For brunch, I require coffee, potatoes, and bacon. Everything else is negotiable.
She didn't even touch her pumpkin. It's a freak with no face.
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shrift - Apr 19, 2009 8:02:34 pm PDT #15938 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
DavidS - Apr 19, 2009 8:41:56 pm PDT #15939 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I don't really think of brunch as a buffet thing.
My strong associations with brunch are in NYC or SF. And they usually involve mimosas and cappucino, and either some kind of exotic french toast (cinnamon challah) or pancake (ginger say, with roasted pears), or Hollandaise sauce on a poached egg on an English muffin (with maybe lox, capers and onion, or bacon and Provencale tomatoes), or a fancy omelet (brie and asparagus, or crabmeat) or a fancy scramble (fresh spinach and feta).
Like that. An upscale, dawdling, fancy breakfast as social event with friends.
Lee - Apr 19, 2009 8:47:09 pm PDT #15940 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I don't really think of brunch as a buffet thing.
Except in Vegas, and then it totally is. Sometimes even with gospel music.
DavidS - Apr 19, 2009 9:06:59 pm PDT #15941 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Except in Vegas, and then it totally is. Sometimes even with gospel music.
I guess, but my best brunch in Vegas was a super fancy scrumptious sit down meal at Commander's Palace. Mmmm, Eggs Sardou and Bananas Foster Souffle.
P.M. Marc - Apr 19, 2009 9:30:56 pm PDT #15942 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Like that. An upscale, dawdling, fancy breakfast as social event with friends.
Nope. Does not compute. I mean, I've had those brunches (in SF and here in Seattle), but that's not what I think when I think Brunch.
Brunch is madhouse of coffee, pancakes, bacon, constant kitchen motion, and whatever else seems like a good idea at the time. (Brunch, in my head, is also not a going-out thing. It's a host-in-house thing.)
DavidS - Apr 19, 2009 10:12:42 pm PDT #15943 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
(Brunch, in my head, is also not a going-out thing. It's a host-in-house thing.)
Yeah, it's definitely a going-out thing for me. Though I've certainly had the in-house madhouse you described and enjoyed it.
When's the last time you hosted a brunch, Ple? That's not an pointed question, just wondering if it happens regularly since you've become a parent.
§ ita § - Apr 20, 2009 12:23:24 am PDT #15944 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
This is the penalty for sleeping all the way through last night, isn't it?
Juliebird - Apr 20, 2009 12:46:36 am PDT #15945 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Juliebird, is the brunch for friends or at work?
At work. Now I'm all nervous (and hungry!)
Calli - Apr 20, 2009 1:54:58 am PDT #15946 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
The brunch I hosted on Easter had quiche (some with sausage, some veg), ham, asparagus and avocado salad, cinnamon rolls, mimosas, coffee, and Easter candy. Also, some people brought various nummy bread items and cheese and crackers.
It seemed to work out pretty well.
Jessica - Apr 20, 2009 3:44:24 am PDT #15947 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The last time I hosted a brunch was New Year's Day 2009. I served baked eggs in little ham cups. They were adorable. (And there was a big basket of mini-bagels w/ cream cheese, lox, onions, capers, tomato for the anti-egg. And lots and lots of coffee and mimosas.)