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Dog Accordionist

(Adjective) Chicken Tenders

So far a batch of barley malt has helped me make beer, bread, and chicken tenders teeming with adjectives:

Spicy Baked Parmesan Spent Grain Breaded Chicken Tender

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Photo scan. Fern Lake trailhead in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, 2001.

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Quentin

Victuals

Yesterday was Cathy's birthday, and as usual, we splurged on a nice dinner - this time at a place called L2O, which I guess is relatively famous around here. As expected, everything was excellent, although I always feel out of my element at fine dining establishments. I'm much more at home walking into a pub, grabbing a strong ale, and ordering food off a laminated menu. But whatever, it was all very delicious and fun, and of course, I couldn't resist taking photos of the food to memorialize the occasion. Here are a couple of the courses:


We elected to do a tasting menu which had about 10 courses, with the first big one being this: oscietra caviar, kindai toro, shiso salt. Plated to look like a fish comet.


King prawn, coconut, green tomato, uni, jicama slaw, jalapeño emulsion and some other tasty crap I don't remember.


Maine lobster, foie gras, black trumpet marmalade, some micro-chives, and a sauce I'd be willing to pound a pint of. I'm a bit conflicted about foie gras. I find it delicious but the process behind it is...troubling. Because of that, I never actually order it but I'll eat it up if it's set before me.


Lime-cucumber sorbet. It wasn't really part of the menu so I think it was generally intended to be a palate cleanser. Good stuff either way.

Yommy.

Nothing

As you can tell from the lack of posts, there isn't much going on with me these days. I'm rather busy at work right now so I lack the time for my various diversions. For the most part, I'm just looking forward to the hiking season, so hopefully my schedule and the weather will clear up soon. Once that happens, the brewing is sure to take a backseat to everything else, but such is life.



Drinking: IPA, hybrid pale ale, American brown ale, robust porter
Bottle Conditioning: nothing
Fermenting: Special bitter, Belgian witbier
Planning: Maybe a brown ale