Friday night, we began our weekend in the nearby town of Bath with a quick bite and a drink at our dear friends' Daphne and Eloise's new restaurant, Salt Pine Social. The restaurant was festive and humming, guests clinking their drinks, servers buzzing between tables, the bartender and cooks flat out. We were grateful to have snagged the last two seats at the bar, our favorite spot to dine. With glasses of bourbon and beer in hand, we perused a fresh menu divided into three categories: animal, vegetable and mineral.
Vegetable:
We began our culinary experience noshing on a scrumptious chiogga and golden beet salad with citrus and arugula just as a complimentary bowl of melt in your mouth Myer lemon ricotta gnocchi with parsley pesto arrived.
Mineral:
Next, we dipped into the sea, beginning with a parchment-lined terracotta bowl cradling a heap of deep fried anchovies, followed by a plate of garlicy fried calamari, a platter of gravlox and cream served aside a stack of nutty Danish rye triangles and, lastly, a bowl of plump and savory le moules. Regrettably, we had to leave our hosts and our happy sojourn abruptly in order to make it home in time to relieve Calvin's nurse.
Vegetable:
Considering how things have gone for Calvin of late, it was a good weekend. He hasn't had an observed seizure of any kind in nine days, though he has exhibited some suspicious behaviors, spells of dubious pallor and a bit of what I call seizure breath. I anticipated grand mals last night and the night before, so I tried a new strategy. After midnight both nights, I gave Calvin four milligrams of homemade THC cannabis tincture, a quick and minuscule squirt inside of his cheek, not enough to wake him or risk aspiration. The seizures never manifested.
Animal. Vegetable:
On Saturday night we hosted a small dinner party with some friends we hadn't seen for awhile. Michael had spent most of the afternoon in the kitchen making a chicken mole. He made it with toasted sesame and pumpkin seeds, jalapeños and cilantro and served it over rice with warm corn tortillas, sour cream, guacamole and green salsa. Before eating, we sat before the fire talking cracking jokes and talking about, among other things, corn snakes, oscars, goldfish and frozen mice snake treats.
Vegetable:
While I mashed avocados in a bowl between my knees, I looked beyond our guests out the French doors to a glowing early evening garden, glistening with new rain and splashed with bunches of color from magnolias, amelanchiers, early-blooming rhododendrons, tulips and the crimson of young peony shoots.
Mineral:
As sparkling water and wine poured freely at the dinner table, upstairs our sweet Calvin slept like a stone.
Vegetable:
We began our culinary experience noshing on a scrumptious chiogga and golden beet salad with citrus and arugula just as a complimentary bowl of melt in your mouth Myer lemon ricotta gnocchi with parsley pesto arrived.
Mineral:
Next, we dipped into the sea, beginning with a parchment-lined terracotta bowl cradling a heap of deep fried anchovies, followed by a plate of garlicy fried calamari, a platter of gravlox and cream served aside a stack of nutty Danish rye triangles and, lastly, a bowl of plump and savory le moules. Regrettably, we had to leave our hosts and our happy sojourn abruptly in order to make it home in time to relieve Calvin's nurse.
Vegetable:
Considering how things have gone for Calvin of late, it was a good weekend. He hasn't had an observed seizure of any kind in nine days, though he has exhibited some suspicious behaviors, spells of dubious pallor and a bit of what I call seizure breath. I anticipated grand mals last night and the night before, so I tried a new strategy. After midnight both nights, I gave Calvin four milligrams of homemade THC cannabis tincture, a quick and minuscule squirt inside of his cheek, not enough to wake him or risk aspiration. The seizures never manifested.
Animal. Vegetable:
On Saturday night we hosted a small dinner party with some friends we hadn't seen for awhile. Michael had spent most of the afternoon in the kitchen making a chicken mole. He made it with toasted sesame and pumpkin seeds, jalapeños and cilantro and served it over rice with warm corn tortillas, sour cream, guacamole and green salsa. Before eating, we sat before the fire talking cracking jokes and talking about, among other things, corn snakes, oscars, goldfish and frozen mice snake treats.
Vegetable:
While I mashed avocados in a bowl between my knees, I looked beyond our guests out the French doors to a glowing early evening garden, glistening with new rain and splashed with bunches of color from magnolias, amelanchiers, early-blooming rhododendrons, tulips and the crimson of young peony shoots.
Mineral:
As sparkling water and wine poured freely at the dinner table, upstairs our sweet Calvin slept like a stone.
Your garden is beautiful. My prayers answered.. you had a nice social weekend. Sounds delicious and fun! Love, us
ReplyDeleteI hope you had time on the way home Friday to get some of those chocolate mints from Local Market.
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