Pineapple Frappé with Bonus Breakfast Tortilla

Mmm. So warm. Comfy. Sleepy. Go back to sleep.

Thirsty.

Don’t care. Sleep.

Thirsty and need to pee.

Argh.

What’s the time? The Husband suggested a trip to Newtown for breakfast this morning, and I don’t want to be hungry before we leave or I’ll be crankypants by the time we find a parking spot. Crankypants no good for breakfast dates.

Probably time to arise. But soooo waaaaarm…

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Oo, the table at the window is free, nab a seat and claim the prime people-watching position!

Menu, menu… I always get the pancakes cause they are fantastic, but I really do need to keep extending my wings…

Hmm, vegetarian tortilla? The Husband has talked about how he used to have tortillas for breakfast in Guatemala. Maybe I will try! Weird that it says ‘grilled vegetables’ but not egg – doesn’t sound very Mexican – but okay.

That’s not really a new food though… that’s just eating dinner food at breakfast. I can’t write about that.

But I could get a drink I haven’t had before!

Let’s see… darn it, they all include orange juice… oh, here’s one. ‘Pineapple cocktail, with apple mint and ice’. Er… but I don’t want to get my booze on at 9am…

Asking the waitress; it’s alcohol free! So more of a frappé. All to the good.

She returns with a glass of green. The juice is a light green, lighter than grass but the crayon colour children use to represent it. There are tiny flecks of dark green mint all through it. At least half the glass is a mush of ice and juice, with a bottom story of juice.

Stirring with my straw. Take a sip.

Erk! I think there’s orange juice in it after all. But that wasn’t  listed!

Warily trying again. It’s very tart, that’s certain. But you’re being paranoid. If there were any orange at all in it it would show in the colour. It’s just pineapple. Relax.

Sip again. I like it more now that I don’t think it’s orange.

The pineapple flavour is not as sweet as I’d expect, it really is quite tart. The mint is there in the background but not too strong. There is an apple note in it, perhaps there is green apple in there supplying all the bite.

It’s okay. This is why I don’t normally go for frappés… I just don’t care much for fruit juice. Also, this really needed some really sweet pineapple flavour… maybe it’s the wrong time of year… I do think it is actual fresh from the fruit because I saw her carrying a stack of whole pineapples over to the drinks bay earlier. Can’t complain much if you order a drink out of season.

But good to have my avoidance of frappés confirmed. And now the food arrives.

Blinking at the plate in front of me. Surprising. My tortilla is not the rolled up snack I had imagined, but a giant pile of eggplant and roasted capsicum with melted cheese pizza-style on a tortilla base. A fried egg is perched on top, guacamole and sour cream to the side.

I really don’t think that mediteranian-style eggplant and capsicum should even be in a breakfast tortilla, let alone make up the bulk. Or they should at least be on the menu! And funny that there is an egg when it wasn’t listed, though I am happy about that…

Taste. Well, it tastes fine, it tastes like mediterranean vegetables. Not really what I wanted at this hour.

Um, but the more I eat the more I know that I am going to stuff myself silly. Because I’ve got the taste for it now… and I hate to waste… nomnomnom…

The Husband drinks the rest of my frappé for me so I don’t have to be sad about it going to waste, even though he’s not much of a fan either. So nice to me!

Very full… would not order either of those again… wish things were more accurately described on the menu… but a satisfied stomach nonetheless, and a lovely start to the day with my love.

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Specifics: Pineapple cocktail and vegetarian tortilla eaten at Corelli’s Café, Newtown