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Ooooo—A New Hometown Cafe!

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Cafe - Baked Goods

Baked goods at their finest.

Oh, I just LOVE when new little cafes pop up around town.  I had the fortunate pleasure of being invited to a “Grand Opening” of this new cafe in town.  Meaning FREE FOOD for the invitees.  O-kaaaay!  Who am I to turn down a free meal?

I just happen to know the manager who will be running this little shindig called Corner Bakery Cafe.  The place is marvelous and I could not possibly speak enough about the baked goods that I saw through the glass case as my eyes got bigger and bigger.

Egg Scrambler with potatoes, toast, and muffin.
French Toast with bacon and fruit.

Egg Scrambler made with eggs, applewood smoked bacon, tomatoes, green onions, cheddar cheese, and avocado; served with potatoes, toast, and a cinnamon muffin.

French Toast made with cinnamon-swirled brioche bread baked in vanilla custard and a side of maple syrup; served with applewood smoked bacon, and fruit.

I was offered the chance to come to either breakfast, lunch, or dinner and I chose to go early morning to breakfast.  My, my, my—how I just LOVED my egg scramble.  That sucker was amazingly good.  I’m definitely going back for another helping of that at some point.

Why do all of these hometown cafes have to be so good?  I mean, now we’re talking this makes the THIRD different cafe I will now be shuffling back and forth to.  All three of them literally make a big triangle in my city—or at least a funny looking shaped triangle, but a triangle nonetheless.

They are spaced country miles apart from each other—which doesn’t help ME any!  Who’s bright idea was this?  I don’t understand why they can’t all be right next door to each other to make MY life easier.

So, if you have nothing else to do today, search high and low for new cafes/hometown diners opening up in your part of town and give them a try.  You just may discover some new deliciousness in your part of the world.

Take-Away Life Lesson:  Running around between three different cafes in town spaced miles and miles apart from each other is a lot of work—but someone’s got to do it so it might as well be you.

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McBreakfast Sandwich

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Egg McMuffin

Egg McMuffin with egg, ham, and cheese on an English muffin.

Well, it’s been ages and eons since I’ve really had anything from McDonald’s.  But years ago I used to be a regular daily patron.  Oh, yeah.  That Double Cheeseburger Meal was a daily requirement for the likes of me—and supersize me please with those pimped out fries.

And if I ever made it for breakfast by 10:30am, it was an Egg McMuffin every single time.  Mmm, mmm, mmm.  And didn’t you just love those $1 muffin day sales?  HONK, HONK—HERE I AM (at the window again)!!!  I just love a good sale.

But, like I said, it’s been years since I’ve frequented the establishment.  Once you start either a.) eating at better establishments or b.) home-cooking your own meals on a regular basis, you start to discover a very different kind of freshness and taste to your food.

And, well then, I mean……………….there’s just no turning back.  Your taste buds just can’t handle going back in reverse.

As I was passing by McD’s, I made the dreaded mistake of making a quick stop at the drive-thru to order an old favorite.  Ah, the memories I thought it’d bring back.  But no such luck.  There were no good memories after that first bite.

McDonald’s just doesn’t have the same baller status it used to have with me back in the day.  That egg mcmuffin tasted NOTHING like I remembered it!

There was nothing fresh about it.  It tasted blah and rubbery like it had been sitting around forever.  And look at the pathetic processed cheese hanging out of it.  Come on now.

So is it just ME?  Has McDonald’s, in fact, always tasted this way and my taste buds just didn’t know anything different back then and I mistakenly thought that this was ‘the bomb’ cooking at one time?  But once exposed to fine dining and freshly home-cooked meals for years afterwards, my taste buds knew there was no turning back?  Or has McD’s gone downhill over the years?

Who knew what you once loved so much  SO long ago could be so YUCK now if you haven’t had it in years?  I’m telling you people—don’t make your taste buds cry like that.  Just save yourself now.

I knew I should have just made my own egg muffin at home.  I mean, how hard is it to slap a freshly cooked egg, piece of ham, and piece of gourmet cheddar cheese onto an English muffin and eat it fresh off the grill without letting it sit there for 8 hours first???!!!

So, if you have nothing else to do today, get an egg ring mold and make your very own freshly made egg muffin breakfast sandwich with a variety of fresh gourmet cheeses and eat it straight away after cooking.

Take-Away Life Lesson:  Avoid fast-food establishments if your taste buds have been exposed to freshly home-cooked meals for several consecutive years (not to be confused with concurrent years).  Otherwise don’t expect it to taste the same as it did back when all your taste buds ever knew existed was fast-food.