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A Can't-Eat-Lunch-Breakfast:
Any breakfast which someone else prepares for you has a lot going for
it, and a Carwarden breakfast is indeed well worth getting up for, even
if it is served from 7 to 8:30 am. Really good coffee (or tea) will be
ready, and a choice of fruit juices, followed by fresh fruit - local
when in season - crowned with a smoothness of yogurt. The cereal is
healthy homemade granola, commonly known as Carwarden Birdseed
(guaranteed to make you either sing or fly), or hot oatmeal if you
prefer.
The hot dish may be cinnamon raisin French toast, Belgian
waffles or pancakes, served with maple syrup boiled down on the
Carwarden kitchen woodstove, or with a fruit sauce - often blueberry,
sometimes raspberry-rhubarb, and accompanied by savory sausage, locally
made and crisply cooked. Fresh free-range eggs appear as Eggs Benedict,
or in various combinations with cubed ham or chopped bacon, cheeses,
potato, green onion and other fresh veggies in Farmer's Breakfast,
frittatas or Impossible Pie.
In season, there is always real
applesauce, made fresh from Carwarden apples; field ripened tomatoes,
rich in taste and colour are donated (or liberated) from a neighbour's
garden. And in defiance of the late Dr. Atkins, there are always carbs
- often muffins, or buttermilk biscuits hot from the oven; sometimes
freshly baked whole wheat rolls; frequently, fragrant cinnamon buns,the
ultimate breakfast comfort food.
The jams - strawberry, peach,
raspberry, pear - are made in the Carwarden kitchen, and there's
usually a jar of Mr. Robertson's superior ginger marmalade handy on the
pantry shelf. All this is served in a formal but friendly dining room,
warmed by sunshine glowing through stained glass windows, and on chilly
mornings,a crackling fire in the fireplace.
The long table is a family
antique, large enough to seat everyone, and is set with the wedding
china, the family silver, and cloth napery. Snooze, you lose! With
advance notice, we do our best to accommodate dietary restrictions.If
you're with us for multiple nights,the hot dish will change daily.
© 2010
Carwarden Nova Scotia Bed & Breakfast - Annapolis Valley on the Bay
of Fundy conveniently located near the towns of Wolfville &
Kentville
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