Jane ~ on Larkin

https://www.itsjane.com/location/jane-on-larkin/


Place: Jane ~ on Larkin

Location: 925 Larkin Street 
(on the corner of Cedar Street, which is really just a 
two block long alley in the 'loin)

Hours: open daily from 7:00am

Meal: Breakfast Frisee Salad ~ frisée, arugula, chive, lardons[1], radish, rainbow carrot, soft boiled egg, shallot vinaigrette, toasted baguette; and, to drink, a mighty fine cuppa (done in the single-cuppa pour-over way) Campos® Coffee Kenya Thirikwa Gakuyuini AA (try saying that ten times fast... or slow, even)

https://us.camposcoffee.com/product/thirikwa-gakuyuini-aa/

(There is no EweToobular juxtaselection with this song/video; I just woke up this morning with the song talking in my head. I have no idea how little Davey Burns and the rest of the Speaking Faces feel about lardons or Kenyan Coffee, though.)


I have been meaning to get back to Jane (see last 'blog-entry from Sunday, April 14th, 2019) for a while now and finally made it back to their "on Larkin" Street location this morning.

There are still a few more good breakfastary ideas (even for st*pid vegetarian-types with reading-comprehension problems):

(the simply-enough named) Egg Sandwich ~ on your choice of housebaked sourdough, multigrain bread or baguette with homemade tomato chutney and Cheddar cheese (where I would have to go with the "Add Avocado" option; ha! "tomato chutney" and "Cheddar cheese"... "What are two things you will never see or hear at Ronnie Mac's Rainbow Room? for $200, Alex." );

Avocado Mash ~ avocado, cracked black pepper, soft boiled egg, pickled shallot and jalapeño on house sourdough (basically your ubiquitous "Avocado Toast"); 

Dragonfruit Smoothie Bowl ~ dragonfruit, pineapple, banana, ginger, coconut water, blueberries, raspberries, hemp seeds, flax seeds, cocoa nibs, goji, mulberries (that oughtta be enough d*mn berries[2] to hold over both Captain Parmenter and Maria Halle);

and

Raw Sprouted Black Rice Porridge ~ almond and coconut milk, chia seeds, coconut crunch, goji berries, fresh kiwi (served warm upon request).

This was basically a big bowl o' rabbit-food... with two poached eggs... and a whole lotta dead, decaying porky-butt bits... (D'oh! See, kids, this is where it pays to read the entire d*mn menu ingredients. And by "... a whole lotta... ", I mean, there was probably enough dead, decaying porky-butt bits laced into it to sate even Rudy Smith's bacon-appetite... possibly... ). At first, I looked at the dead, decaying porky-butt bits and thought "those are some pretty strange-looking rainbow carrots... " (of which, I was happy to see at least three different colours of carrots: your basic orange, some purple-looking dealies, and some golden ones). It took me a good five minutes to pick out as many of the offending offal as possible (thankfully, they were pretty large dead, decaying porky-butt bits), then I had to make sure to pick around any that I may have missed... Sheesh!

(another not so) Strange Coffee Interlude

Jane's standard drip-Coffee, Bread & Butter, is a medium-dark roast blend that they produce locally in San Francisco; I have had it several times before and wanted to try something different. The Coffee that I had this morning from Campos® Coffee as a pour-over is probably a visiting-roastery kinda-thing. I do not think that I have ever had this particular brand before, but I really enjoyed today's cuppa. While Kenyan Coffee ain't exactly Ethiopian (I noticed in their online menu that they do offer an Ethiopian, too), it is similar in flavour.

For condimentary supplementation, Jane ~ 
on Larkin has Tabasco® Brand Pepper Sauce 
(Original Red Sauce), Tapatío® Salsa Picante 
Hot Sauce, Cholula® Hot Sauce (Green Pepper), and Huy Fong Foods Inc. Sriracha Hot Chili Sauce. I skipped using any of their bottled hot sauces (though I did entertain using some of the Green Cholula®) because I was given four new spice-grinder-things from The Spice & Tea Exchange® (Thanks, Cindy!). I used some (at first lightly, then, after taste-testing it for picanteness, a bit more) Pirate's Bite (Prepare for a Bite!) on top of one of the poached eggs and half of the salad and some Earthly Delight (A Robust and Hearty Seasoning) on top of the other poached egg and the remaining half of the salad. Of the two, I think I liked the non-salt-based Earthly Delight a bit more. However, do not discount the peppery-flavour (black peppercorn, white peppercorn, bird's-eye chile pepper, chipotle peppers, cayenne pepper, Datil pepper, habanero pepper blend, and Scotch Bonnet pepper[3]) of the Pirate's Bite, me matey!

https://www.spiceandtea.com/

(We even have one of their shops locally here in San Francisco in some place called "Pier 39"... never heard of that place, though... )


Glen Bacon Scale Rating:
Breakfast Frisee Salad ~ 6.4 (this rating does not reflect all les m*udits lardons in the salad, which, of course, was not their reading error);
Campos® Coffee Kenya Thirikwa Gakuyuini AA ~ 7.2;
The Spice & Tea Exchange® Pirate's Bite ~ 6.7;
The Spice & Tea Exchange® Earthly Delight ~ 6.8

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1. Contrary to popular belief, "lardon" does not mean "un végétarien st*pide with a reading deficiency".

2. Well, botanically-speaking (which is not another "stupid, useless cunning linguist pointer of the day"), the only true berries in that mixture are: banana, blueberries, and goji berries.

3. Datil chillies, habanero chillies, and Scotch Bonnet chillies are three different cultivars of Capsicum chinense.

https://www.worldofchillies.com/Chilli-plant-varieties/Chilli-plant-varieties-Chinense/Chilli-plants-Capsicum-Chinense.html

(Also, speaking of botanicals, chilli peppers are actually berries, too.)