Friday Food 11-22-19

Tonight I have food yearnings!  Unfortunately they must be unfulfilled as Haven no longer serves the lamb burger. 

But if I could have a perfect dinner tonight......

This is the wonderful lamb burger with my fingerprint in the bun.  I started to cut it and remembered to take a picture. 

The burger is topped with sprouts and their "secret" sauce. 

Fabulous fries which are cut in house without any sulfites added.  The house-made catsup is also fabulous, but I found out it has cinnamon in it, which doesn't bother me, but does bother some close friends.  Diner beware!

For dessert I would have some olallieberry pie which I eat when I go to Pacific Grove, CA.  It is sometimes available at the Red House and also, sometimes, at the local grocery. 

Nice flaky crust and chockful of olallieberries. 

Along with the pie, a nice strong latte.  This one was at Jeannine's in Montecito, CA.  Forget the cookies, they were very tasty, but not with olallieberry pie! 

Instead for dinner I had canned chicken noodle soup (low sodium) from Progresso.  It is okay, but not my dream dinner. 

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Hwy 101 North 12-27-07

On Hwy 101 North - I think this is near Mussel Shoals - at 7am.

Jeannine's in Montecito, CA. Right across the street from Trattorie Mollie, one of Oprah's favorite local spots.

Chicken sausage, mushroom, red pepper scramble and one of those elegant lattes I have spoken about previously. At 7:40am- a very early breakfast for this night owl. But 'Yumm-O'!

North of Santa Barbara the highway hugs the coast, although the RR tracks run between the highway and the blue Pacific Ocean. On the horizon are two offshore rigs and to the left Channel Islands National Park - probably the two larger islands, Santa Rosa and Santa Cruz.

Lattes with a friend. Sep 16,2007

My friend Liz Williams met me for coffee this morning at a Starbucks. Even though Liz has a full time job, I consider her my "chasing around" friend. We go to local quilt shows, on shopping excursions, out for lunch and have driven up to Pacific Grove and back a number of times to attend the Empty Spools Quilting Conferences. Liz is a great traveling companion, always game to stop and see things along the way. I had Corky with me this morning so we chose a Starbucks with a nice patio and I carried his 'boat bed' (so called because it is shaped like a skiff) so he wouldn't have to lay on the dirty cement. If one wants a white dog one must take steps to keep him white! He was so good and stayed in his bed all the time we were drinking and gabbing. Whenever we have coffee anywhere I think of these two very special lattes - aren't they cute?

This is how they serve lattes at Jeannine's American Cafe in Montecito (there is a sister cafe in Santa Barbara), our favorite lunch stop on Hwy 101. We had previously been served w/smiley faces and stars, but I thought the barista went out of his way on these we were served this past March. When Elizabeth Barton and I stopped last month my latte was without a picture. Just like a child I was disappointed and didn't think it tasted as good as those I had in the past!

Corky is home in his own bed tonight and we don't have another 'date' for almost a month. I always miss him a lot after we have spent several weekends together.