Life in Dishes

This salmon croquette is a bit of nostalgia for me. It’s topped with a fresh hollandaise and resting on a bed of herb-filled scrambled eggs and goat cheese. I seldom make time for breakfast like this anymore. When I was a college student, I loved picking 11 o’clock classes. And it’s not because I like to sleep in. On the contrary, I consider myself more of a morning person than a night owl. In fact, I would wake up at 7 a.m. on those days and watch the Today Show on NBC, back when Katie Couric was still in the mix. I’d pick out my school clothes and by 9 a.m. I’d…

I woke up the other morning to the smell of bacon. Sadly, it wasn’t because someone was downstairs lovingly preparing me breakfast in bed. In fact, that’s never happened and I’m shaking my head about this realization. I gotta get a campaign going… Actually, the smell of smoked pork fat permeated the house because I cooked a whole heap of bacon the night before and it was still clinging to the air, the walls and nostrils throughout the house. The odor was so strong, my family probably dreamed of bacon all night. But no one seemed to mind, why would they? Bacon is one of life’s greatest pleasures, it’s a succulent treat.…