tonight's dinner is 'a summer sketchbook'
course I:
idyll for a San Juan Afternoon
(starting at bottom going clockwise)
- geoduck crudo w/lemon thyme dressing & dehydrated sweet pees (yes, the *very* rare typo
- st jude albacore w/pickled erbfarm fillet beans & fennel pollen chip [the best dam potato chip you'll ever have!]
- potato fondant, onion dip & smoked steelhead caviar [thrice fried potato - think 'grown up tator tot!]
- capitello oregon brut w/choice of summer herbs
course II: (missing - no idea why/how i don't have a pic)
wild columbia river sturgeon
- slowly cooked miso-marinated columbia river sturgeon w/wild sea asparagus, and grilled summer squash w/kimichi radish
- 2007 ponzi vineyards pinot blanc, willamette valley oregon
course III:
salmon and Herbfarm Egg Yolk Raviolo w/truffled sweet corn cream
- 2008 soter vineyards north valley rose of pinot noir, oregon
course IV
bernie nash's pastured chicken blanquette
w/ farm savoy cabbage, blue solaize leeks, and creamy champaigne-dijon sauce
- 2005 domaine serene chardonnay, clos du soleil, wilamette valley oregon
course V:
a study in beef
-(from top clockwise) short rib
- NY strip of Wagyu
- rib eye
with housemade worchestershire glaze, fava bean brandade, roasted beets, and tropia onion rings
- 2006 a maurice malbec, columbia valley, WA
wine with cheese course
course VI:
fresh sancho-scented chevre w/poppyseed brioche and herbfarm knotweed honey
course VII:
chidhood revisited
-candied lovage straws w/ finch family farm bing cherry ice cream
course VIII:
strawberry fields
-minted lavendar buttermilk panna cotta with strawberry sorbet, lemon verbena-marinated strawberries and cornmeal shortbread cookie
course IX:
a selection of small treats (top to bottom)
- pineapple sage-pear pate a fruits
- rosemary-lemon balm fortune cookie
- chicory-bacon milk chocolate foils
- black & white rose geranium truffle
- dark chocolate sour-cherry elixir
- 2007 andrew rich late harvest gewurztraminer columbia valley
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