Beef barbacoa enchilada platter with boracha bean soup and mexican rice from Zia Taqueria.
Ted’s Friday night dinner 15-Jan-2010
Another really good Friday night dinner at Ted’s Butcherblock. Happy chickens make for very tender chicken fricasse it seems.
Smoked Pimenton Chicken Fricasse with Pan Jus / Local Baby Maroon Carrots & Turnips with Truffle Honey Butter / Creamed Black Italian Kale / Carrot Cake
One of the best carrot cakes I’ve had in a long time
Ted’s 2010
Sausage & Baguette Stuffed Pork Loin with Tomato Butter / Smoked Local Farmers Market Ratatouille / Potato & Sage Gratin / Pavlova with Local Kiwi Couli & Cayenne Chocolate Ganache
Loved the pork loin, and the smoked ratatouille was excellent, as was the gratin.
Had no idea there were kiwi fruits being grown locally. The pavlova was pretty sweet and not quite to the liking of my dinner companions, but I liked it.
The pictures were taken with the new phone. They turned out fairly decent. The noise is definitely noticeable in the full resolution images, but not unexpected because of the low lighting.
Christmas noms
Christmas eats
Round 1 of Christmas dinner, with some token greenery
Dinner with friends
Brought friends with me to Friday Night Dinner at Ted’s Butcherblock and had a pretty good time with Yaenette, Theresa, Clay and Kenny this evening. During dessert, Clay and Kenny got distracted showing off their cell phones to an older couple next to us, Theresa and Yaenette started talking horses, and me, I just happily polished off my dessert. This week’s meal was pretty good, especially the shrimp. I don’t think it was quite as knock-your-socks-off good as some of the previous dinners, but still pretty tasty.
Caper, Olive Oil & Sweet Lemon Marinated Grilled Shrimp / Roasted Root Vegetable & Baby Eggplant Caponata with a Fennel-Tarragon Pepperonata Sauce / Parmesan Creamed Rice / Orange Blossom Pistachio Cake with vanilla Thyme Crema
