Seriously, this summer has been the best weather wise – I think we’ve turned on our central air only twice this whole summer! Although this weekend is supposed to be in the mid-90’s, so I am going to enjoy these next couple days.
I had to go with spicy oats again, and this time I REALLY added a lot of hot sauce – so spicy good! So while it looks pretty with the fried egg on top and bacon, after I took that picture I just chopped the egg and bacon into the oats – every bite has a bit of egg, oats and bacon! And I added 1/2 ounce of cheddar cheese to the oats too – yum!
Have you guys been watching Top Chef – Masters? I just love the respect these chefs have for each other. And it reminds me that I need to go to Frontera Grill downtown or Topolobampo.
That’s about the only thing I miss about working downtown is the restaurants. I was lucky when I was a young single mother with no money, that when my birthday or work anniversary came around, my boss said I could pick any restaurant!
I ate lunches at:
- Ruth’s Chris
- Italian Village (La Cantina only)
- Wolfgang Puck (great wood fire pizza!)
- Brasserie Jo
- Harry Caray (best pork chops!)
- Bistro 110
- Berghoff (the sauerbraten was amazing!)
- Scoozi
But my favorite restaurant was Topolobampo – I don’t remember what I even got, but if I could have licked the plate, I would have! But what I remember was that the server handed us a post card that had the address of the restaurant, but on the front was a picture of a habanero pepper.
This is probably the mid 90’s, and I had just heard about habanero peppers. I asked “where can you buy these, I can’t seem to find them anywhere!” He said that they got theirs from a wholesaler. We were just about to leave when the server stopped me and handed me a bag – I cleaned my plate so I knew there couldn’t be a doggie bag! He told me to open it, and inside was about a dozen habanero peppers!
I was so happy – and quickly learned when I got home that night how incredibly hot habanero peppers are! And while I can find them in my local grocery store now, but I still lean towards my jalapenos – just enough heat for me!
Morning break is over – come back for lunch: Chicken and Spinach Quesadilla with Cincinnati Chili!
I ate at Friday’s and a very exotic place called Bennigans. My wife made me go to Ruth’s Chris for dinner once.
Anybody remember Carlos Murphy’s? I was young and enjoyed quite a few inverted Margaritas there. Why we found having shots poured down ones throat fun, I don’t know. The 80’s were a weird decade.
Just the right color orange – you definitely have the right amount of spice 🙂
What a sweet waitier! 🙂
I’ve been watching Top Chef Masters, but we’re behind the past two episodes I think. They’re still DVRed from when I was out of town b/c J and I like to watch them together. I need to catch up!!!
Wow does that breakfast sound good and filling. Love the idea of eggs and bacon in the oats!
Now I’ve got to try habanero peppers.
I love Top Chef Masters. It’s nice to have a show about cooking that isn’t so full of back-stabbing and bickering and forced romances, even. They’re all so nice and friendly with each other and it shows a level of comeraderie that I think you can only achieve once you truly are at a master level.
That being said, I still can’t wait for the catty next season of Top Chef in Las Vegas, yay! And I saw Melissa won Next Food Network Star! I saw the commercial for her new show last night, it’s gonna be about making family dinners for 10 bucks or less. LOVE IT!
When I was an RA in college, I remember walking into a guys’ apartment in my building…all 5 roommates were sitting around the living room with a jar of habanero peppers and gallon of milk…each. I asked what was going on (all were red-faced and sweating, and 2 guys were actually crying); they explained that none of them had finished their weekly cleaning chores, and eating peppers was their punishment.