Hangover cure

Bacon bloody mary with a beer sidecar and truffle fries.

The bloody is made (at the request of yours truly) with half habenero and half bacon-infused vodka and served with candied bacon.

Sandwich of the day

Today's sandwich if the day (designed by yours truly) was a vegetarian grilled portabella and zucchini on focaccia bread.

I toasted the bread and then spread boursin with the balsamic marinade from the cleaned portabella caps on both sides; sliced a grilled portabella in half; and put slices of grilled zucchini in between the layers, stacking the sandwich high.

Simple. Easy. Delicious.

Epic french toast

So I made some ridiculously awesome french toast at the restaurant yesterday.

Candied bacon and rasberry cream cheese stuffed french toast. Yeah that's right.

Candied bacon- set your oven to 350ish, tray up some bacon, cook for five minutes.
While the bacon is cooking microwave some brown sugar and butter until melty--usually around 30-45 seconds.
Remove bacon, pour sugar mixture on to and put back in the oven for 7-10 minutes... Or until done.
let cool, but not too much or the sugar will cement to the parchment or tray.

Whip some softened cream cheese with rasberry preserves until delicious.

Cut the crusts off some bread, spread some cream cheese in the middle with a piece of your bacon and press another piece of bread on top. Dip in your favorite french toast batter (eggs, milk, vanilla, cinnamon, sugar works great.) Squeeze your improvised dumpling to get rid of excess batter and fry until GBD.

Author's note: I've always wanted to try frying these in the bacon fat, if someone does let me know how it turns out!

Breakfast

Breakfast at Le Delices De France. And yes, that is my morning reading material.

Mediterranean Neapolitan

One of my items at the restaurant. Pesto, fried wonton, watercress, cucumber, tomato, repeat layers and top with balsamic reduction.

French onion soup, vegan

Slice onions
Salt GENEROUSLY
Leave overnight
Lift out of salty onion juice, reserving liquids
Onions into WARM not hot pan
caramelize slowly, deglazing with onion juice as liquid is needed.

Add wine to taste and mushroom vegetable stock.

Vegan and delicious!