My friend, Leigh, and I had a wonderful dinner - and catch-up session - at
Casellula Cheese & Wine Cafe. Since Casellula features quite a nice selection of cheeses, we let their
fromageur, Tia, make a few selections to start off us, and she also selected a nice quartet of cheeses that ended up serving as an
intermezzo between our entreés and desserts. I took pictures of the cheeses, but didn't get a chance to any notes. However, they were all quite wonderful. -And the little bits of food that were paired with each cheese were also quite nice too. The lavender panna cotta was particularly outstanding.
As for the entrées, I had the "Pig's Ass" sandwich, and Leigh had the Rabbit Pie. And the desserts... WOW! We had just planned to split a piece of their Chocolate Cake, but then Tia brought over their "Ice Cream Soda" which was made with melon balls, small scoops of vanilla ice cream, and elderflower(!) soda. It was like Summer in a glass! But back to the Chocolate Cake...
On the menu, the cake was paired with "Meadowbrook Farm Cream". Well, when the cake was brought to the table, the waitress also brought along a small bottle of cream, heavy cream. After she set the plate of cake of the table, she then poured the cream over the slice of cake... As I said before... WOW!!
