And we’re on to Part 2 of our Outer Banks culinary adventures! (Read Part 1 here.) One morning Mrs. Breakfast With Nick and I ventured south for breakfast, just the two of us. After our first pick wasn’t open during their stated hours (boo), we crept along Highway 12 and found ourselves at the Gingerbread House Bakery. It’s a distinctly-shaped structure in Frisco, serving lots of baked goods and some excellent pizza. It’s also the site of the VERY FIRST Breakfast With Nick review, over seven years ago. (You’re welcome to follow the link to the review, but be kind. I really didn’t know what I was doing then.)
The Gingerbread House fully embraces their name. To the point that the fences (which are brown) are topped with gingerbread men cut-outs, and the building itself (which is also brown) is dotted with colorful candy.
We considered this our breakfast pre-game, so we simply ordered some espresso and a couple donuts. (We stopped later for a full breakfast elsewhere – post to come soon!)
The crew at Gingerbread must run long hours, if they’re working early enough to serve fresh baked goods, while staying open late enough for the dinner crowd.
If the lines for apple uglies at the Orange Blossom are too long, you’ve got some great donuts one village over at Gingerbread. These are really hard to beat.
Happy Seventh Anniversary to Breakfast With Nick! Here’s to many more years of good meals and great fun.
At home, another annual family favorite is a simple crab dip, with cream cheese, lots of fresh crab, and cocktail sauce. Mrs. Breakfast With Nick’s grandmother doesn’t trust the store-bought sauce, so she makes her own.
Part of the fun of staying in a big house with the family is getting to cook for each other. A couple mornings we made crepes for the fam.
We learned an easy recipe from our friend Andy at Wild Goose years ago, and it’s served us well.
Even though we don’t have fancy crepe pans, we’ve learned to use ours just fine.
For fun, we plated up a couple crepes and iced coffee in the style of Symmetry Breakfast. Symmetry Breakfast is an instagram kindred spirit in London; he plates and photographs his breakfast every morning in a beautiful symmetrical manner. I tagged him in the photo, and he approved.
This year for the first time we ordered steamed crabs. One of the local shops uses their own spice mix (the guy there scoffs when you mention Old Bay). I had to recall my last trip to Maryland, to be sure I was dismembering the crabs for maximum crab meat.
For our last dinner on vacation, we ordered out from the Dolphin Den in Avon. I can never stay away from fried seafood platters, and theirs is top notch: fresh fish, clams, oysters, crabcake, scallops.
All in all, another good year of eating on the OBX! Who else has been? Where or what do you like to eat?
