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C is for...cooking
Friday, 24 March 2006
update: Venus & Epicurious Garden
Venus

I went for brunch w/ Chanda & Aaron & I got the 2x2x2 which was 2 flapjacks or french toast, 2 eggs, 2 meat of choice. I got flapjacks (added blueberries) & scrambled eggs & their housemade country sausage.

The flapjacks were awesome. I could crave those. They were wheaty but not too textured. They were also huge! I couldn't eat everything. The scrambled eggs were a bit runny for me & I remember liking La Note's better. The country sausage was yummy, but I couldn't finish that either.

I stole some of Chanda's home fries which were perfectly crispy (but she said it was inconsistent) & Aaron's strawberry riccotta flapjacks w/ candied almonds & special almond syrup I think it was. His were sweeter than mine, but they were so fluffy & lightly sweet I kinda wish I had those!

Overall impression was good, but I felt like we weren't getting as much attention from the waitress as we should've.


Epicurious Garden

I got a chicken socca from Socca Oven. It took a while, but that's because it was made to order. It was more like a pizza than I expected. The toppings were piled on! It was all white meat chicken flavored w/ lemon piled on to a thin chickpea flour pancake w/ roasted tomatoes. & it was drizzled w/ a red sauce & came with a little container of olive oil that was really yummy (Erick dipped his soup bread in it). I really liked the socca cuz it was reminiscent of cornbread & the thicker parts of a masala dosa or uttapam. (~$7)

Erick got butternut squash & pear soup w/ croutons. I had a crouton dipped in his soup. The soup was more granular than he expected, but he thinks it was because of the pear & last time he had the soup it was finished w/ cream. The crouton was perfectly crispy & flavorful. (~$6, $.50 for croutons)

We tasted the sample at Allegio which was a chocolate covered peppercorn. Needless to say we were surprised because we just thought it was little chocolate balls. The flavor was sweeter and more subtle than I would've thought. It almost tasted like a passion fruit seed.

We ended the meal w/ small of apricot chardonnay & blackberry cabernet gelato ($3.75). The carbernet was pretty winey, but as I told Erick, it got less & less alcoholic tasting & the chardonnay one just tasted like apricot. It was tasty (but more melty & icy than say naia's). I also tried the blood orange which was too icy for my taste. They had a chocolate guiness & fromage blanc, which I want to try next time.

Posted by blog/c_is_for at 2:01 AM EST
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