Archive for February, 2007

The classic BLT recipe is simple: white bread, mayo, tomatoes, bacon, and iceberg lettuce. Some toast the bread and others salt the tomatoes. I’m not so passionate about those details as much as I am about the lettuce and mayo. Iceberg provides the perfect greenery to the sandwich and the mayo, well, it actually has to be mayo. Sandwich spreads and dressings just don’t cut it.

The PLT came about on a day when a BLT craving hit and there was no bacon in the house. Crispy fried pancetta was a nice substitute – a different flavor, not a BLT, but still tasty. Since I was already bastardizing the recipe, I went ahead and built a house-favorite mayo to round out the sandwich. Read the rest of this entry »

We’re remodeling. We’re still working out some kinks, mostly with Internet Explorer 7 (darn you, Microsoft), but most everything should be working now!

Atmosphere – A
Service – A+
Entertainment – A++ (bonus points for the jazz band serenading us twice)
Food – A+
Bananas Foster – C

Yes, you’re seeing that correctly. I gave the inventors of Bananas Foster a C. But before that…

Brennan’s of Houston just might make the best Eggs Benedict in the world. I don’t have any real credibility in that statement, though – I’ve only had Eggs Benedict a few times and all within the last 6 months. My husband lived on it growing up so I’ll claim “Expertise by Marriage.” Read the rest of this entry »