Pazia, good to know that you were able to hold them together with only egg, no almond meal or other binder. Did you broil or fry? I'm partial to pan fried in butter, which definitely tests the ability for them to hold together!

Thanks for the recommendation on Clyde's - I will seek them out while there. We're staying near the zoo, so if we can tear ourselves away from the museums, we will check it out. Yeah, DC can be brutal in the summer. I have good practice having lived in Houston for ~40 years (from the frying pan into the fire?) but I know I'll be outdoors more in DC than I usually was in the peak of summer in Houston. After a week in DC, we head to the southern Md coast (Chesapeake Beach) to cool off.