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selkie at 07:31pm on 14/01/2006
selkie at 07:31pm on 14/01/2006....gosh, doesn't that subject line make it sound like this post is going to be exciting?
Today we had lunch at Aquarelle, which was medium-fabulous. The service was swift, the parking was free. While we were in the restaurant, the weather gave up and died and now it's spitting snow, but never mind that. What we ate:
Wife: bean and pancetta soup, salmon with grainy mustard sauce and ragout of lentils du puy
Me: Goat cheese, roasted beet and sorrel salad vinaigrette, hanger steak with frites and red wine shallot reduction
Both of us: Valhrona chocolate torte with milk chocolate-burnt rum ice cream
The lack of fabulous was actually my red wine-shallot reduction, which was very, very, very assertive to put it nicely, and which the hanger steak didn't need. I traded most of my frites for most of my wife's lentil ragout (maybe I'm just genetically coded to give things up for pottage).
The dessert, however, made up for the flawed main course. That torte was beautiful.
Went to the office for two hours to do a mailing for Doorways . My wife helped. She has a good heart, or maybe she was just afraid I'd hurt myself with the power of mail merge and a tube of envelope sealer.
And then we went to Balducci's to get some pancetta to replicate the soup, and I found that they were selling Vosges Haut Chocolat by the bar. Red Fire! Naga! Woollomolloo! Black Pearl! Mmmmm. I didn't get a single bar, though, because they were going for $6 apiece and we still had the grocery shopping to do for things other than pancetta. It's like grown-up Willy Wonka for the super-palate set, though. You should try it.
Which brings me to a tip for Alexandria-Arlington folks: Shoppers Food Mart has classed itself way, way up. They have an olive bar now! They have King Arthur flour! We were so pleased. And we got so much food. The raw meats and produce are still kind of skeevy (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thyesc, esti626 -- we got the eye of round roast from Balducci's) but the selection is so much broader there than it was.
We came home to learn, courtesy ofsibylla, that I can have a MY LITTLE SLEIPNIR T-SHIRT.
Muhahaha.
And now to write.
Today we had lunch at Aquarelle, which was medium-fabulous. The service was swift, the parking was free. While we were in the restaurant, the weather gave up and died and now it's spitting snow, but never mind that. What we ate:
Wife: bean and pancetta soup, salmon with grainy mustard sauce and ragout of lentils du puy
Me: Goat cheese, roasted beet and sorrel salad vinaigrette, hanger steak with frites and red wine shallot reduction
Both of us: Valhrona chocolate torte with milk chocolate-burnt rum ice cream
The lack of fabulous was actually my red wine-shallot reduction, which was very, very, very assertive to put it nicely, and which the hanger steak didn't need. I traded most of my frites for most of my wife's lentil ragout (maybe I'm just genetically coded to give things up for pottage).
The dessert, however, made up for the flawed main course. That torte was beautiful.
Went to the office for two hours to do a mailing for Doorways . My wife helped. She has a good heart, or maybe she was just afraid I'd hurt myself with the power of mail merge and a tube of envelope sealer.
And then we went to Balducci's to get some pancetta to replicate the soup, and I found that they were selling Vosges Haut Chocolat by the bar. Red Fire! Naga! Woollomolloo! Black Pearl! Mmmmm. I didn't get a single bar, though, because they were going for $6 apiece and we still had the grocery shopping to do for things other than pancetta. It's like grown-up Willy Wonka for the super-palate set, though. You should try it.
Which brings me to a tip for Alexandria-Arlington folks: Shoppers Food Mart has classed itself way, way up. They have an olive bar now! They have King Arthur flour! We were so pleased. And we got so much food. The raw meats and produce are still kind of skeevy (
thyesc, esti626 -- we got the eye of round roast from Balducci's) but the selection is so much broader there than it was. We came home to learn, courtesy of
sibylla, that I can have a MY LITTLE SLEIPNIR T-SHIRT.Muhahaha.
And now to write.
(no subject)