The Breakfast Food Journey!

I'm not a huge breakfast food fan!  Just ask my mom if you don't believe me. However, I was raised in a household where breakfast was ALWAYS served. To me breakfast is quick and to the point. So I rarely crave some of the more, shall I say, "elite" breakfast foods. Not that I don't like a pancake breakfast or a good waffle but I have no time for those things on most days. Besides those aren't healthy enough for everyday. Pancake breakfasts we frequently have on Sundays. Waffles however, are never served in this household. Why you ask? We don't have a waffle maker. If it wasn't for his wife's insistence to eat at least SOMETHING for breakfast Brad would float right on to lunch at least 5 maybe 6 days a week!

There are mornings, those special days where we have the time to go indulge in a morning outing to get breakfast. This past Friday was one of those mornings!  We actually got up and around and out the door while it was still "breakfast time".  Trust me no easy feat for us around here! Especially when you have 3 pets, 2 of which need a long morning walk and you are of course married to Brad. He is not known for getting up and around too early on a non-work morning. I love you honey!

So off we went with a destination in mind. My fave breakfast place to go to....drum roll please....Mimi's Café! Where to start? Great blueberry muffins. Yummy French toast and crepes. Oh and of course eggs benedict. See if I'm going to indulge in breakfast foods at a restaurant it's a fancy version of French toast, a waffle, eggs benedict, or possibly crepes that I'm going for.

As we approach Mimi's I quickly notice Mimi's is no more! All boarded up. We were stunned. We then went to a nearby pancake house that we've been wanting to try. People were standing outside the door of the pancake house. It was cold out and we didn't feel like waiting outside for too long. So in the car we jumped this time heading for Cracker Barrel.  Good ol' Cracker Barrel, certainly Brad's fave breakfast spot. Cracker Barrel is more appealing to me in recent months than it has been. I've come around! It's just a slightly different style of food. Took me awhile to embrace what they seem to do best at Cracker Barrel. I told Brad as we headed to Cracker Barrel that it too would be slammed. And sure enough as we pulled into the parking lot there were no parking spaces and people were standing around all over. Brad suddenly changed his mind. I'll be honest after the disappointment of Mimi's and then the ridiculously busy pancake house I had moved on to lunch. Visions of lunch food were dancing in my head. Cracker Barrel was a good option partly because Brad was still in breakfast mode and I could easily get lunch.  After all this driving around it was practically lunch time anyway. Now that Brad had experienced the disappointment of an overly busy Cracker Barrel, he was ready to move onto lunch. In the end we went back to the area of town near the neighborhood pancake house to dine at Red Robin. Certainly one of my fave spots for lunch or dinner for that matter.

After all that driving our taste buds never got breakfast food.  We both laughed though when we opened up the Red Robin menu which currently features a French style burger with an over-easy egg on top. We could combine breakfast and lunch by getting the burger with the over-easy egg! We didn't though! Not our style! Eggs and burgers I just can't put into one meal....sorry folks!