Food Porn

There isn't really any content in this post, just food porn. Enjoy!

Food pics from Bernaise courtesy of Sireen.  My phone camera was not doing well in the low light.

 Start the meal with bread with soft butter and whole grain mustard.  

A little pot of foie (FWAH! like a kung fu master) gras with toast and cherries.  Not enough toast, good thing we still had bread (see above).

Flat iron steak and frites (FRYTES!) with bernaise sauce.  This was Sireen's dinner. Blurry, but delicious!  All three of us at dinner (a Muslim, a Jew, and a Catholic walk into a steakhouse at 8pm during Ramadan is the beginning of a joke I need to figure out one day) had the flat iron but got different sauces. Sireen got the bernaise, Nikki got the bordelaise, and I got the au poivre.  I think next time I'd get the bordelaise.  Bordelaise is a red wine reduction and I think the sweetness and acidity go very well with the savory hunk of beef and fries.  The fries were fluffy and crisp and very tasty and unlimited!    Bernaise also does poutine and fries with duck confit that I'd like to try next time.

Dessert of ice cream profiteroles and dark chocolate sauce and by then the lights had really dimmed.  The ice cream was sooo smooth and creamy, fitting for a guy who makes awesome milkshakes two doors down. If we weren't so full we would have licked the the chocolate out of the boat.  And the choux was the crispiest I've ever had.  So good.  

On Friday I had dinner with Federica.  We went to Not Your Average Joe's.  I've now switched to a different camera app that does better in low light.  It also records sound for still photos. Weird.

Dangerous watermelon sangria.  I could drink about a million and a half of these.

Founder's Flounder - pan fried flounder on spinach and shaved fennel tossed in a lemon vinaigrette and topped with a tomato, feta, and olive relish.  SO. GOOD.  Definitely not something you usually see on a casual American restaurant menu, but it was so good I would try to make this at home. I don't often eat fennel, but I think this dish has made me a convert.

I apologize if I've made you hungry.


You're right. I'm not sorry.