Phileas Foggs Bar & Restaurant

Our lunch was located on the northern end of the Sabre Springs Plaza strip mall which also houses HOB Coffee....

CAB, fresh from her trip from England thought we could try this place out...

Chula Vista Lemon Festival 2013

This past Sunday we did a quick visit to the Chula Vista Lemon Festival.

(sign that was on the window of Sweet Sisters Bakery)

We hadn't gone in a few years and were curious about the food offerings...

Soup for you!

The weather's been wacky lately...in the 70's one day, the next day, a storm. Winter in San Diego isn't really typical. Snow isn't that common here in Chula Vista. It hardly gets cold, but when does (and by cold, I mean anything below 65F, ha ha), it's time for soup...

Fortunately, our household isn't like this:

"Hoo wah!"

This show was so classic, but enough about Seinfeld...on with the soup!

"Make a cup of tea and put a record on..."

Earlier this week, I took out TC and friend (KD's daughter) for her belated birthday where we went for a girl's day out for tea at Shakespeare's Corner Shoppe...

I don't know about you, but when I hear the word tea, I think of these lyrics from The Cure's "Love Cats":

"We should have each other to tea, huh...
We should have each other with cream..."

OMG, you can tell that Robert Smith is totally lip syncing and in such a blase manner as well! Can you believe this performance is nearly 30 years old? Yikes! He must be in his early 50's now.

Anyhow, it had been more than a year since we were last here for tea...

Coronation Chicken

One recipe that I forgot to post earlier was one that was inspired by Queen Elizabeth II's coronation in 1953...

(cue the music, "Hail Brittania")

I first had my first taste of Coronation Chicken at Shakespeare's Corner Tea Shoppe during tea with my daughter and the neighbor girls...

Tea Party preview food - Sausage Rolls

Here's another item I've never made before, English Sausage Rolls.

The recipes I saw online looked easy enough. Of course, I chose the easiest one, this one was from AllRecipes.Com,
"Mark's English Sausage Rolls"

Ingredients:
1 lb of pork sausage (I got mine from Fresh and Easy but forgot the brand. All I know is that it was NOT Jimmy Dean's, but I wanted it but it wasn't there)
Puff Pastry Sheets (I bought a pack of 10 squares from Vine Ripe Market; the recipe calls for "12" squares)
1/4 cup dijon mustard (I used Colman's instead, which isn't Dijon)
1 beaten egg

Directions:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F
Divide the sausage into ten logs
Brush the squares with the mustard
Roll up the squares with the meat log (ha ha)
Seal with beaten egg
Place on ungreased baking sheet
Bake for 20 minutes or until puffed and golden brown (I did mine a few minutes longer to make sure the pork was cooked within)

Below was half of the rolls. In retrospect, I should have cut them in half because one piece was already pretty substantial. These also came out pretty good for a first try...

The one in the front was cut open when I first checked to see if one was done. I had to put it back int he oven for a few extra minutes to make sure the pork was cooked. For the tea, this was to be served with Branston pickle (which will be featured in a few posts from now).

I love using premade puff pastry sheets. It makes baking strudels, meat pies, or sausage rolls so much easier!

The proof is in the pudding...

So, did you eat your meat?

Remember, you can't have any PUDDING if you don't eat your meat!