Culinary Adventures with Camilla

Our good friend Priya took all four of the boys - her two and our two - up to the Maker Faire today. She deserves a medal, by the way! But Jake and I took full advantage of our kid-free day. We started off at one of our favorite coffee-morning eats spots: Crema . We drank coffee (me, an espresso - he, a latte); we noshed on muffins, breakfast burritos, and an apple crostata with cheddar cheese crust... You can tell that we didn't like it at all ! [wink, wink] One the main requirements for me to become a regular at eating establishments: they have to make it better than I do. And Crema definitely does that. I have to figure out how the crumble on their muffins is so crisp, but the muffin part is still moist! Do you have a favorite breakfast stop? Why is it your favorite!??

Years ago a little friend - Jetty - asked me if I knew why McDonald's called them 'Happy Meals.' I told him that I didn't know. He said, "Happy Meals are called 'happy' because they make you happy." Okay. Well, I'm going to apply that logic to Happy Hour at Crema - it's called 'happy' because it makes me happy. Really happy. When Nonna and I were looking at the calendar and figuring out a Mothers' Day plan, I suggested Crema because it was in the vicinity of the Nonni's Saturday evening dance plans and, honestly, because it'd been too long since I've enjoyed Team Crema's food. And I was clearly too busy stuffing my face to take pictures of our feast. But we devoured their artisan cheese selection, charcuterie slate, papas bravas, Monterey Bay squid, barbeque beef brisket sliders, and marinated olives... We washed it down with flutes of Spanish cava, beer, and red wine... And that was...