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Chicago: Tacos & Ceviche at Cantina 1910 – NOW CLOSED

Maris Callahan — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 05:00:29 +0000

Located in Andersonville, Cantina 1910 is a Mexican restaurant that merges the diverse cuisine of Mexico with the bounty of Midwestern farms and producers to innovate traditional Mexican dishes. Do you like to visit restaurants when they first open, or do you like to give them some times to iron out the kinks, perfect the service and tweak their menus? Even though there is definitely an excitement to getting a table at a hot new restaurant the week it opens, I’m on Team Wait. I like to read reviews, hear feedback from friends and know what I’m getting into before I eat someplace. Of course, there are exceptions, but I’ve also been to far too many openings where I was so excited to eat amazing food at a new spot in town only to be hugely disappointed in the experience. In the past month or so, I’ve been to two much hyped spots within weeks of their openings. At one, the food was hugely disappointing and at the other, the service was awful. Both had potential to be far better, so I wonder if had we waited longer to try each restaurant, we’d have had a better experience. Even so, I hesitate to […]

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Chipotle Refried Black Beans

Maris Callahan — Tue, 10 May 2011 12:00:34 +0000

We all have guilty pleasures. I saw a Friends episode (too) many years ago in which Rachel claimed her favorite movie was Dangerous Liaisons when her actual favorite movie is Weekend at Bernie’s. Though I won’t claim to ever have seen Dangerous Liaisons, I do have an equally embarrassing food confession to make today. I really like fat-free re-fried beans. They come in a can and smell vaguely like dog food but they’re creamy, filling and in my opinion, better than the too-greasy alternative that so many brands tout. Luckily, there is a happy medium between quasi-dog food and bean cooked cups of animal lard and that happy medium comes in the form of chipotle refried black beans. Behold – chipotle black beans. I love just about anything with the word chipotle in it, even though it often means that your food is going to be excruciatingly spicy. This recipe calls for two teaspoons, which I found to be just enough to add a little kick but not so much that you wanted to physically remove your mouth from your face. If you enjoy the latter sensation, feel free to up the ante and add an extra teaspoon or two […]

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Butternut Squash and Black Bean Enchilada Bake

Maris Callahan — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:44:19 +0000

Have you ever encountered an ingredient that you’ve heard of, eaten in restaurants and knew you liked, but because you’ve never cooked with it you assumed it must be hard and avoided it? Wait, don’t answer that. Yes you have. I know you have because I have and I want to assume that you are all standing with me in solidarity in what was once a fear – maybe even a phobia – of cooking with chipotle chili peppers in adobo sauce. I’ve been on a major spicy kick lately, first with pumpkin and black bean enchiladas and later with white bean and apple chili that I am almost certain I over-seasoned with medium hot chili powder that was in no way medium. That was not a bad thing. This recipe was almost serendipitous. I had butternut squash. I had chipotle flavored tortillas, I had black beans and I had Monterey jack cheese. On a whim, I plucked a can of chipotle chili peppers in adobo sauce from the shelf in the ethnic foods section at Whole Foods because I had never cooked with them before and it couldn’t be that hard, right? Before you knew it, I had dinner […]

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