Donnie Darko made me breakfast!
Feeling fancy on a Friday morning off, I made some strange food choices. Here's oven roasted red skin potatoes, shallots, apples and wedges of everything bagel topped with melted havarti.
This was an avocado and kiwi salad with a dressing made from Lindt's coconut white chocolate tempered in bacon fat and mixed with black raspberry jam with crumbles of said bacon in the salad. I knew when I was making this that I'd regret not having a lemon to brighten the avocado. Still highly edible for how experimental it was. Next time... using lemon... going to be awesome.
Two egg omelet dusted with paprika. I'm working on that perfect roll of controlled chemical change that haunts tested chefs like the high school girl friend you thought you were going to marry that still sends you Christmas cards featuring her beautiful children. I, too, am still haunted by the elusive perfect omelet. It is, however, the journey and not the goal and this step along the way was delightfully delicate but still a touch too wet inside and seconds too dry on the outside.
And this was bacon. Kinda looks like a rabbit head. Wish I would have planned that...
Then, much later, dinner, even, was a platano con carnitas from one of my neighborhood favorites. Plantains and spiced meat wrapped in a hearty pastry and deep fried. I love living in Spanish Harlem.
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