In advance of every one of our adventures, we do a ton of homework on where and what to eat. The Fighting Couple likes food, A LOT. We peruse all the typical sites: Trip Advisor, Urban Spoon, Yelp etc. We like food so much we’ll walk for hours in a foreign city just to find the restaurant we read about on the internet. True story: once we wandered aimlessly around Amsterdam for two hours because Mike wanted to eat at a certain restaurant, but that’s another fight.
Finding the perfect undiscovered café is always a chore. Finding a great breakfast is even more difficult. Sure, you’ve probably been victim to the free hotel breakfasts of Wonder bread and Smuckers Jam. But what if you could stay at a charming place and wake up to a gourmet breakfast that would blow your food budget if you ate it separately? You can!
We introduce you to Kindred Spirits located in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island. 1000 Fights toured Prince Edward Island this summer to worship at the altar of Anne of Green Gables, oh and to golf. There’s a lot to like about PEI and really in our experience zero to dislike.
But what we liked most was the food and particularly the food at our bed and breakfast. Kindred Spirits is the kind of place you stay and like so much you come back to stay again and again. And for the Anne followers, who couldn’t like a place named, Kindred Spirits?
When we read the room included breakfast, we imagined the typical fare you get at any standard hotel. Imagine our surprise when for breakfast we walked and found the homemade meal that would make your grandmother envy! French toast made from French bread with an apple and caramel sauce to slather over it. Or try the homemade blueberry scones with the lemon blueberry preserves or raspberry champagne jam. Don’t forget the breakfast casserole that includes cheese, potatoes, and sausage. And that’s just the main entrees. There is also fresh fruit, yogurt and cereal, plus fresh juices. Are you hungry yet?
Prince Edward Island is truly a culinary mecca.
Bed and breakfasts have long been the choice of traveling couples who want something that feels like home, but a room they don’t have to clean up. But a new movement is brewing where the breakfast is becoming just as important as the bed. A quick internet search and you’ll find many of the the B&B’s proudly advertising what guests will eat, not just where they will sleep. There’s also a site dedicated just to recipes at premiere B&Bs.
Thanks to Kindred Spirits, 1000 Fights is pleased to publish the Inn’s signature breakfast dish: Blueberry Cake. I took one bite of this and then another and another and another. It’s embarrassing when a grown woman goes for thirds, not just seconds. But it was that good! So here’s the recipe for you to enjoy! Who knows maybe it will spread like the $250 Neiman Marcus cookie recipe! You are probably wondering where the Pinterest worthy picture of the cake is? Yeah, the cake is so good…we kinda forgot about blogging for a few mins…. We hope you have the same experience!
Kindred Spirits Blue Berry Crumb Breakfast Cake
Ingredients for cake: 2 eggs, 1 cup sugar, 2.5 cup flour, 4 tsp baking powder, 1 tsp salt, 2/3 cup milk, 6 tbsp melted butter (or margarine), 2 cups blueberries (small, wild berries preferably), 4 tbsp sugar
– Grease 9 x 13 pan
– In medium bowl, beat eggs with wooden spoon. Gradually beat in sugar until well combines
– In separate dish, sift together flour, baking powder and salt and then add to the sugar/egg mixture alternately with the milk. Beat well after each addition
– Add the melted butter and beat thoroughly
– Gently fold in blueberries (fresh or frozen). Batter should not be blue!
– Pour into the greased pan
– Sprinkle the top with 2 tbsp sugar
– Refrigerate Overnight
The following day, bake in a preheated oven (350 degrees) for approx. 45 minutes (until springs back when poked!)
– When finished, pour a mixture of 1/4 melted butter and 3 tbsp lemon juice and then sprinkle the following topping to cover thecake:
– Topping: 1/2 cup shortening, 8 tbsp flour, 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp cinnamon, 2 cups of brown sugar, 1/4 cup oats (optional). Mix together with a pastry blender
YUM!
We are Mike and Luci.