You could eat healthy or go to town on French toast, cakes and ice cream.
The idea of adding spoonsful of seeds to nearly everything -- salads, smoothies, French toast, cakes, even sandwiches (although you have to mush them into the mustard to keep them from falling out) first came to me recently at Food Fete, where I met the folks from hemp-seed company Manitoba Harvest and from One Degree Organic Foods.
"A Champagne toast, maybe cake.
Highlights include deviled eggs; smoked salmon on a sesame bagel; seasonal burrata salad; foie gras French toast; crab cake benedict and pan-roasted lamb loin.
During our impromptu toast and cake cutting/face smashing, complete with two-foot tall "Bride" and "Groom" glasses gifted by a friend, I heard someone whisper to the person next to her, "Did they actually get married or not?
RECOMMENDED DISHES Steamed littlenecks, soft-shell crab, Buffalo wings, spinach-artichoke dip, peppered tuna, salmon, Tilapia (special), toasted almond cake.
For diners bent on having dessert, there is toasted almond cake, with a flavor reminiscent of the Good Humor bar.
Sour-cherry toasted almond cake, a bouncy Americanized financier, is perfectly crunchy on the edges and chewy inside, with a tart pool of red wine and sour cherry juice that slowly soaks into the cake.
It would be unfair if either of these upstaged the sour cherry toasted almond cake, a kind of financier soaked in red wine and sour cherry juice and served with a bulblike scoop of morello sorbet.
To toast the cakes, use the flame of a kitchen butane torch or place under the broiler 3 inches from the heat source until the icing peaks are golden brown, about 1 minute.
