What did you cook or eat today (July 2019)?

[The Late Night Gourmet]

Just arrived in my nations capital, and I ate at a restaurant that had a creative twist on the Cuban dish: saffron rice and pickles with green olives. The pork wasn’t spicy, but it was tasty.

You know what chicken pot pie tastes like, right? They manage to pack all the best of your mom's pot pie into little nuggets of awesome (left).

Spring rolls are often greasy, but the shiitake mushroom spring rolls are light and bursting with mushroom flavor.

Expensive (of course) but we’re less than a mile from the White House, so the price isn’t a shock.

 

[rascal]

Great looking meal, from warshington huh? Looks poifect.

Russ

 

[rascal]

Bowl of porridge for brekky, grandsons crook and needs a sitter. He had left over pizza. He beat me at uno and draughts ,lol.

Russ

 

[rascal]

Crumbed chicken with pepper sauce, roast veges, steam in bag veges.

Russ

 

[Lullabelle]

Wasn't all that hungry so just wanted a prawn baguette for lunch, this was a little more than expected

 

[Yorky]

Wasn't all that hungry so just wanted a prawn baguette for lunch, this was a little more than expected

Prawn baguette sounds great.

What are those weird shaped spoons?

 

[Lullabelle]

Prawn baguette sounds great.

What are those weird shaped spoons?

They are weird shaped spoons

 

[The Velvet Curtain]

Strictly what Lu and I ate last night.

To start, steak tartar with dried egg yolk and caviar

Then gazpacho with salt cod.

The starter was snow crab cannelloni with a blue mussel foam.

The fish course, hake with charred lettuce and a fish veloute

Carrot and asparagas with a smoked confit egg yolk and a cauliflower cream

Baby goat, potato profiteroles, greens and a tomato mayonaise

A pallet cleanser of raspberry, rhubarb and elderflower

Then finally flavours of strawberry on chocolate with a strawberry churos.

All washed down with a splendid white rioja.

 

[Lullabelle]

Prawn baguette sounds great.

What are those weird shaped spoons?

They are weird shaped spoons

The spoon on the left was for doritos andbthe one on the right was a chutney, gerkins and shallots.

 

[Morning Glory]

Strictly what Lu and I ate last night.

To start, steak tartar with dried egg yolk and caviar
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Then gazpacho with salt cod.
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The starter was snow crab cannelloni with a blue mussel foam.
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The fish course, hake with charred lettuce and a fish veloute
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Carrot and asparagas with a smoked confit egg yolk and a cauliflower cream
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Baby goat, potato profiteroles, greens and a tomato mayonaise
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A pallet cleanser of raspberry, rhubarb and elderflower

Then finally flavours of strawberry on chocolate with a strawberry churos.
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All washed down with a splendid white rioja.

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How superb! That's what I call dining out.

 

[The Velvet Curtain]

How superb! That's what I call dining out.

It was Restaurant 1877 in Bergen.

http://www.restaurant1877.no/restaurant-1877-english/#topp

Each course was brought to the table and introduced by the chef who prepared it, very nice.

And as I know you are interested in these things, their cheapest wine was £75.

The highlight of the meal was the snow crab, the mussel sauce with it was so wonderful I could have bathed in it.

 

[CraigC]

Mojo marinated grilled chix thighs, black beans, rice, Maduros and "pan Cubano".

 

[Morning Glory]

their cheapest wine was £75.

(faints...)


I've never paid that much for a bottle of wine. But - well, I suppose you are on holiday.

 

[Morning Glory]

Chicken Breast 'en papillote' with Mango Mustard for the Recipe Challenge:

 

[The Velvet Curtain]

(faints...)


I've never paid that much for a bottle of wine. But - well, I suppose you are on holiday.

The prices here in Balestrand where we are now are a little more reasonable, a 0.5l beer cost around £8 rather than the £11-13 they wanted in Bergen, the food is similarly better priced. If you take out the rubbish exchange rate caused by the Brexit shambles then really the prices wouldn't be so eye wateringly frightening for us Brits.