Foodiddy

We spent last Saturday morning at Roxy Restaurant and Bar in Sacramento with a group of amazing people. People that initially came together because of an extreme passion and love for Subaru cars. Those people quickly became family… our Subaru community family… and several became some of our best friends.

Our friend Aaron had been talking about “brunch” at Roxy for months… describing the concept (the owners focus on using as many locally raised and naturally healthy food products as possible – including all natural beef from their own ranch) and talking about the cheddar biscuits & ancho sausage gravy on the menu… we’d been planning to go and then Josh and Deede announced that their going away breakfast would be there. Yes, I said…. GOING AWAY…. so incredibly hard to type that. It hasn’t really sunk in yet, but I’m sure it will by the end of this week… especially as they pull out of their driveway to start the next chapter of their lives.

My girl… my “go to” girl… my “fellow foodie”… my “bestie”… my “fitness inspiration” is moving to the east coast. I tried to convince her to stay on the BEST coast… but they have been planning this for a while.

Our usual Friday night dinners will now turn into Saturday night dinners in front of computers with Skype… too hard to coordinate with the 3 hour difference on a Friday night. Since the past few months have been filled with sadness, I think I’m just numb to many things… but I really am excited and happy for both of them, and I can’t wait to share Deede’s new blog with all of you. Right now she’s buried in last minute projects before the move, but she will be blogging once settled. I think she’s proved through her guest posts that her blog will be very successful and a fun read.

O.k… enough of that, I don’t want to start crying… changes are happening beyond my control and as some of you know… I’m kind of a control freak… so it’s been hard….

Let’s get back to the restaurant and focus on the delicious food!

A bag of housemade doughnut holes with three dipping sauces for $3.95 – Sign me up!

I tried doughnuts with all three sauces and the chocolate was my favorite. Deede and Ryan ended up pouring the extra caramel sauce into their coffees, brilliant!

I had a hard time deciding what to order…. Should I go big with french toast or go more savory with an egg dish? After a recommendation from our server, I went with savory.

Shaved Prosciutto, grilled asparagus, poached eggs, hollandaise sauce and potato chips… Yep – crispy, vibrant, colored potato chips… they definitely added a level of whimsy to the dish – also a great way to incorporate potatoes into any dish in a non-heavy way.

The plate came very hot (on purpose) – this crisped up the shaved slices of prosciutto.

Such a fun presentation and the poached eggs on a bed of grilled asparagus was much lighter than the bread options in some of the other dishes. The sauce took care of the “heavy” just fine, ha! ha!

That did not stop me from drooling over Josh’s French toast.

Or Ryan’s Lucky Dog Ranch beef Benedict with corn cakes and spicy hollandaise sauce.

A good time was had by all. Bitter sweet… saying goodbye is always hard, but everyone tried to focus on the excitement surrounding their move. I’m excited to have an awesome reason to fly to the other side of the country and to follow along in Deede’s journey – baking and food adventures and finding running/triathlon buddies in her new city. I will link to her blog once she’s got it ready to go.

Love you Josh and Deede, and wish you the best on your cross country adventure.

P.S. – I also wanted to thank all of you for your kind words, texts, facebook messages, emails and cards about Higgy. Your thoughts and personal stories have given me the comfort I needed.