Category: Bread
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Marie Callenders Biscuit Mix Review
Spoiler alert. I could give a shit about biscuits. One of my biggest fears is seeing them included with a menu item and the words “no substitutions” appear right beside that notation. I’d rather have toast. Under any circumstances. But you know, people come to be fed a lot around here and on occasion, they […]
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Anns Bakery & Deli Review, Ukrainian Village, Chicago
The first time I was in Russia it was before “the change.” It was not unusual to see dozens or hundreds of people in line at food stores, even though they knew that probably there would be no inventory. Outside of each subway station there were long lines of people selling ‘silly’ things: one shoe, two inches of vodka in […]
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Krusteaz No Knead Bread Mix Review
“No Knead Bread” was all the rage of the NY restaurant scene for awhile, and the NY Times subsequently offered a recipe for a home version. It required no real ability for the home baker, other than patience, as it requires nearly 24 hours of rising/resting. After that, follow the instructions, and you (most times) […]
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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 […]
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Hometown Bagels Review
Having been a bagel muncher for many decades, I was suprised to note in a store the other day a package of “Chicago style” bagels. Who knew? Whereas most consumers of bagels (and pizza for that matter) are familiar with “New York Style” bagels (and pizza), afficianados insists “it’s the water” that makes those products […]
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Greek Islands Review, Lombard, IL
Greeks began arriving in Chicago around the 1840s, mostly off ocean freighters where they worked as crew and captains. Many originally settled in an area of the West Loop, and took up jobs operating food carts, until they saved or pooled their dough to open small cafes in the area now known as “Greektown.” Around […]
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Chicken Fried Steak Recipe – Weekend Breakfasts At My House
When I was growing up, it was etched in stone that the family had a big Saturday breakfast together; often my dad cooked the elaborate set-up, which might have been steak and eggs, pancakes or waffles, fruit turnovers, sausage or bacon. It got so that friends of me and my siblings wanted to do sleepovers on Friday nites just for the […]
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O&H Bakery Racine, WI
My mother loved Kringles. What are they? A Scandinavian confectionary pastry, multiple layers of thin, flaky baked dough, in a horseshoe shape, with layers separated by a wide variety of your choice of fillings/toppings like berry, almond, chocolate and the like. More on the origin. My mother, or parents, really, took delight in having certain things […]
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Pub 72 Review, Gilberts, IL
I’ve been on a mission to have weekend breakfasts at rural locations in Illinois, and today we hit the Pub 72 Bar & Grill in Gilberts, IL. The “72” is after the number of the highway, and if memory serves me, is a rather new name. Not sure if the change also represented a change […]
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Holi Cannoli Review – Elkhorn, WI
Seems like lately I’ve been hitting “out of the way” pizza places like this one, on US Highway 12, 6.5 miles north of Elkhorn, WI and the junction of 12 and I-43. It’s about a 15 minute drive from the popular Lake Geneva recreation area in Southern Wisconsin. I’ve driven by this place many […]