Posted on 08/20/2022 8:49:08 PM PDT by jfd1776
Unfortunately, Alexis Kishimoto is a nutroot, but in this instance I agree with her: Portillo's.
"Italian beef is a classic Chicago dish that's increased in popularity after the debut of Hulu's "The Bear" earlier this year. The show follows a chef returning to Chicago to run his family's sandwich shop that sells — you guessed it — Italian beef.Originating in Chicago in the 1900s, the iconic sandwiches consist of slow-cooked, thin-cut roast beef and au jus on a French roll.
I wanted to order it at some of the most popular chains, so I asked a Chicagoan for recommendations and settled on three: Buona, Portillo's, and Al's Beef.
Buona's beef was a bit underwhelming, and Al's beef was a bit overpowering.
Portillo's sandwich took the longest to order, but it was by far the best and worth the wait."
Love those shishitos.
Lansing, IL here.
South of us were cornfields.
“My Dad taught me to make a deep “x” with a knife and stuff a garlic clove down in deep, repeatedly. “
That was what my Grandma taught me.
Found out it was quicker to use a big knife and stab harder.
The more garlic the better!!!
My grandparents always smelled funny, and thought it was becuz they were old. They ate a massive amount of garlic.
Until I started using massive garlic in my cooking and started to smell like my Grands.
It was worth it!
Garlic! My dad grew it in his east side garden and ate lots. A month or do after he passed my mom was sitting in a Wendys getting lunch with her buddies. Old duffers at the next table were talking about hearing about Eddie dying. When one of them said Eddie who, another guy said - you know the one that always smelled like garlic. Mom leaned over and said - that was my husband. My grandpa who had emigrated from Yugoslavia was in the army WWI. Everyone in his company died from the flu epidemic. A bunch of doctors examined him to try and find out why he never got sick. And Grandpa said - because I eat garlic. I grow it and eat it too.
My Grandmother was from Yugoslavia and my Grandfather was from the Ukraine.
Garlic people!!
My Grandfather somehow got a job in the US army after the Bolshevik Revolution.
Both paternal grandparents were Serb. Both maternal grandparents Polish. Half breed pureblood here and boy can I cook, I just cannot eat like that anymore. We love our lamb, and I garden, can, make sausage, cheese and sauerkraut.
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