Friday, November 20, 2009

Beginning my menu for future restaurant: Sides


Good ole' Sides restaurant. You're patient. You're ready to be born but I keep putting you off. Mainly because I don't have a dream city picked out or $100,000 lying around. But I will. I WILL, NAYSAYERS!

So once Sides is all decorated with his Georgia pine wood floors, crispy linen curtains, sweet tea in Mason jars, Wednesday turkey meatloaf day, herb garden out back, farm eggs, George Jones playin' in the background...what else ya gonna eat?

How about...

French picnic
Baked brie with pistachios and cranberry, served with Melba toast

Just Beet it
Roasted beets with goat cheese and sugared walnuts with baby spinach and Raspberry-Thyme Vinaigrette

Tybee Island's soup
Creamed corn and King Crab chowder served with cheddar biscuits (yes, that kind)

Southern Decadence
Shrimp and grits in a buttery-Gruyere sauce with peppered bacon

"Shrimp on a Stick"
bacon-wrapped shrimp fried up in a corn dog and put on stick

"Mighty Chili Out poppers"
Bite size cheddar cornbread with green chile chili baked inside

Big Daddy's Bourbon-laced Sweet Taters.
Whipped sweet potatoes spiked with bourbon and sprinkled with brown sugar walnuts

Hippie Aunt
Veggie burger on cracked wheat bread and housemade basil mayonaise

Big Daddy's Heart Attack
Kobe beef and foie gras burger with fried egg, Wisconsin cheddar, and spicy mustard

Dessert:
Sweet potato semifreddo with brown sugar butter warm sauce

Housemade Mexican vanilla ice cream with chipotle cranberry sauce

**the receipt always comes with little pralines for everyone at the table

2 comments:

Eclipse75048 said...

That roasted beet recipe sounds like something I'd sell my dog for. Do you really have one?

Lindsey Reynolds said...

I kind of made it up...it's pretty easy though. Just rub your beets with some herbs and olive oil, cover them in foil, and bake them the oven for 1.5 hours at 350 degrees.

Take 'em out, peel them when they've cooled off, chop 'em up and throw in some pungent cheese. Sugared walnuts are just buttered, sprinkled with sugar, and broiled very quickly.

Thanks for liking my made-up recipe!