Dinner 2025

[C. sapidus]

For SIL's last meal here we went out to Wye Oak Tavern, a Voltaggio restaurant in a de-consecrated abbey.

 

Instead of getting mains we dined on appetizers and sides. Started with coddies - salted cod brandade, cauliflower tartar sauce, cauliflower giardiniera (not pictured)

 

Rest of the meal, from top left:

 

House salad - iceberg lettuce, carrot vinaigrette, lime yogurt, chickpea crunch

Shells & cheese - toasted panko, aged cheddar, chives

Spiced sweet potatoes - pomegranate molasses, lime yogurt

Broccoli rabe - broccoli chimichurri, crushed red pepper, crispy garlic

Crab cake - shishito emulsion, blue corn tortilla, buttermilk lime crema

Smoked beet pastrami - gruyere cheese funnel cake, thousand island dressing

Macaroni - dry aged beef bolognese, fontina fondue

 

My favorites were the sweet potato and broccoli rabe. After a little walking around we stopped for a flight of ice cream - roasted strawberry, caramel crunch, butter pecan, and honey graham.

 

Edited 6 hours ago by C. sapidus (log)

[blue_dolphin]

2 hours ago, C. sapidus said:

Instead of getting mains we dined on appetizers and sides

My favorite sort of dining out - excellent choices, too!

[Ddanno]

5 minutes ago, blue_dolphin said:

My favorite sort of dining out - excellent choices, too!

It's one of mine too, I've often picked four starters I want to eat before getting down to the main courses on a menu

[Duvel]

8 hours ago, rotuts said:

BTW :  what are these antenna used for ?

 

 

II havent seen these in quite a while .

 

probably not for getting Cooking Shows, as the Locals seem to have cooking down pat.

Yeah … as @Ddanno said: terrestrial TV (and/or radio) reception. Unlikely to be useful anymore, but who knows ..!?

[Norm Matthews]

Charlie had dental work yesterday and the dentist put him on a soft food diet for the next couple of weeks.  I decided to make Italian Wedding Soup for dinner. It isn't something you might think of making in the middle of August but the meat balls are small and soft, plus It's nutritional and tasty.