When we shared the experience of our lunch at Tillikum Place Café, those of you who know me from our other blog might have wondered: what did you eat, Shauna?
That Dutch baby and slice of quiche, while they looked delicious, didn’t interest me. The puff of dough and flaky crust would have put me down for the count for days.
It’s not, however, like I suffered through that lunch with a glass of water and a mopey expression on my face. No. I ate well.
I had the fry up.
Tillikum Place offers an elegant version of the great greasy British breakfast. In this case, it’s homemade sausage, two pieces of bacon, perfectly fried eggs, and the best baked beans I have ever eaten. And it wasn’t at all greasy.
(Normally, this comes with a great hunk of fried bread, as well, but I skipped that.)
The baked beans were tender, slightly sweet, fall-apart-on-the-teeth good. And they had more heft than a typical dish of baked beans does. These are made with a ham hock, bacon, and pork shoulder. They were humble and comforting, surprisingly touching. My spoon moved through them fast.
Of course, Danny and I wanted to make them as soon as we arrived home.
Luckily, we all can. As our friend Lorna pointed out on her blog, Sumi Hahn of Eat Play Love posted the recipe for these beans, directly from Tillikum Place Café’s chef, Ba Culbert.
Go to this link at your peril. You’re going to want to start making beans as soon as you are done reading this.
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I stopped in there on a Whim about a month ago and ordered the stuffed squid appetizer (stuffed with their homemade sausage). All I could say was yum, yum, yum.
I’ll definitely be back.
The link to Sumi’s site doesn’t work.
Thanks for all the yummy posts.