We've been here at the Glimmerglass Festival for
several days, but this year we enjoyed the superb Glimmerglass Patron
events in the house catered by the excellent Horned Dorset Primavera.
Last
night was our first night "out" and we returned to the casual, yet
excellent, Blue Mingo right on the lake, where Samuel immediately
befriended a mother duck and her six ducklings, whom he later managed to
sneak some oyster crackers to!
The Cosmos here are yummy and
even with the tiniest martini glasses ever, but at least you get a small
carafe with multiple refills.
The Chateau Routoas Rose was dry and crisp and excellent with the may starters we decided to share.
Golden
Potstickers with chicken, lemongrass & soy broth were crispy and
tasty and Sam insisted on having his own whole bowl of six, not to
mention stealing one from the other order!
Moody Blues are the
best sliced and baked potatoes slathered with blue cheese, green onion
and the most yummy balsamic reduction.
Pork Belly Lollipops
are divine --crispy and tasty skewered on a slab of fresh pineapple with
golden pineapple salsa, magnificent mango sambal (not too spicy) and
roasted red pepper jam. These new creations win the starter prize for
sure.
Coconut Shrimp are also tasty and crisp.
Sam
ordered the 14 oz. NY strip steak but was already full, so this is
going home for eating later as it was a tasty piece with a five cheese
sauce, potato lunette (a huge duchesse style slab of layered potato,
cream and crispy top), stewed zucchini and chimichurri drizzle.
We
moved on to a wonderful Laboure-Roi Vallon d'Or Pouilly Fuisse which
was perfect with the excellent Soft Shell Crabs that 3 of us had. There
were three smallish but tasty crabs from Maryland with a pesto sauce and
a large fontina cheese tuile filled with a cold lemon and parsley pasta
salad with balsamic syrup. I've missed these treats.
The
chef here is Asian and offers up a super Penang Curry with chicken,
shrimp, meat or vegetarian and one of our guests loved the latter. The
Osso Buco had to be the size of a trailer truck and left plenty to take
home was well.
Desserts were okay and nice, but no major home runs:
Coconut Pound Cake (with or without raspberry sauce)
Carrot Cake
Peanut Butter Fudge Chocolate Cake
Key Lime Custard and
my Mango Mud Pie with Oreo Crust and Toffee Ice Cream seemed to be missing much of the toffee crunch.
Our
server Nathan seemed to be new and wasn't there to pour the wine as
often as we would have liked, but he was super sweet with Sam as he
teaches 6th grade, which is where Sam heads in just over a month.
A wonderful night of fun and food with friends is always a treat.
