Mustard Seed Cafe, 562 N. Main St. Bluffton, will be offering the following features during January.
DINNER:
Red Snapper with Romesco Sauce and black olives over Polenta
Pork Scallopini with smashed red skin potatoes and kale greens
Beef Carbonnade over roasted potatoes
SALAD:
Luxembourg Salad
SOUP:
French Onion Soup
LIGHT PLATE:
Crostini with herbed goat cheese, sauteed herb mushrooms, sun dried tomato pesto
The only thing we can think to do in a situation like this is to bake. But what? With the Duke Ellington Orchestra playing in the background, in my attempt to inspire creativity, we blindly took one of the bread books off the shelf.
Here’s what opened: We’ll call it “Miniature Icon Benne Biscuits.”
Here’s how you get to Point Biscuit from Point A:
Turn oven to 450.
½ cup sesame seeds
2 cups white flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
¼ cup olive oil
¼ cup vegetable oil
¾ cup milk
Do you love English muffins as much as the Icon loves them?
If so read on and you may never need to have store-bought English muffins on your grocery list.
These muffins are a bit tricky to create, but we are certain that after the first skillet comes off the oven top, you’ll figure out the secret to create a perfect one.
Here’s all you need:
4 cups of white flour
1 ½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon sugar
1 tablespoon yeast
1 tablespoon olive oil
Mustard Seed Café, 562 N. Main St., Bluffton, will be offering dinner features in December, in addition to the regular menu. An extensive wine and beer list is available. Call for more information: 567-226-1120.
Dinner:
*Seafood Risotto with littleneck clams, fresh mussels, shrimp & scallops
*Lobster Ravioli with crabmeat cream sauce
*Porchetta with roasted fingerling potatoes, broccolini & mushrooms with sauce
Salad: Poached Pear over spinach & arugula with prosciutto, pecans, parmesan and red raspberry vinaigrette
CRAFT BEER TASTING EVENT
This Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Mustard Seed Café, 562 N. Main Street, Bluffton will be offering a Four-Course Dinner Beer Tasting Event. The all-inclusive dinner features:
Apppetizer:
Beer-Steamed Mussels with Bacon
Weihenstephaner Hefe Weissbier
Salad:
Caesar Salad
La Fin Du Monde Blonde Ale
Entrée:
Chicken Thighs Fra Diavolo over Angel Hair
North Coast Brewing Red Seal Amber Ale
Dessert:
Carrot Cake Cheesecake
Wine and wine cocktails are also available.
Our Thanksgiving dinner invitation list included favorite poets Lewis Carroll and Robert Frost. Neither accepted, but places were set.
Set, just in case of late arrivals.
Hoping for Mister Carroll’s presence, for days prior to Thanksgiving lines from “Oh, oysters come and walk with us… along the briny beach”… chanted frequently around our cheery home.
It didn’t work.
It didn’t work, even though we ordered a fresh pint of the delicacy from The Dough Hook and informed our poet friend of the menu: Oyster Stew.
The only sign of Mister Frost on Thanksgiving morn was a dusty residue of white stuff on the lawn.
