Last night we hosted a little dinner party for CBGB and the Kelly Gang. Good fun and great company all around, but I was so impressed with the meal Nellie whipped up that I had to record it here for posterity. We tried hard to make it a very Ontario-based meal, and with only a few exceptions, we managed that.
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Drinks
Wine (Fielding 2009 White Conception, Union Red)
Beer (Great Lakes Devil’s Pale Ale, Creemore urBock, Hockley Valley Dark)
Ice wine martinis (Grey Goose vodka, Lakeview Cellars vidal icewine)
Hors D’Oeuvres
La Quercia prosciutto
Crostini with chevre, honey and cracked pepper
Appetizer
Curried butternut squash soup with toasted coconut, scallions, cashews and pakoras
Daniel Lenko 2007 Old Vines Chardonnay
Hidden Bench 2007 Fumé Blanc
Main
Cumbrae’s pork loin stuffed with apple & caramelized onion
Sea-salt roasted potatoes, green beans and fennel
Norman Hardie 2008 County Pinot Noir
Norman Hardie 2008 Unfiltered Pinot Noir
Dessert
Ewenity sheep’s milk cheese: Beemster, Ermite, Parmesan and Brebette, served with honey, balsamic, red pepper jelly and apple cinnamon chardonnay jelly
Green & Black’s organic dark chocolate
Raincoast crisps
Daniel Lenko 2002 Vidal Icewine
Macallan 15-year-old Fine Oak aged single malt whisky
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And now…we clean up.
Skirl | Dan Dickinson 
[…] We explored a few new local restaurants like Origin (twice) and Duggan’s (many, many times) and ate an utterly decadent meal at MoRoCo in our first venture past the truffle bar out front. Most of our new restaurants discoveries came during our travels, and I’d need all day to list them all. Really, the biggest change this year might have been Nellie’s emerging talent in the kitchen, preparing incredible meals for Valentine’s Day (as is her custom) or various dinner parties. […]