Food Tattoo

04/14/2014

Sunday afternoon comfort food...
Grilled mozzarella and shaved parmesan, with pepperoni, garlic salt, and olive oil...
You could be eating this food...
Let's do this...

04/08/2014

This could be your dinner...
Spinach salad with strawberries, crisp bacon, pan-seared herbed chicken, walnuts, goat cheese, hard boiled egg and poppy-seed dressing...
Pinot Grigio and Ray LaMontagne...

06/20/2013

...could be later too...and lots of chamber of commerce people there, if that helps...

06/20/2013

so...any of my local friends feel like doing a friend a favor? catering a business open house this afternoon/tonight in orland park and i'm looking for a few pics...say around 5-5:30...payment? i can make you a pizza or sing you a song...message me here...

02/26/2013

You can listen to "The Restless Wheel" in its entirety here:
http://www.chuckandersonband.com/home.cfm

Singer... Songwriter... Storyteller... Poet... Gypsy... That's what's inside always trying to get out... Check out "Confessions" - a CD of original songs... Lyrics on the "Blog" page...fragments, a few new ones, and stuff from my head... Photos - some new, some not so new... Upcoming shows - come on...

02/22/2013

Family and friends...along with cooking, I love music...in particular, making it...wrote and recorded a song with the idea of helping people affected by Hurricane Sandy...here's the relief organization I've chosen...please consider taking a look at what they're doing, consider making a donation to "The Restless Wheel" fundraiser, and then let me know and I'll send you the song "The Restless Wheel" for download...
100% of your donation goes to Waves for Water and the Hurricane Sandy Initiative...they get it all and I get the satisfaction of knowing I made an attempt to help...
Pretty simple...thanks so much...

http://www.wavesforwater.org/fundraiser/541

My "comrades-in-creation" were: Tristan Geiger on keys and strings; Makena Hartlin on background vocals; Dave Scala on drums; Brad Heilman on bass; and Mike Brezen on guitar, recording, editing, arranging...and pushing me to pull out as close to my best as I've been able to this far...thanks everyone...you all rock...

After seeing the chaos Hurricane Sandy left behind, I wrote and recorded a song that I hope captures the resolve and spirit to fight on and rebuild. I wanted to do something and this is the only gift I could give... I'm New Jersey born and bred, and eve...

01/24/2013

“A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.” - Thomas Keller

11/22/2012

Write the best caption for this pic (as judged by my panel of judges - my family) and you'll get a free pizza from Food Tattoo...Happy Thanksgiving (ps - you have to be local - I'm not driving a pizza to New jersey...) (pss - contest ends after the last football game is over thanksgiving night...)

01/05/2012

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01/01/2012

remember the first time we ate there...'88 or '89...remember guest chef'ing there several times...amazing place...amazing chef...amazing food and inspiration...

Charlie Trotter, the celebrated Chicago chef, told the Sun-Times in an exclusive interview that he will close his eponymous restaurant on Armitage in August, after 25 years in business.