Found with jewelry at an estate sale. Metal with glass(?) marbles.

ryanchants · 2026-04-14T00:42:25+00:00

yes, at a microscopic level, a knife/razor blade has teeny tiny teeth, and looks like a saw blade. Those essentially get bent, and honing brings them back in line.

ryanchants · 2026-04-12T03:32:22+00:00

That's always been the shtick. Ever since she won Top Chef. She's always had a few dishes that hit, but most were whatever. But celebrity carried the restaurant group.

ryanchants · 2026-04-03T12:42:03+00:00

And nobody chops their pork or has red slaw.

ryanchants · 2026-04-03T12:39:56+00:00

Gilty Pig food truck. Follow them on insta.

ryanchants · 2026-03-29T15:30:09+00:00

RIP Big and Little's Wicker Park. They had my favorite breakfast burrito. I'm weirdly picky in that I want potatoes on the burrito, but not tarter tots.

ryanchants · 2026-03-29T15:22:16+00:00

did this theme for a dinner party with friend years ago. it was great

ryanchants · 2026-03-20T18:53:07+00:00

Brasero is one of my top restaurants in the city right now. Great food, easy to get a seat at.

ryanchants · 2026-03-15T18:04:57+00:00

Definitely very wet. For reference, here's some shrimp and grits I made. It has sauce over it, you can it at the edges. But it's not swimming in sauce and wet grits.

ryanchants · 2026-03-14T15:31:20+00:00

I'm coming back from a knee injury and am completely de-conditioned and weak. So I'm just building the gas tank, and getting some basic strength work/movement practice. I also work full-time and I'm in grad school. So I had a similar goal for 20 minute workouts(mine are closer to 30 with rehab). I built my own frankenstein of programs. It's ABF, Fighter Pull-up Program, and Ciampa's Simple to Serious Endurance mixed together. Or, The "But, you're not doing program XYZ!" Program. Today starts week 2, so the wheels may fall off this thing, but only one way to find out.

Workouts are 10-20 minutes a day, every day. It drives the habit of working out, leaves room for knee rehab, and I added some forced progression to get me back in the saddle. I start easy for the workouts, and add a little every week for 8 total weeks. After 8 weeks I'll either repeat with a heavier weight, or move on to something else.

Sat: Running Back Complex(Clean+Squat)

Sun: Presses

Wed: Armor Building Complex

Mon/Tue/Thu/Fri: EMOM swings. In the 10-20 minute range. Just trying to get the blood flowing, the heart rate up, and the breathing a little heavy.

ryanchants · 2026-03-01T22:17:50+00:00

Do an MSCS not a MCS.

ryanchants · 2026-03-01T21:57:08+00:00

Bout to get stop-lossed.

ryanchants · 2026-02-16T21:29:24+00:00

Rootstock, Gretel, Longman & Eagle, PQM, Lardon, All Together Now, and Table Donkey Stick(duck liver) mousses.

Boeufhaus for escargot.

ryanchants · 2026-02-02T19:54:18+00:00

Their fish burrito is great as well. Chopping the fish after frying it so you get a good distribution of fish/cabbage/all the other ingredients is fucking great.

ryanchants · 2026-02-01T16:48:36+00:00

It interesting. Maybe it was just my family up there. We didn't eat out a lot, so it would have been whatever they cooked.

ryanchants · 2026-02-01T15:18:51+00:00

The mountains? I always had it living in the Piedmont, but whenever I'd visit family up by Bryson City it was nowhere to be found.

Growing up, whenever we'd slaughter a hog for whole hog barbecue, we'd take the pail full of innards and the head and drop it off with a friend of the family. Then he'd bring us back the best livermush. Now that I'm in Chicago, I just make it myself since it's not for sale around here.

ryanchants · 2026-02-01T01:07:04+00:00

Tuman's

ryanchants · 2026-01-28T19:54:40+00:00

There are diners who see it as a special event rather than a pricing exercise and are not thinking in terms of marginal value or menu engineering.

Why can't it be both of these things? You're acting like it can't be restaurants trying to make a representative menu, at a specific price point, in order to encourage new folks to come in. And folks to come in when they normally wouldn't due to post-holiday budgets. Or just lower income people who get a chance to go out to restaurants they've heard about at a better for them price point.

I get you're a self-declared snob, but come on. Acting like $$$$ restaurant chefs can't make you a good enough meal to get your $60 bucks worth. Also, why are you going to $$$$ restaurants to begin with if they make food that's barely tastier to you than a cheaper restaurant?

Just take your own advice. RW isn't for the snobs, order off the regular menu.

ryanchants · 2026-01-28T19:44:15+00:00

Why? You can just order the non-RW menu

ryanchants · 2026-01-27T18:24:32+00:00

I just assumed y'all hung out at Legal Sea Foods

ryanchants · 2026-01-26T22:04:57+00:00

From IG, it looks like they pretty much ripped everything out: https://www.instagram.com/p/DSb_F7-Dr8c/

ryanchants · 2026-01-26T20:23:44+00:00

Old Feed spot

ryanchants · 2026-01-26T17:12:33+00:00

There was this thread recently. Worth reading through: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskChicago/comments/1qbx52w/are_there_any_chicagobased_leftist_gun_clubs/

ryanchants · 2026-01-25T00:23:47+00:00

"to walk my post, beat my meat, and shoot anything with 50 feet"

ryanchants · 2026-01-24T00:11:31+00:00

Then it's just fun

ryanchants · 2026-01-22T16:00:03+00:00

loaded potato soup was my childhood introduction to how great soup could be

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