I know, I know. Today is Wednesday. But the post today is all about Food on Friday – last Friday, May 20th, to be exact. So I thought I’d share it before this coming Friday rolls around. 
To start last Friday off, Chris and I went out for breakfast. We don’t go out to breakfast that often, so it was the first time we’d tried a place a couple of blocks away from where we’re staying, that billed itself as a “local institution” for breakfast: Julia’s of Wallingford. . The first item on the menu was an upscale Cinnamon roll:
Cinnamon Yum Yum: Fresh baked cinnamon roll from our bakery: sliced and dipped in our l’orange crème. Grilled and served with orange butter and syrup
Cinnamon Yum Yum, Seattle
It’s like French toast, but made with a cinnamon roll. It was OK. It had an orangey flavor from the batter, which was a nice touch. But overall, a cinnamon roll doesn’t really need to be french toast, IMHO.
Of course, we did get spoiled in the Basque country last year. We had a dessert there called
torrija empapada en yemas de huevo y nata fresca, caramelizada en la sartén, con held causer, roughly translated as “French with cartelized sugar” (with a side of homemade ice cream). What a great concept for a dessert. Sadly, I have no photo of that wonderful dessert, even though Chris and I ate it at least 3 times on that trip. But we’ve looked through all our photos and can’t find a single photo of something that was truly “Yum Yum.” Ah well. We’ll just have to go back and have it again, clearly. Just for the blog, of course.
Anyway, in the evening we went out to dinner at an Italian restaurant. We had an appetizer and then two of their fresh pasta dishes:
Grilled Octopus with chickpea puree
Ramp ravioli with fava beans and sun-dried tomatoes
Squid-ink linguini with seafood in a marinara sauce
The grilled octopus dish was a little odd, which is why I have presented it oddly in the photo. At least it adds some interest.
Ramp is a vegetable related to a green onion, and I guess it’s trendy? Anyway, the ravioli wasn’t bad, but it was an overly small serving for an overly high price, IMHO. The linguini with seafood – meh. Ah well. We should know better, but we are always optimistic that an Italian restaurant will be good. Even if we’re not always in Italy – and last May 20th that’s where we were. So it’s not fair to compare that meal to this year’s offering. It’s inevitable, though, since May 20th is our wedding anniversary, and a certain amount of reminiscing goes with the territory on those occasions. But apparently the food last year was so good that I didn’t take any photos, though — so at least this year we have something to remember the meals by in this blog post, because I’m not sure that they otherwise would be very memorable.
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BTW, there are references to places being “a couple of blocks from where we are staying”. It should more accurately now read “a couple of blocks away from where we were staying.” I mostly wrote this post on Saturday, but never had a chance to published it, because we were hunting for the what turned out to be a non-existent photo of that Basque-style french foast. And then yesterday we left Seattle (as planned) to head off on the next leg of our Plan G road trip. We’re slowly making our way down to Santa Barbara, with stops along the way in Oregon, Northern California, and the San Francisco Bay area. Our Internet connection will be hit or miss until then, but stay tuned.
