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</div><p>In my list of <a href="http://www.lunagraph.com/blog/2007/06/meals_i_miss.html" target="blank">meals I miss</a>, I mentioned love cakes from the <a href="http://www.flyingbiscuit.com" target="blank">Flying Biscuit</a> in Atlanta. The Biscuit (as it's affectionately known&mdash;or was by me and my friends when I lived nearby) has graciously posted the <a href="http://www.flyingbiscuit.com/recipes.html" target="blank">recipe</a> for love cakes on its site, so, having conjured them up in memory, I thought I'd try cooking some up in fact.</p>
<p>Because I wanted James to try the love cakes and didn't think he'd like the breakfast  version, I tasked myself with contriving a way to serve them for dinner. I settled on a fairly simple meal of love cakes and tomatillo salsa with shrimp (marinated in cilantro and lime juice, then saut&eacute;ed), pickled onions (from <a href="http://www.rickbayless.com/cookbooks/mexicankitchen.html" target="blank">this</a> Rick Bayless cookbook), and sliced avocado.
 This combination met with the approval of my sometimes finicky, bean-ambivalent spouse, though the enormous pile of dishes left in its wake illustrated once again why I prefer meals that can be cooked and served in one dish.</p>
<p class="photo"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcia-s/811766894/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1326/811766894_c31feecc85.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="love cakes meal" /></a><br><p class="caption">Love cakes dinner</p></p>
<p class="photo" style="margin-top: 10px"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcia-s/811768628/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1373/811768628_574809e04a.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="love cakes aftermath" /></a><br><p class="caption">Love cakes aftermath</p></p>
<p>I wouldn't be done with love cakes until I'd had them with eggs, so the next morning I fried an egg and one of the leftover cakes, set the egg on top of the cake, covered it with salsa, and sliced half an avocado to go alongside. Delicious. Since the love cake bounty was still unexhausted, this morning I had two cakes with an egg, salsa and pickled onions (see photo at top left). </p>
<p>Conclusion: Love cakes from the Flying Biscuit rule, even if you have to make them yourself.</p>