8/30/2007

Fat Cats










The first time we went to Avila Beach our daughter Robin was with us. In the morning she was up and out to scout the area while Jim and I were still sleeping. She had her first morning coffee at Fat Cats. Since her discovery it has been a regular stop for us

Fat Cats , a small retaurant at the entrance to Harford Pier, Avila Beach, CA., is a great place to have breakfast. You can smell the sea, and hear the birds swooping over the pier hoping to snag a snack.

Scrambled eggs, bacon, biscuits, coffee - and for Jim, hash browned potatoes. Like southerners relish grits; Californians savor their hash browns. Sadly, I have never mastered cooking them.

But, after years of practice, I can make vegetable soup that rivals the soup Jim's mother made. Even he says so. A trade-off.