Cooking Army

With a blizzard bearing down on Chicago, we here at Cooking Army know just what you need to warm your cockles and endure the hardship that will be the next 3-4 months of Winter… Soup! Come on over, plop down on the couch by the fireplace, wrap yourself in a warm blanket, and have a […]

Hello all you crazy kids, Fall is always a weird and excessive time for our appetites. It seems like every culture that actually experiences cold has embraced the idea that we should squander our precious harvest as quickly and voraciously as possible. Perhaps we all instinctively fear the gods will grow fickle again and inflict […]

Eaters of food, For Christmas this year, I was given a new cooking utensil to add to my repertoire, a dutch oven. I’ve been looking for ways to use it over the last couple of weeks and I was given a recommendation to try and make some risotto. To which, I do not believe we […]

Hi Everybody, Just when you thought your holiday season couldn’t be any more calorie rich, it’s time for our annual festival of meat here at the cooking army. Most people who have fallen within a several mile blast radius of my loud complaining know that I typically eschew any form of tradition. So you know […]

Summer is nearly over, but I want to have one more hurrah with my grill before it goes into hibernation for the Fall/Winter. With that in mind, we’ll be chopping everything up and then putting it on the grill for your consumption, as nothing celebrates Summer quite like searing all your food with raw fire. […]

We are proud to present to you this week, a featured vegetable that doesn’t get enough love from most connoisseurs: Asparagus. We bring it to you baked, fried, and roasted. There are various other things that will accompany this delectable vegetable, but our focus is to bring you the perfect asparagus in a way you […]

Hello! Hello! Hello! This week’s Cooking Army is all about kumquats. I know the question you already have: “What is a kumquat?” According to internet sources, a kumquat is an edible fruit closely resembling that of the orange (Citrus sinensis), but it is much smaller, being approximately the size and shape of a large olive. […]

My fellow Cooking Army Eaters, In the past week or so, the political climate has become quite dire or so my facebook feed would tell me. It has become so bad, in fact, that it has driven me to drink. Not only just drink, but drink bourbon. In light of this fact, I would like […]

Am I the only one who’s been dreaming of being on a far away beach, laying on the sand, and feeling the sea breeze while a lanky Mediterranean man yells un-intelligibly in your general direction? Well, I invite you to join in my unconscious delusion by coming to Cooking Army this week for some Greek […]

Hey Kats and Kits, Cooking army is back again with a fistful of taste for your language makers. This week’s cooking army is inspired by the man, the legend, Gaurang Bhide. Gaurang graces our Chicagoan soil by way of one of the bigger cities in the biggest nation on this little blue dot: Mumbai. Before […]