Lobster Omlette

Cape Cod Breakfast, July 31, 2009

A lobster, smoked gouda, and cherry tomato omelet with fresh chives. (Made with fresh Brewster eggs, which taste just like the eggs I remember growing up.)

Local greens with a shallot vinaigrette, and wheat toast with beach plum jelly.

It was really good, except for my not infrequent mistake of overdoing the cheese a bit.

Sole with Lemon Caper Sauce

August 4th, 2009 - Dinner: Sole with Lemon Caper sauce over Spelt cooked with sun dried tomatoes. An Arugula and Cherry Tomato salad with Balsamic vinagarette. Yum!

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First Caprese Salad of Summer

Ahh, the first Caprese Salad of Summer, nuthin better.
The tomatoes aren't ready yet, so I used store bought heirlooms, but the basil is doing great.






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Zen Zoo Tea, Hollywood

I had high hopes for Zen Zoo Tea, on Vine St just north of Sunset Blvd. They serve a wide variety of teas, which are good, as well as Dim Sun. Just recently they added a breakfast menu. Unfortunately, the dim sun is pretty run of the mill, and appears to be commercially packaged frozen. It is somwhat bizzarely served with a bowl of shiracha and hot mustard. It's ok for a quick snack on the way to the Arclight, but if you're looking for real dim sun better to pass by...



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Mother's Day Breakfast

My Mother (and Stepmother) both passed away many years ago. I still like to make a nice breakfast and raise a glass of OJ to remember and thank them.  

This is this year's breakfast: chicken apple sausage from Huntington Meats* in the LA Farmers market, stone ground yellow grits, eggs scrambled with asparagus, and calamata olive sourdough toast.   

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*Huntington Meats is the bomb!  

A truly classic old school butcher shop at the east end of  the LA Farmers Market.  They will cut or prep  whatever you need.   On this past visit Dan told me that they go through 500-600 pounds of their homemade sausage every weekend.  Yow!