One Lovely Wednesday (plus a toy for the end of your patience)
Thursday, August 18th, 2011 12:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jesse_the_kThe weather was lovely, and we took The Lucy for a 20-minute romp in the dog park. I walked, too.
After that we were feeling quite lazy, so we went to one of our favorite restaurants:
The Kennedy Manor Dining Room & Bar
It's in the basement of a nice apartment building across the street from the lake (around 3 blocks north of the WisCon hotel). It's owned and operated by a family, and the food is beautifully prepared and delicious.
I started with a pâté of chicken liver and bourbon, with red onion, chopped egg, and (just for me) a sliced cucumber to heap it on. It had a truly sexual mouthfeel, and deep swirly flavor. Then I had the mushroom and spinach risotto in vegetable broth with Shitake & button mushrooms, spinach, onion, garlic, asiago, and parmesan cheese. Let me just say this was a celebration of texture! The slightly toothy rice, the slithery rich mushrooms, and the gently bitter spinach swam in a tender brothy-cheesy soup.
MyGuy enjoyed his "sardinian-style" pork tenderloin, marinated in olive oil, rosemary, and garlic. Fork-tender meat was complemented by caramelized root vegetables, pine nuts and a port wine and currant sauce.
If you had just the opposite sort of day, here's a link for when you just can't take it anymore.
After that we were feeling quite lazy, so we went to one of our favorite restaurants:
The Kennedy Manor Dining Room & Bar
It's in the basement of a nice apartment building across the street from the lake (around 3 blocks north of the WisCon hotel). It's owned and operated by a family, and the food is beautifully prepared and delicious.
I started with a pâté of chicken liver and bourbon, with red onion, chopped egg, and (just for me) a sliced cucumber to heap it on. It had a truly sexual mouthfeel, and deep swirly flavor. Then I had the mushroom and spinach risotto in vegetable broth with Shitake & button mushrooms, spinach, onion, garlic, asiago, and parmesan cheese. Let me just say this was a celebration of texture! The slightly toothy rice, the slithery rich mushrooms, and the gently bitter spinach swam in a tender brothy-cheesy soup.
MyGuy enjoyed his "sardinian-style" pork tenderloin, marinated in olive oil, rosemary, and garlic. Fork-tender meat was complemented by caramelized root vegetables, pine nuts and a port wine and currant sauce.
If you had just the opposite sort of day, here's a link for when you just can't take it anymore.
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Date: 2011-08-18 07:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-08-18 10:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-08-18 07:58 pm (UTC)That entire meal sounds gangbusters. I'm not sure which sounds like the best part. All of it, basically. I'm glad you had a relaxing, wonderful day. No doubt you deserved it. :)
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Date: 2011-08-18 10:10 pm (UTC)I edited out some of the more gruesome items — Dog fights owner over terrified bunny, and wins! — but it was pretty darn swell. There are 10 perfect-weather days in this city, and that was one of them.
I think the chicken liver pate was the best. In a pretty ramekin! With a thin layer of schmaltz! If my bubbe had made it like that I would have gone to her house for dinner more.
Mostly I am sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeping because I'm hypothyroid. For once I can sleep with no guilt, and that's swell. You?
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Date: 2011-08-18 11:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-08-19 01:44 am (UTC)