You should taste their goods!!

   My travels have brought me to Ann Arbor, Michigan for 2 weeks.  I went to school here so it is wonderful to be back.  And, now I have a chance to add some of my favorite college eats to my blog!  First on my list is a little place called "Taste Our Goods".  You can hardly call it a "place" as it is more of a stand inside Sparrow Market in Kerrytown.  But don't let the fact that they don't have their own space fool you.  "Taste Our Goods" serves up some of the best breakfast, salads and sandwiches around!  It is run by a few girls who graduated from the University of Michigan back in 2009 and they have been creating delicious and truly unique meals ever since.

   One of my favorite breakfast items here is the "suze's open face surprise".  It is 2 egg whites, goat cheese, avocado and spinach served open face on your choice of bread.  Yum!  (And healthy too!)  My last visit, however, was at lunch time.  So I ordered another one of my all time favorites.  The "josh salad" and the "rainbow brilliant sammich".  The "josh" is made up of quinoa cakes, roasted sweet potato, grilled peppers and onion over mixed greens.  You top the whole thing off with their amazing tahini dressing. 

  My "rainbow brilliant sammi" is a layered masterpiece of beets, purple onions, blue cheese, spinach, fried egg, sweet potato, tomato, and honeycup mustard.  As you can see from the photo below, it is well deserving of its rainbow title.

    This lunch has always been one of my favorites.  Vegetarians and carnivores alike will fall in love with this delectable and unique salad and sandwich.  Both are perfectly crafted so that the flavors compliment each other in the best way.  As you bite into the sandwich, the flavors hit you one by one.  You get the tang of the mustard, followed by the sweet of the beets and sweet potato, the tomato adds in some moisture and then comes the warm fried egg and the crunch of the spinach and onions.  It is a combination I would never have thought of on my own but I am so happy the girls at "Taste Our Goods" are much more creative.  This sandwich is simply magic to your taste buds.
  
    The "josh salad" is not to be forgotten though!  All of the components taste fresh and flavorful.  The peppers and onions are cooked to that perfect soft but still have a slight crunch state.  The sweet potato again adds a warm and sweet taste that is unexpected but oh so welcomed.  But as good as all of those are, the quinoa cakes are truly the star of this salad.  The are slightly crunchy on the outside and then warm and fluffy on the inside.  Mix a bite of the quinoa cake with a little sweet potato, lettuce and tahini dressing and you have reached perfection.

   If you are in Ann Arbor you must check out "Taste Our Goods".  Not only is it delicious but very affordable and healthy.  They get all their ingredients from the local market they are attached to, so things always taste fresh.  Furthermore, the girls are really nice, down-to-earth, and intelligent people.  They majored in things like art history, psychology, and Russian literature, so conversation is always interesting.  So come out and support a great, local eatery and make your taste buds very happy. 


"One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating."  ~Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright