. As this is going on and I'm really disinterested, I'm thinking to myself....WOW. Is this what dating is? A return to high school? It's one thing in college when you get back to someone's place, you know what's about to happen. There's no like pussyfooting around the situation, you're either going to bang or eat pokey sticks, and if you're lucky, you'll prob get to do both and then watch a big tv if you know what I mean. But now, this whole real world dating involves like going upstairs with someone and being really awkward like we used to in high school when we'd sit on a couch and pretend to watch a movie and try and not focus on what was to come. Moral of the story...I miss college! I miss the boys I used to hang out with and the simplicity of it all...and furthermore, I HATE jdate!!!! I'm slightly nauseated with myself right now, I need to go shopping and to Anne Sather for some cinnamon rolls.

Ok back to the food and life, I've been working at RL for the past 3 weeks and it is so great. So many famous people! When I was there for my second interview Lionel Richie was there and since then it's just gotten cooler. Technically I'm not supposed to talk about it. So in between work, I've managed to get some solid eating done, don't worry. Tonight I'm going to Hub 51 with Marissa, which hopefully will lead me to a nice fratty finance boy in a suit and some kick ass cornbread....in that order. I promise to stay more on top of this from now on...especially because Girl and the Goat is on Monday!!!!

Stay classy, because I really haven't

-hhh