opening day

welcome to the culinary blog of our life; the beach's gustatory adventures whether here at home, home cooked with love or out on the town (or city...) with pinache. anyway so today was notable for a late breakfast in silver spring, md at a place called eggspectations (the website is http://www.eggspectations.com/html/home.html ) pretty good place that we've frequented over the past year or so. christina, my friend from USF was here doing a hospital rotation in the city so we thought we'd take her out for some tasty nibbles. she and i split the bagle eggspectation which is mostly just a egg and cheese bagle sandwich with potatoes and onions on the side and then we also split a yummy plate to texas style french toast with cinamon and chocolate; ah perfection. overall a satasfying meal with fairly decent coffee to match. and then tom surprised me by ordering up a huge piece of carrot cake to round out the meal. and what a let down. don't get me wrong; i still ate it, but it was no where near the quality and flavor of publix. the creamcheese frosting was skimpy and tasteless and had cocanut all over the outside which was not good. the cakey bit was okay but not as scrumptous as i was expecting. so i've still yet to find a carrot cake that can stand up to the publix challenge so i'll have to keep looking. and that's the food story so far today. we'll see what unfolds later...