Foodies

 

We haven't blogged about our culinary adventures lately so here are a couple of our more recent ones. While in the Bryan area we went over to Navasota and the Martha's Bloomers nursery and café.

 

Below is their website photo of the entrance to the place with the cat theme.

 



After you go through their wonderful nursery and garden themed gift shop you get to the café at the rear of the place.

You get seated at the white linen set table and are immediately served a hot spiced tea and scones ... note the pyramid shaped tea bag package. You place the tea bag in the pot and a single green leaf sticks out the hole in the top for dunking.

In front of me below is their Santa Monica sliced maple turkey sandwich with bacon, provolone, on a toasted wheat berry bread with lettuce tomatoes avocado and ranch. Also their tomato bisque soup was really great.

Jo-Anne had their special of the day which was a chicken pasta with feta all done in a white wine sauce. Great tea and great food for a Sunday morning brunch.
 

A couple of hundred miles to the north is the really neat little town of McKinney. On the historic town square is a neat place called Harvest we went to last week. This place is cool.

These two pictures, above and below, are from their website. We were seated at the tables for two at the left of the below picture. The chairs are upholstered wing backs just as you would have at your dining table at home.

With tea again, this time with a different method for dunking the bag came some really eclectic dishes. I guess mine was a more normal chicken soup but laced with all kinds of kale and black beans and other veggies.

To complement my soup I also had half of an egg salad sandwich on some wonderful multigrain bread that seemed right out of the oven.

Across the table and a bit hard to see is the star of the meal. Jo-Anne had their Farm Egg and Squash Griddle cake. Actually this was a single sweet potato pancake with a butter mushroom sauce, then asparagus, and an over easy egg on the top ... pure comfort in the mouth!

Both of these restaurants source all their food locally and organically if possible and return some of their profits to charitable causes involving how we might eat better.