Tag: Chicago Sausage

  • Spartan Brothers Greek Grocery Review, Chicago, IL

    One of the joys (for me) of living in Chicago (or any big city and I’ve lived in a raft of them!) is having access to a preponderance of ethnic supermarkets. Within 20 minutes of me, I can partake of markets dedicated to Italian food, Indian, Asian, Polish, Ukrainian, Spanish, Middle Eastern, and Greek. It’s […]

  • Schmeissers Sausage Review, Niles, IL

    One of the thing that delights me about living in a larger city is having a wide variety of ethnic grocers, and Chicago has some great ones. We have Asian grocers, Indian, Eastern European, Greek, Polish, Italian, and I love them all. Chicago is big on Polish restaurants and markets as the population of Poles […]

  • Meeskes / Haybeck’s, Chicago Butchers

    Sometimes I wish there was an illustrated dictionary of food.  There would be a photo, a list of ingredients, and a description of how the product is supposed to taste and what the texture should be.  If there was, beside the entry for “Italian Sausage” would be the hand-stuffed sausages at Meeske’s and Haybeck’s butcher […]

  • Home Cookin’ – Greenridge Farm’s Black Jack Sausage (New Product)

    I spotted these a couple weeks ago, but didn’t pick any up until yesterday. They are a premium sausage, clocking in at about a buck each, and their dark color and a natural casing were the draw for me.  These are apparently so new that they aren’t described on the manufacturer’s website, a suburban Chicago […]