Episode 8: Gods, Peanut Butter & Bagels

The most opinionated, least researched show about Chicago, her suburbs, and her culture.
This week, can Mike & Katie convince themselves that anything involving the words peanut butter and cream cheese is healthy? Could it be true? Did out mothers like Gale Gand’s delicious Tru edibles? We announce the next film in the [...]

Masala Yangu in Naperville Closes. People in Naperville Ask, “Who?”

**Update** I just discovered this article that says they’re also hoping to reopen their restaurant in the Chicago metro area.
What is this, “Crush Mike and Katie Day”?  I mean seriously.  First we find out that Cilantro Grill has been transformed into a Pepe’s, making me wonder if it’s 1988 all over again.  Now, we find [...]

Cilantro Grill in Romeoville Under New Management

We met up at Crispy Waffle with a reporter for the Naperville Sun this morning to be part of a feature on local food bloggers.  We were surprised to see that Cilantro Grill is no more.  Instead we have a Pepe’s.  I didn’t even know Pepe’s were still around, much less in Romeoville.
This is some [...]

Breakfast in Cracker Form? Bacon, Egg & Cheese Combos!

We make jokes about how foods that shouldn’t necessarily be mixed together fairly often on Two Bites.  I’m a firm believer that we do not need potato chips that taste like hamburgers or tortilla chips that taste like Mountain Dew.  Of course I’ll try a majority of them, but that doesn’t mean that I think [...]

(Slightly Healthier) Peanut Butter Cookie Pie

I’m pretty sure that whoever decided to mix peanut butter and chocolate together will eventually be dained a saint by some group of people.  It is without a doubt may favorite sugary sweet.  Reese’s may as well have a monthly subscription program, and just send me a monthly supply of Peanut Butter Cups in the [...]

Penny Arcade Yells at Kellogg’s

In what may be the funniest food review I’ve personally read this week, Gabe over at Penny Arcade calls Kellogg’s to task for release LEGO shaped fun snacks.

For those who can’t see the image or the text is just too damn small, here’s the quote:
“I would love to know what sick bastard at Kellogs came [...]

Two Bites in Suburbia Dinner Movie Series #2

The God of Cookery, a brilliant chef who sits in judgement of those who would challenge his title, loses his title when a jealous chef reveals him to be a con-man and humiliates him publicly. As this new chef takes on the God of Cookery’s role, the former God tries to pull himself back on [...]

Vegetarian Chicken & Sausage Gumbo

Being in a relationship with an omnivorous girl, eventually you will run into comments like, “This is so good! I wish you could taste it!” And, of course, I could, yet I choose not to.  My vegetarianism is a choice, mostly for health reasons and a general lack of trust in our country’s ability to [...]

Cake For Breakfast? Now You Can!

Thanks to my friend Jen for passing this link along. If the meat cake wasn’t enough cake shaped protein for your hungry hearts and clogged arteries, someone has come along and created the breakfast cake.

A single serving of this cake will bring you eggs, peppers, sausage, cheese, onion, and bisquick.  And love.  You’ll also [...]

Episode 7: Closed Doors, Severed Limbs, and Vegetarian Gumbo

The only Thai cuisine restaurant in Romeoville closes not with a bang but a whimper.  Mike and Katie introduce and discuss Machine Girl, the first in the Two Bites in Suburbia Dinner Movie Series.  And Mike heads down to New Orleans with some vegetarian gumbo to prove to a coworker that being a vegetarian doesn’t [...]