Here’s the scoop on today’s menu, courtesy Michael’s in-house email (posting internal emails makes the blogging exceptionally easy!):
Pretty much all the drinks stay the same, except we’re 86 Supplication.
Smoked beef ravioli is gone and is replaced with a cold salad of beans, beets, and our house cured chorizo. The idea was brought to us by regular Matthew Rowley, author of the book “Moonshine”. Matt’s a food writer who particularly loves his cured meats (like most of us), so he is always really interested in seeing what we’ve got going on here at the Link. The salad Matt told us about would be made with judiones, which are gigantic Spanish white beans, but we couldn’t find any on short notice, so we used our pinquito beans and fava beans. His salad is at least there in spirit. The beets and beans are cooked and then chilled, and the chorizo is rendered out some to give the entire salald a little more flava.
The fish dish is the same, loro chato, or parrotfish. Loro chato literally means flat parrot in espanol. The fish is so named not because of its bright colors, but because it’s teeth are fused in the front, forming a beak like that of a parrot. If we haven’t cut ‘em all up, I’ll show you one when you get here. Taste-wise, the fish is really flakey and reminds me of sole. Also, posole (in the menu description) is another word for hominy, which is another way of saying “imbibed corn kernels”.
Leg of lamb is gone and replaced with a smoked half chicken from Fulton Valley farms. It’s still served over the succotash, but the sauce is now a whole grain mustard sauce.
Chili is gone and replaced with the lamb mulligatawny. To make it more of an entree, the kitchen folks are going to whip up some house naan bread to served along side.
The steak now comes with the chimichurri sauce, which is an Argentine pesto, and if wikipedia isn’t lying to me, it’s actually named after some Irish guy! How ’bout that? The potatoes on the steak will change tomorrow.
For snag, we’ve got the Carribean jerk Chicken (allspice, onion), Cincinnati (that’s how you spell it), and the Smoked Boerewors. Cincy will be replaced by the Jagdwurst, which is the German hunter’s sausage and tastes like a hot dog.
That’s all, folks!
Michael