The taste of YUMMY: Flour

A few months back I was killing free time by browsing the cookbook section at Barnes and Noble (not because I do any real cooking or baking, but because I like looking at the pretty pictures of food), and came across a book called Flour - written by Joanne Chang: founder of Flour Bakery as well as the popular Boston Asian-fusion restaurant Meyers and Chang (co-founded with her husband who makes up the "Meyers" portion of "Meyers and Chang").

Needless to say, after staring at the pictures of delicious pastries, cookies, cakes, and tarts, I HAD to visit the bakery. There are now three locations - one downtown, one in Cambridge, and one in the South End. I stopped by the downtown location on the way to NYC shortly after discovering it's existence, but given the time crunch I only got a croissant to-go.

Today however, there was time for some of the girls and I to stop by the Cambridge location for casual brunch, so that we could sample more of what they have to offer.

Christina opted for the smoked salmon and arugula sandwich:

Ameeka ordered the grilled Portobello melt with fresh mozzarella, roasted tomatoes, and basil pesto:

I was still feeling a bit whoosy from too many Chambord-and-pineapples and Lemon-drops from last night, so rather than getting both a savory AND sweet dish (which I was sorely tempted but too nauseous to do), I limited myself to just a serving of the blueberry bread pudding instead. Even though I thought I was being moderate in my selection, I was still unable to finish the whole thing since bread pudding is a heavy dish regardless

Ammara chose the apple cinnamon french toast:

Mautin ordered the grilled chicken sandwich (not pictured) and vanilla cream doughnut :

While Ammara's french toast was a bit disappointing and my bread pudding was a bit tooo dense, everything else was good - especially the doughnut which gave Mautin a food-gasm

During brunch Christina pointed out that I rarely include photographs of people in my blog. As she stated: "You say that you're eating with other people in all of your posts, but there's never any proof. How do we know that you're not just pigging out alone??"