Favorite Place To Get Drunk
Okay, found a new favorite place to drink. Free shots, lots of food...hell, I didn't even get carded! Yes, I'm 33 and shouldn't be carded anymore, but I do get carded more than half the time still.
Where is this Utopia, this drinking heaven? Where else but Cub Foods! Yes, I was in Chicago over the weekend for a dinner party at my cousin's house. My friend Amy and I decided to make a Paula Dean recipe that she saw on FoodTV the day before (Tassie Cups With Lemmon Curd Filling if you're interested). Anyway, in order to make these Tassie cups we needed to get:
1. A food processor (Bed, Bath and Beyond had them for $200, umm...too much. target had one for $50, guess which we got)
2. A zester (Bed, Bath and Beyond had them but we decided to just wait until we got to Target. no, Target doesn't have them, neither did Cubs. Ended up using a cheese-grater McGuyver style)
3. A hand juicer...no luck finding this, just ended up using my manly-muscles (Ha!)
4. All of the ingredients, which is what brought us to Cubs
So we are wandering around Cub Foods and get to the dairy section. There's a guy there with a booth of free samples. I do like free samples, especially when they are samples of Absolut. Amy had 3 shots of raspberry absolut, I had 2, and yes...it worked, we ended up buying a bottle to drink while we tried to cook. Nothing better than getting a buzz at the grocery store, if they did that at my local Kroger I'd surely shop more often.
Anyway, we made the Tassie cups, was quite the ordeal and I once again proved my lack of kitchen prowess. I suck as a cook, I try, but I suck. Amy finally put me on clean-up duty because she couldn't take watching me dump salt all over the counter again. Sadly, I'm not even sure if you need salt in the recipe. But, we finally got them cooked and were ready to leave to make the 6 o'clock dinner party at 6:00. Got lost on the way there, so we didn't get there until 7. Was okay, most people had started eating but the food was good and we had a good time. My cousin's husband owns a chocolate factory (Chocolate Potpourri) in Glenview and took Amy and I on a tour where we got to eat free truffles until we both ended up feeling sick. All in all a good day.
Much better than Sunday morning when she was so busy flipping someone off that she didn't see the car coming at us. Karma is real, if you are driving in downtown Chicago turning left onto an onramp, don't flip someone off or you will get hit. Her car lost the battle, but noone was hurt and I managed to pull the front bumper away from the tire enough to get us home.
Still, even with the car accident, it came right after eating a deep-fried Twinkie, so it was hard to get upset, right Amy?
Where is this Utopia, this drinking heaven? Where else but Cub Foods! Yes, I was in Chicago over the weekend for a dinner party at my cousin's house. My friend Amy and I decided to make a Paula Dean recipe that she saw on FoodTV the day before (Tassie Cups With Lemmon Curd Filling if you're interested). Anyway, in order to make these Tassie cups we needed to get:
1. A food processor (Bed, Bath and Beyond had them for $200, umm...too much. target had one for $50, guess which we got)
2. A zester (Bed, Bath and Beyond had them but we decided to just wait until we got to Target. no, Target doesn't have them, neither did Cubs. Ended up using a cheese-grater McGuyver style)
3. A hand juicer...no luck finding this, just ended up using my manly-muscles (Ha!)
4. All of the ingredients, which is what brought us to Cubs
So we are wandering around Cub Foods and get to the dairy section. There's a guy there with a booth of free samples. I do like free samples, especially when they are samples of Absolut. Amy had 3 shots of raspberry absolut, I had 2, and yes...it worked, we ended up buying a bottle to drink while we tried to cook. Nothing better than getting a buzz at the grocery store, if they did that at my local Kroger I'd surely shop more often.
Anyway, we made the Tassie cups, was quite the ordeal and I once again proved my lack of kitchen prowess. I suck as a cook, I try, but I suck. Amy finally put me on clean-up duty because she couldn't take watching me dump salt all over the counter again. Sadly, I'm not even sure if you need salt in the recipe. But, we finally got them cooked and were ready to leave to make the 6 o'clock dinner party at 6:00. Got lost on the way there, so we didn't get there until 7. Was okay, most people had started eating but the food was good and we had a good time. My cousin's husband owns a chocolate factory (Chocolate Potpourri) in Glenview and took Amy and I on a tour where we got to eat free truffles until we both ended up feeling sick. All in all a good day.
Much better than Sunday morning when she was so busy flipping someone off that she didn't see the car coming at us. Karma is real, if you are driving in downtown Chicago turning left onto an onramp, don't flip someone off or you will get hit. Her car lost the battle, but noone was hurt and I managed to pull the front bumper away from the tire enough to get us home.
Still, even with the car accident, it came right after eating a deep-fried Twinkie, so it was hard to get upset, right Amy?
posted by TennesseeJed at 6:14 AM
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