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My fantasy restaurant menu - breakfast and lunch served all day, dinner served after 5pm:
Breakfast / Brunch - all breakfasts served with seasonal fruit, and your choice of coffee, tea, or milk/soy milk.
Spinach, mushroom, and feta egg-white omelet with toasted Ezekiel bread
Canadian bacon and goat cheese egg-white omelet with toasted Ezekiel bread
Eggs Benedict
Huevos rancheros
Quiche Lorraine
Alison's Super Cinnamon Texas Toast with real maple syrup - powered sugar on request
Buckwheat Pancakes and fresh whole milk whipped butter with real maple syrup
Smoked salmon, capers, red onion, tomato and cream cheese on a freshly toasted onion, garlic or sesame bagel
Super Crunch Cereal - Mixture of Grape Nuts, Original Kashi GoLean, and California almonds, Crasins, fresh ground cinnamon & ginger, and fresh blueberries - choice of 2% milk or vanilla soy milk.
Lunch - all lunches served with seasonal fruit, and your choice of: Alison's Chunky Potato Salad, Baked Beans, or Tabouleh Salad
Alison's Sub Sandwich - 12" sourdough roll packed with hard salami, roast turkey, pastrami, yellow banana peppers, dill pickles, black olives, green leaf lettuce, sliced tomatoes, red onion, Colby/Jack Cheese, red bell peppers, alfalfa sprouts, mayo, mustard, extra virgin olive oil and crushed roast garlic.
Ortega Burger - ½ lb. Black Angus hamburger, Panela cheese, whole Ortega chili peppers, grilled onions with guacamole on toasted wheat bun
Gooey Louie Burger - 2 ½ lb. Black Angus patties smothered in grilled mushrooms, onions, and green peppers, topped with cheddar cheese, 2 pieces of bacon, lettuce, tomato, dill pickles, mustard, and horseradish mayo on a toasted Kaiser roll
Portobello Mushroom Sandwich - grilled marinated Portobello mushroom with Spanish goat cheese, and red wine sauce served on a toasted Cibatta roll, with savory mixed herbal greens
Foot long Polish Sausage with grilled onions and peppers on toasted sesame seed roll with spicy brown mustard
Chicken pita - freshly made pita stuffed with grilled seasoned chicken, diced tomatoes, cucumbers, red onions, kalamata olives, and feta cheese with red wine vinegar sauce
Alison's Spicy Tuna - albacore tuna mixed with Nam Prik Pao mayonnaise, cheddar cheese, green onions, and dill pickles, melted on dark rye bread
Comfort Food Combo - Grilled cheese on Texas Toast with Tomato Soup. Sliced Spam on grilled cheese upon request.
Appetizers
Wasabi Salmon Balls - steamed salmon, wasabi, and water chestnuts rolled in black sesame seeds, served with a soy & sesame seed oil green onion sauce
Sarma - rice and savory ground beef stuffed grape leaves served with tahini sauce
Baked feta stuffed grape tomatoes
Topig - vegetarian "meatballs" like falafel served with a variety of dipping sauces
Lemon & Leek Shrimp
Red wine marinated Portobello mushroom with Spanish goat cheese and apple slices on toasted pumpernickel rounds
Dinner - all dinners served with seasonal steamed vegetables, and your choice of: fresh garden salad, basmati rice pilaf, baby red garlic potatoes, or wheat berry & wild rice stuffing
Garlic & rosemary spit roasted Cornish game hen
Honey glazed stuffed pork chops
London broil - marinated for seven hours in the house specialty marinade of roasted garlic & various herbs and spices
Boereg - Armenian savory pastry filled with spinach, feta, and onions topped with tahini sauce
Baked stuffed eggplant - with pine nuts, tomatoes, red peppers, garlic, onions, and basil
Lamb kebabs - marinated lamb and assorted vegetables skewered and grilled
Phyllo wrapped artichoke stuffed chicken breast
Alison's Spaghetti Bolognese - hearty spaghetti served with thick Bolognese sauce made of ground Italian pork sausage, tomato paste, Cabernet Sauvignon and other secret family ingredients.
Lasagna LaPietro - vegetarian lasagna with sliced mushrooms, onions, red, yellow, & green peppers, olives, tomatoes, roasted garlic and zucchini in the LaPietro family's secret ingredient tomato sauce with five Italian cheeses: ricotta, parmesan, Romano, Asiago, and provolone.
Alison's Chicago Style Pizza - LaPietro family's secret ingredient tomato sauce, on Alison's own handmade pizza crust - your choice of toppings
Soups
Lentil
Potato & Leek
Minestrone
Tomato