When I went to post yesterday's entry, it appeared that Google had the cyber- hiccups again and nothing was happening. I kept checking, but nothing was going through, so as we left for dinner I was afraid all was lost. Much to my relief this morning, I see that the post did go through, complete with the many typos I didn't catch. Oh well ...
For Grownups' Night Out, we went to a lovely little restaurant up on one of the highest hills in Jyväskylä ... the view was spectacular, and the food was outstanding. I had the snails in parmesan garlic butter sauce for appetizer (always a favorite of mine) and the fillet of reindeer for entree. Reindeer is farm raised (free range) here in Finland and is a very popular red meat. This was delicious ... medium rare, fork tender ... with a ligonberry sauce. For dessert I had a wedge of frozen rhubard parfait very artfully plated with fresh rhubard sauce, a dollop of creme fraiche with chocolate wafer. I had a chilled vodka (Finlandia, of course!) before dinner and then Steve and I had a six-grape Port before dessert. Very, very nice.
I'm cooking again today ... lamb. We got a nice piece of boneless leg roast yesterday at the supermarket (think Walmart Superstore only with entire aisles of fish products ... fresh, frozen, pickled). We have some potato casserole leftover from the other night, and B has a fresh rutabaga in the fridge, so I'm pretty well covered.
And it's raining today, which means a good day to stay in the house and cook.
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