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something new

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For a bunch of reasons, I don’t talk about work on this site.  The biggest reason is that it’s boring.  I blog precisely to escape work, to give myself a creative outlet.  It’s an outlet that I can desperately need after a day in which my nose has been stuck in a thick stack of cases, rather than in the inspiring pages of, say, a cookbook.  When I first started working, back in the fall, it worked out well.  I had to scale back on posting a bit, but I still felt like I was managing the lawyer-by-day/blogger-by-night balance.  Over the past month or so, though, (and here comes the boring part), I’ve been lawyer-by-day and lawyer-by-night.  Which means that I’ve been letting things slip around here lately.  I’m still cooking (even lawyers-by-night have to eat, you see), but I’ve had less time to photograph and write.  The upshot is that I’m really loving my work, though that’s not much of a silver lining for you all, I suppose.
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In the interest of giving myself a little break (and shaking things up (pun intended) a bit too), today’s post offers a glimpse into the past weekend via my phone and the new ShakeIt app I downloaded at Sassy Radish‘s excellent suggestion (warning: it’s incredibly addictive).  Most of the photos are food-related, which just goes to show that cooking and eating and such are still making me smile, even if I don’t always have the time to document it here.  And it also goes to show that I’m thinking about all you out there, even if I’m not here all the time.  Promise.

Kristin at The Kitchen Sink in Chicago on June 09 2009 » 16 comments

waited too long

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Oh, baby.  The Chicago Green City Market has gone open-air again for the summer and I couldn’t resist a visit this morning: the first Saturday of the season.  I woke way too early, with a giddy Christmas-morning-type feeling in my stomach.  As Kevin slept on (can you blame him?), I walked east, under a low, grey sky full of dramatic, ominous clouds.  By the time I hit Lincoln Park, it felt a lot more like late fall than early spring, but those thoughts were immediately wiped away when I saw the white tents and the splendid produce spilling out beneath them.   There were radishes, slim and fushia with white tails and leafy green tops.   And there were truckloads of asparagus, some thick and purple, others slender and green.  One farmer had stacked his spears so high that he could barely see the patrons over the three-foot stack on his table.

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Produce spilled out from yellow bins at the Nichols Farm stand—the same bins that will tote juicy tomatoes in every hue later this summer (though, for now, that almost seems impossible).  People milled about excitedly, huddling against each other and gripping cups of hot Intelligentsia coffee to ward off the wind.

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Kristin at The Kitchen Sink in Chicago on May 09 2009 » 6 comments

Dinner at Wrigley

When it comes to grocery shopping and meal planning, I’m a wee bit crazy. I usually lay out the menu for the week on Saturday or Sunday and do all the shopping then. If we make changes here or there, we can run to the great little market down the street, but most nights, we’re all set. Last week, we had—gasp—a change in plans that left us with a menu-less night. We tossed a couple ideas back and forth before Kevin came back with the winner. He got tickets to Wednesday night’s Cubs-Brewers game at Wrigley. How did I feel about hot dogs and beer for our menu-less night, he wondered.

Well, let me tell you: I felt pretty, pretty great about it. We snapped up the tickets, pretended like it wasn’t 40 degrees outside and made our way over to the Friendly Confines. We got there early to snap a couple photos of what has to be the prettiest ball park on earth.

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Kristin at The Kitchen Sink in Chicago,Uncategorized on May 03 2008 » 5 comments