New-crop potatoes. Zucchini scramble. Summer tomatoes.
Everything but the eggs from the garden.
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Raspberry shortcakes. We picked the berries yesterday and as I suspected, my parents said they tasted better for having done the work themselves. New experience for them.
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Oatmeal with stir-ins - a handful of fresh cranberries, a handful of pecans, 2 T. apple sauce, 1 T orange juice. Cooked then drizzled with maple syrup. One of the “upgrade your oatmeal” combo suggestions published last winter in our grocery store magazine.
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Let’s see… soft-boiled egg, whole wheat toast with cream cheese & trout roe, a slice of Swiss sourdough with the last of the San Daniele ham & Bavarian brie, and a slice of pumpkin seed bread with teawurst and cucumber. Pretty standard breakfast in Berlin.
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I’m so excited I picked 5 ripe raspberries yesterday for breakfast! This is a recovery year for my berry patch. They were so delicious; looking forward to a few later today. Red currants are ready to pick, too.
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Very cool! We picked from a local growers spot. I don’t have any in my yard. And then my parents wanted to go to the Saturday farmers market and picked up some red currants there. I’d never tried them. Summer is such a great time for eating - all the produce!
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Tacos de papa. Potato tacos with crispy fried onion, cheese, and seasoned with garlic, cumin and paprika. Zucchini scramble. Garden tomatoes.
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My version of avocado toast with bacon, fried egg, pesto and no avocado.
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I need a lesson please!
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Gracias. But I want the lesson for what’s on @MunchkinRedux’s plate 
@ Saregama
For four tacos:
I took about 200 grams of gold potatoes, cut them into chunks, left the skin on, tossed in olive oil, salt and pepper, and then microwaved in a covered, vented dish for 7 minutes 'til cooked.
Meanwhile, chopped some scallions, and fried the white parts only until crispy.
Mashed the cooked potatoes coarsely (I left a lot of texture), folded in the fried scallions and the scallion greens, added good pinches of cumin, smokey paprika and garlic powder. More of the spice was better.
Warmed the corn tortillas briefly just to make them pliable. Spread 2-3 T. of the potato mixture on one-half of the tortilla. Topped with about 1/4 ounce of cheese. Folded over, and fastened together with a toothpick. Not sure that toothpick business is necessary, and I might skip it next time.
Fried in hot oil over medium heat about two minutes per side, 'til golden, crispy and the cheese was melty.
They were really good.
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Thank you so much! Bookmarking.
This sounds like my first and best ever potato taco, eaten at a place in LA I’ll never find on my own that my friends drove to right after they picked me up at the airport because “you have to eat this potato taco” 
— and it was definitely held together during the deep frying.
The rest of your description sounds like it tasted, so thank you. I’m too shy on oil usually, but to crisp them up, there’s no avoiding it!
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Slacker! You can’t grow eggs in your garden? JK - all of your produce is amazing. Especially when I compare to my own efforts (wah wah).
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Kind of a random aside, but do you ever get mad at the fried breakfast potatoes? I do. I am sure they are so much faster and easier than to saute same in a skillet with onions and such, but I find them to be such a poor substitute and I always feel a bit sad and a bit cheated when I get the fried potato cubes.
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It didn’t take too much given what it is - a couple of tablespoons maybe? One could probably get away with even less, I suppose.
I def did not deep fry them.
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Yeah, I hear you. I am fussy about breakfast potatoes.
Breakfast potatoes tend to be better in the States I visit (mostly NY, PA, CA and CO, where my relatives live) , than they are in Toronto or London, Ontario where I live.
So- breakfast potatoes are weak in Toronto. I guess people don’t know better. I’m a bit of a brunch addict. I’ve been trying a lot of the brunches and breakfasts in Toronto over the past 35 years. I am focused on bennies, breakfast sandwiches, huevos, and brunch mains that include duck confit or smoked salmon.
Despite going for brunch or a breakfast sandwich around 6 times a month the last 3 years, and more frequently before that, I can’t even think of a place that makes excellent home fries in Toronto off the top of my head, whereas I could recommend half a dozen places for bennies, a few places for breakfast sandwiches and a few places for huevos.
I focus on the Benny. I was thinking, as I paid up for today’s Benny I will say no potato and no salad next time. 
The one place in Toronto that did good pan-fried home fries burned down in 2018 or 2019 (Detroit Eatery, because the Greek Cdn owner liked the sports teams in Detroit).
The best Brunch potato main I’ve had in Canada was at Benny’s Bistro in Ottawa. Scalloped potatoes, topped with pork loin drizzled with maple syrup, topped with a poached egg, drizzled with Hollandaise.
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You’ve done quite the study of brunch! I love a benny, but am a traditionalist. Only the canadian bacon version please. And I don’t need much with the potatoes, but I want them done in a pan. If I wanted them fried, I’d get fries, which are a much better rendition of this.
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