Early Birthday Celebration - Red Light, West Loop - Chicago

Green beans with a caramel garlic sauce.

Sesame noodles, vegetarian.

Seared Ahi tuna with sesame seeds, and salad.

Traditional pad thai.

Lychee martini and mango martini. 

The best way to celebrate a 39++ birthday! Lychee martini and good friends!

1st birthday dinner

Tamales, corn, yellow rice. Sangria cocktail.

Miso Cod with Wasabi Mash Potatoes made for Jen.

5 Year Wedding Anniversary Cocktails

Asparagus rolls (at Asparagus, Merrillville, Ind.)

Beef lemongrass sate.

Caprese Salad at Lucrezia's (Crown Point, Ind.)

Limoncello Lemon Drop Martinis

Sunday Morning Elixir

Fresh carrot and apple juice. Really good with a small knob of fresh ginger too.

Vegetable Pie

Checkout the vegetable pie I made. It is featured in the Gatehouse Holiday Cookbook. 

It looked better than it tasted. The recipe was a tad off. But I should have known better than to use all the sesame oil that the recipe asked for. Not sure where the original recipe was from, it was something we were asked to make and photograph for the Cookbook.

Out on the town

Cocktails at Japonais, Chicago.

The Floating Orchid

Lovely eats at Thalia Spice, Chicago

Saigon Rolls and Lettuce Wraps (in an egg cup)

Mango Scallops

Karma Sutra

Sake and Singh (Sake Bombs anyone?)