Wanna Be Foodie

The City that Never Sleeps......let's be honest it did in 2020 for a hot minute.....but usually it's the city that never sleeps and let me just tell you they come around this eating adventure a few times!  NEW YORK is a place I want to visit as an adult so I can eat my way through it. I know that New York and Chicago have a thing about their pizzas.....this is not that kind of post! The first thing we ordered from New York was one of the BEST sandwiches I HAVE EVER HAD! I want to go there just to have them make it for me.  Katz's Delicatessen   makes an AMAZING Reuben. Before I get to that let's do a little background on them. They have been around since 1888....It started with two brothers, and then they were bought out as they brought people on. On the Lower East side they are a staple and on Friday nights everyone would turn out for some franks and beans (what they are known for). During WWII all of the owner's sons (three of them) were serving in the war. They w

 Like I said before we are from the Chicagoland area where we love our hot dogs and deep dish pizza. This whole adventure started right after my birthday! What a way to start a birthday....right! No worries. We had a great time as a family. We have some favorites we always order from when we are missing home. (Don't worry Illinois comes back around and we don't order our usual.) If you have never been to Chicago to visit you are missing out. There is so much to do and so much to see. Also the food scene in the city is one to explore. If you have been there to visit what are your must haves when you go there? For us every time we visit home we have a list of restaurants we have to go to......Portillos, Lou's, Rock Bottom, Jackson' Ave Pub, Nicky's, the list could go on and on. Now I want to visit home so I can eat all the things.....hopefully that time will come.  Here's what we ordered before we even thought this was something we would be doing 11 months later. 

Who doesn't love to travel and try new foods? This is something my family loves to do. We love visiting new places and finding those hole in the wall, or restaurants we have never had before.  Then March of 2020 hit and travel stopped! Trips cancelled!  We are originally from the Chicagoland area, where there is deep dish pizza, delicious hot dogs, and any kind of food you can think of on most street corners. We love getting deep dish pizza and hot dogs from Portillo's shipped to use multiple times a year. My husband had this idea to start ordering food from all 50 states. Now we didn't think we would be in this pandemic as long as we have been, but it is what it is at this point. We started with Illinois....hello we know what we love from there....and branched out from there.  Follow along to see the foods we ate, what we loved and didn't love, and who knows maybe you will be inspired to try something new along the way. Who knows I might throw in some fun recipes we tr