Easter Remains

After kicking them around the lawn all Easter Sunday, I've found that there's nothing better to do with those left over colored eggs than to chop them up and add a little of this or a little of that for a quick afternoon meal. I make food for one, so an open-faced avocado egg salad sandwich is a quick and easy way to use up those pretty eggs.



Recipe:
2 Hard Boiled eggs, diced up
1 tbsp yellow mustard
2 tbsp olive oil mayo
dash pepper
dash salt
dash dill
dash garlic salt
1/4 Large Avocado, sliced

Served on toasted Multi-Grain bread from Trader Joes. This bread is my favorite because it's naturally sweet, but high in fiber and flavor. Adding just a tab of butter to the toasted naked bread is even delicious.

Keep on the Sunny Side or Have a Good Day?

Hollandaise sauce smothered poached eggs with hearty ham and great potatoes on the side: welcome to the world of Minneapolis Eggs Benedict! Oh the possibilities! This weeks, I wanted to compare a few places that get good ratings from critics, but can be discussed by foodies with equal accuracy. That being said, if you like breakfast, this is the post for you. The great contenders are Sunny Side Up in Uptown, and Good Day Café in Golden Valley.

I ventured over to Sunny Side up a few Saturdays ago with my college peer Mike. He is a brilliant journalist with a particular blog that focuses on Autism in the media. We discussed various topics, and he didn't mind that I was taking photos of my food, since we both do journalism pretty hardcore.

Sunny Side Up

Two words: French Toast. Sunny Side Up has a Cowboy French toast that takes the original bread and egg batter and adds a brown sugar cornflake crust for added crunchiness. If you're there, add this to the side. You will not be disappointed, unless you just had a filling. This time I took a break from my usual favorites, including the biscuits and gravy, which are the best in the Twin Cities hands down, and I ordered up some poached eggs all dressed up.



These are the three things I liked:

1. The Canadian bacon was sweet, which played off the saltiness of the hollandaise sauce very nicely.
2. The thickness of the hollandaise was exactly right. You never want runny eggs and runny hollandaise, it's just wrong.
3. The eggs were poached perfectly. Yolks were just firm, not extremely runny or too hard.

What didn't work?

I would've liked a tad more hollandaise on my potatoes. But overall, exactly what I wanted to eat.

Good Day Café

This is a new place for me. I met my friend Jamie at the restaurant. It seemed that a running colony had heard this was the place to be. I really enjoyed seeing all the athletic garb. It reminded me of the race I'm running next Saturday. 5K, here I come!



Three things I liked:

1. GDC potatoes are EXCELLENTLY seasoned. They can stand alone. This is one of the first time I passed on ketchup for my heap of starchy goodness.
2. The hollandaise sauce was sweet and savory. It had the same thickness as that of Sunny Side Up's.
3. The ham wasn't too much to chew on. It was the right thickness and very flavorful.

What didn't work? The eggs were a bit too runny. It turned out a soppy plate of yellow sauces.

Who wins? Well I feel like I won. For about $12 a meal, I got two Saturdays of hearty breakfasts. I would recommend both places, but Sunny Side Up gets the thumbs up.