Monday, June 29, 2009

Orange Video DINE-aries

Kev's Review on Orange's Omelette 11.5




Tiff's Review on her Chai Tea French Toast




Kev & Tiff's Review on the Green Eggs & Ham




My Review on the Fruit French Toast Kabob



Orange - Roscoe Village


Make your own freshly squeezed juice @ Orange


Green Eggs & Ham
Pesto Scrambled Eggs with tomatoes, diced ham, ricotta cheese


Chai Tea French Toast
DELICIOUS!!


Kev & his Omelette 11.5


Tiff & her Chai Tea French Toast
(She really likes the bowl it comes in)


Me & My Fruit French Toast Kabob






Sunday, June 21, 2009

Molly's Cupcakes Video DINE-aries


Tiff's video DINE-ary on Molly's Carmel Baked Apple cupcake




My video DINE-ary on Molly's Peanut Butter Nutella cupcake


Molly's Cupcakes - Lincoln Park (Part 2)


After Tiff & I were done with dinner at Aloha Eats, we decided to go to Molly's Cupcakes next door for some dessert. Also, I needed to suffice my Molly's cupcake craving. For a Saturday night, this place was poppin'. There were various groups of friends playing board games, playing trivia, or just simply chatting it up. At one point, there was a line to door just to get some cupcakes. I LOVE MOLLY'S CUPCAKES! It is the best, hands down!


COOKIE MONSTER CUPCAKE CAKE

As we went up to the display case to decide what cupcakes we wanted to try, there was a HUGE Chocolate cupcake staring us in the face. It looked so good, and it was real, not a fake food display. I asked about it and the Molly's associate said that they do sell these of any flavor cupcake that you want for only $25. I know exactly what I want for my birthday cake, a Molly's Strawberry Shortcake Cupcake cake.


Molly's display case of their variety of flavors

All of the cupcakes looked so good, and I like that they include a full description of its ingredients on the name cards.


Tiff's Carmel Baked Apple Cupcake


My Mini Red Velvet & Peanut Butter Nutella Cupcakes


The inside of the Carmel Baked Apple Cupcake is just oozing cinnamon apple goodness


Tiff enjoying her cupcake


The delicious Nutella filling inside my cupcake


Our cupcakes that we took to go:

Strawberry Shortcake
My all-time favorite cupcake! If you've ever had the rectangular Strawberry Layered Cake from the bakery at Jewel, it tastes just like that (I Love That Cake!).

Chocolate Raspberry
This cupcake was very good; however, Tiff didn't get any raspberries until the last 2 bites.

Cookie Monster
This cupcake has a cookie dough filling and it is very dense. If you love cookie dough, this is the cupcake for you. Even the cookie on top of the cupcake was delicious.

Cherry Chocolate Chip
Good cherry flavor, not enough chocolate chips. Tiff was expecting chocolate chips to be inside the cupcake, but we figure, there's only chocolate chips on the frosting.






Aloha Eats Video DINE-aries







Aloha Eats - Lincoln Park



Tiff & I had dinner at Aloha Eats in Lincoln Park, and we're so glad we came. The food was delicious and the prices were excellent. Aloha Eats is definitely not greedy when it comes to serving sizes. This restaurant is made more for take-out than dining in, but they're smart enough to serve the food to you in to-go boxes. Since they give you so much food, you have to take it home. It's great to have a Hawaiian restaurant in Chicago. GO SPAM!


SPAM MASUBI



HAWAIIAN BBQ MIX PLATE

Teriyaki BBQ Beef, Chicken, and Beef Short-Rib
with 2 scoops of rice, cabbage, & macaroni salad
ONLY $8.25!!


HAWAIIAN BBQ MIX PLATE with all of the meat spread out. Look at all the food you get! That's awesome!


SPAM LOCO
with 2 scoops of rice & macaroni salad

Spam and 2 eggs with brown gravy (really good with the brown gravy)


Tiff eating her All Spam Slam: Spam Loco and Spam Masubi


Friday, June 19, 2009

Cheesecake Factory - Oakbrook



The "Mamas" & I went to Cheesecake Factory in Oakbrook for a get together dinner before Jenn goes back to Philly. Cheesecake Factory used to be one of my favorite restaurants, until I discovered Grand Lux, its sister restaurant downtown. I still like Cheesecake Factory nonetheless.


Onion Rings & Stuffed Mushrooms from the Small Plates Menu.

Don't the onion rings look amazing? The stuffed mushrooms were good too. I wish the mushrooms were bigger.


The Cajun Chicken "Littles" don't look very little.


Pasta Da Vinci, one of my favorite Cheesecake Factory dishes


Chicken Piccata


Grilled Pork Chop

This is the "Pork Chops & Applesauce" dish. If you don't like sweet & meat together, then don't eat.


Another Cajun Chicken "Littles" dish. This entree is huge.


My Sausage & Ricotta Small Plate Pizza for only $4.95!

My reason for the sad face: I attempted to take a picture of me and my food, and my whole pizza slid off my plate.


After I picked it up, this is what it looked like.


My favorite Dulce De Leche Cheesecake


I decided to try something different so I got the White Chocolate Caramel Macadamia Nut Cheesecake. So good! Some of the girls thought it tasted like Snickers.


White Chocolate Raspberry Truffle Cheesecake


30th Anniversary Chocolate Cheesecake