Remember to take the wrapping off first ........:D

A group of us drove 40 miles to take a friend out for a birthday breakfast to the nearest Bob Evans. He's from Ohio originally and loves their biscuits and gravy. One perfectly hideous breakfast. I had the good sense to have two eggs over easy (slightly overdone), hash browns (tasted like oil), sausage patties (pretty good) and biscuits with honey (not bad).

I agree with your friend. Bob Evans has extremely good biscuits and gravy.:)

If I was in Hampshire I would wash it down with Eldridge Pope - or is that another brewery that has been absorbed/gone under since I left the UK?

BTW I was boring and went to the Argossy Casino in Kansas City Missouri and had the buffet. Shrimp, sushi, olives smoked salmon and crème cheese washed down with cranberry juice. It was darn good though.

Admiral's Ale is our house ale ... it is wonderful.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_F18sSDu5OX...%2527s+Ale.JPG

and Paulaner our house German ... it tasted just like it is straight from the barrel and actualy develops a lovely head if allowed to mature way past it's use by date. We're currently drinking beer that is around 9 months over date and it has the most wonderful tight mousse ....

No filthy jokes please.

http://www.austrianbeer.co.uk/images/paulaner.jpg

Eldridge Pope was sold to Marstons some time ago and the brewery was sadly transformed last year into a designer village with spa hotel

Breakfast: Leftover slice of thin crust pizza topped with smoked salmon and proscuitto. Koi-kee almond biscuit. Mug of Darjeeling tea.

Lunch: Leftover spicy Chinese eggplant chicken stew over rice. Broccoli sauteed in garlic.

Afternoon tea: Papaya, snow-fungus, almond sweet soup. Assorted fresh moiji from Tokyo. Oolong tea.

Dinner: Cantonese pressed salt duck. Hairy gourd stuffed with pork and shitake. Cantonese herbal soup.

Evening snack: Malteser bunny. "Sow-Mei" Chinese white tea.

lunch@home

Grilled sea bream with hollandaise sauce and sautéed charlottes and green beans. A bottle of Pecheur.

Breakfast: Banana pancakes with maple syrup.

Lunch: Lamb Roganjosh with rice

Afternoon snack: Portuguese egg custard tart. Milk-tea

Dinner: Thai fish cakes, steamed red snapper, morning glory sauteed with fish sauce and garlic.

Jakarta

-Cakalang rabe (smoked skipjack tuna, fragmented, with bird's eye chilies, tomatoes and onions, I think), dabu2 (chilies, tomatoes and onion, more likely), saos rica (tomatoes and chilies, potentially an onion), steamed white rice, and an avocado shake with chocolate syrup

-various gelatinous cakes, Medan-style (one had pandan, another had cassava)

-cobra sate

-monkey soup

-nasi kuning cakalang (yellow coconut-rice {at least to me it tasted of coconut}, though it could've had turmeric too, with smoked and shredded skipjack tuna, tomatoes and cucumbers on the side) and saos rica

Location: My Kitchen Manhattan
Meal: Dinner

No fry eggplant parm with lots of herbs and sauced I jarred in the fall.

Home made bacon jam! I have to resist more than a bit on a slice of a baguette and save for the weekend!

First day in I don't know how long that I skipped breakfast. I overslept by 40 minutes and had to rush to make it to work on time which meant I didn't eat until lunch, very unusual for me.

lunch@home:

Carne de Res y Setas y Cebollas en Rioja con Hierbas y Arroz


.... with a bottle of Panades ....


(Well if you make boeuf bourguignon with Rioja .... with herbs and rice you have to name it proper!)

Breakfast on the run: Hot sausage roll with herbed pork sausage. Box of soy milk

Lunch: Steamed ginger milk custard, savory pastry stuffed with nuts and oysters

Dinner: Pan-fried dumplings, sweet fresh tofu

Grilled sea bass with mash charlottes and petit pois with a bottle of Pecheur.