Healthifying Food & Wine’s Frittata

Food & Wine has some delicious recipes lurking within the pages of their monthly magazine. Those recipes, however, do very little for people trying to help watch what they’re eating.  A combination of cream, butter, oil and eggs can be found in most of the recipes; and of course they are, because they are delicious. [...]

Oh Boy! Waffles!

I’m not quite sure why Better Homes & Gardens refers to these as “Oh Boy” waffles, but here’s a nice, simple recipe for some waffles that I jazzed up just a little bit with some spices I refer to as the “holy trinity” of comfort baking: cinnamon, all-spice, and nutmeg.  I also threw some Ghiradelli [...]

Fritz Pastry Press Release

Oh look, a Fritz Pastry press release.  Why yes, it was written by me. For Immediate Release CHICAGO, IL — There’s something to be said for good food that’s also affordable.  Too often nowadays, niche bakeries and cafes are moving towards the “couture” or “boutique” end of the spectrum, without looking back at the rest [...]

A Very Fritz Pastry Q&A

I met up with Elaine Heaney, Nathaniel Meads and Jared Nance, the partners behind Fritz Pastry, a couple weeks before their grand opening to talk about a variety of topics, including why they decided now was the time to open up their own café, their history in the food industry, and who would win in [...]

Episode 10: Newspapers, Steel Wool & Sweet, Sweet Honey

It’s all restaurant reviews and self promotion in the epic 10th episode of Two Bites In Suburbia, still the most opinionated & least researched about the food and culture of the Chicago suburbs. Links! Naperville Sun & Joliet Herald article about food bloggers. Auld Dubliner in Bolingbrook Honey Cafe in Glen Ellyn E-mail us: twobitesinsuburbia@gmail.com [...]

Honey – Glen Ellyn, IL

I haven’t been to Glen Ellyn often.  It’s one of those cities that just never really hits my radar.  I can even tell you the last time I was there.  It was the summer of 2000.  I was but a young lad, new to the world of art house films.  My friends asked if I [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Washington D.C. – The Misses #4

#4 – Cake Love If you’ve ever watched Food Network, you’ve more than likely seen an episode of Warren Brown’s Sugar Rush. We had a few hours to kill on our final morning before the flight back to Chicago, so we decided to take a walk up to U Street and check out his bakery [...]

How To Make Pancakes Like A Crack Addict

I just had to share this truly bizarre link shared with me earlier today. How To Make Pancakes Like A Crack Addict