Wednesday, November 17, 2010

The simple things...

On a recent and all too infrequent trip to the beach sans children, we wandered into a small restaurant for breakfast. We sat at the counter, across from this "toaster." The waiter placed some bread on, closed the lid and walked away. There it sat for, no kidding, 15 minutes. I had no idea that miracles can happen in just 15 minutes. This glorious machine produced toast that was golden and crunchy throughout. Served with a trio of pepper jellies, and oddly enough, salsa. Salsa? Yes, salsa! Genius.
Tony, this next picture counts as one of your Christmas presents.

I Also Like Soup

Cold and rainy weather requires the intake of tomato soup. Really rainy and cold and windy weather requires the intake of spicy tomato and blue cheese soup with a dollop of creme fraiche, hazelnut and parsley salsa verde, a bacon chip, and olive oil fried croutons. May as well serve it with a fennel and apple salad.

But the real kicker of the meal of course, is the huge plate of chicken nuggets. Mmm, chicken nuggets.