August 2009 Archives

A few weeks ago, okay, almost two months ago now, I decided to make homemade bagels. I admit it, I’m a bagel snob. Most bagels you get these days are just round bread with a hole in the middle. Too soft, no crust. Bleh. Not even worth eating.

Granted there are a few places to get good bagels in Chicago, one of my favorite being New York Bagel & Bialy in Niles; however this isn’t very convenient for us city folk. While there are a few places in the city that import their bagels from Skokie (Eleven City Diner and Beans & Bagels come to mind), sometimes you just have to take matters into your own hands.