Mangia Bob on: April 16, 2013This Weekend - Saturday & Sunday - Bob and Danny of Mangia.tv are marinating the crowd and firin’ up the grills at The Great American Cooking Expo at Arlington Park RaceTrack in Arlington Heights, Illinois. The Great American Cooking Expo It’s Just a Taste Food & Wine Festival Saturday & Sunday – April, 20-21st 11:00 am – 5:00 pm Arlington Park 2000 W Euclid Ave. [...]
Mangia on: October 18, 2012Get a Taste This Saturday October 20, 2012 Bob and Danny are slinging grub from 3-5 at Susanna Farms – a family fun destination we know you’re going to love. And what’s better? Stay in to the evening for the barn dance, featuring Brad Cole! Those of you early to bed types may be relieved [...]
Mangia on: September 27, 2012We Want To Rub (for) You! Bring your family (or your roommates, or your kickball team) out to the Paulina Meat Market, a Lakeview institution, this Saturday September 29. From 10AM to 2PM we’ll be grilling up delicious sample-sized sandwiches and wraps that highlight how great meat gets greater when it is rubbed the right [...]
Mangia on: August 15, 2012How YOU Doin’? We’re a tv show without episodes, per se. Rather, we’ll bring you tidbits, cooking tips, product reviews, and other antics all around the ideas of Cooking, Eating, Drinking, Partying, and Living The Mangia Way.
Mangia on: August 7, 2012We Believe In Chinese Herbs Well, Danny does, at least. And you can see that he knows about eating (and overeating,) and the stomach pain that can sometimes come from indulging too much. The herbalist at Yee Wau Tong Grocery makes a tea to relieve bloating and then some, but you need a prescription from Dr. [...]
Mangia Bob on: July 13, 2012Gravy is a staple of the ever-glowing Mangia spirit. It’s a key part of so many great memories shared with friends and family as well as the whirlwind of maniac moments (that inevitably consume every great gathering in our starred and sordid past). We only have one problem with the gastronomical wonder we hold so [...]
Mangia on: June 28, 2012Fires sparked and roared in the violet pre-dawn light. Young crackles of smoke mixed with frosty breath in a veil of pink mist as the sun began to shine off the ice. So began the 2012 Lake Villa Township Winter Rib Fest. Or so we imagine. We got there four hours late. Everyone (this was [...]
Mangia on: June 27, 2012We’re gonna tell you a hundred times to put a good sear on your meat. And while the boys in the A/V department work up a video for us, we want you to get the basics down now, so there are no impediments to your tackling a Mangia recipe. The goal here is to lock [...]
Mangia on: Your pots and pans are stingy. They don’t want to let go of the most flavorful tidbits and crispies that adhere to the bottom when you’re searing, sautéeing, or roasting. The principle is really simple. Introduce cold liquid to a hot-ass pan, and you’ll set those particles free. We’ll get the lab rats to show [...]
Mangia on: You’re used to flames leaping and lapping at your sausages on the grill – that’s direct grilling and it is hot and hectic. Indirect grilling is a way to cook slow and low, which means tender and juicy, with that same grill, whether gas or charcoal, you’ve used to char burgers and steaks all summer. [...]