Sunday, April 25, 2010

Tasting food menu

This shows the food for the tasting -- I'll type up the text so it's more legible when I'm at an actual keyboard.

Update: Here is the actual text of the menu:

Being Belgian #5
April 25, 2010

Brewer's Board

Willamette Valley Cheese Co. Aged Gouda (cow's milk), Brigante Pina cheese (sheep's milk), apple slices, house pickled onions, cornichons and warm rustic bread.

This was the first course. The cheeses were both great, along with the bread and apples. The "cornichons" were some sort of little dill pickle, which were also nice.

Pommes Frites

Twice Fried potatoes, sea salt dusted with mayonaise

These were a great second course, although I liked the thicker cut fries we had a couple of tastings ago better.

Salad

Gathering Together Farms mixed greens, shredded beets, Framboise Vinaigrette.
The third course was a salad made from locally-grown very bitter greens. It was a bit much for me, since I'm not much of salad fan.

Ravioli

Hand made Ravioli stuffed with Smoked Rabbit & Goat Cheese Mousse, with a tart cherry cream sauce & Kriek braised greens
(random capitalization in original)

This was amazing -- the combination of beer and smoked rabbit ravioli was stunningly marvelous. We all tried to get Nick to make it a regular menu item, but he didn't seem thrilled with the idea. Evidently it's a bit labor intensive.

Tarte Au Fromage Blanc

Our own fresh made Fromage Blanc cheese tart studded with Rodenbach Grand Cru soaked figs. Finished with fresh whipped cream & local honey drizzle

Dessert was also quite good. I really liked the Fromage Blanc cheese, and as Nick described the process, it doesn't sound too bad to make at home. I might have to try that some time...

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