Help me, Piglet!

[adelagia]

Some months ago, sarea_okelani and I decided that we were going to start a series of YOLO dinners (within reason). Last month we did Tom Douglas's Dumpling Fest (various stations of dumpling samples from all sorts of local chefs/restaurants) and this past weekend, we went to Staple & Fancy for their tasting menu at $55/person -- 4 courses of appetizers, pasta, protein, and dessert.

It was a lot like Toro Bravo all over again (that time we went to Portland and broke our stomachs); clearly we are not good at remembering lessons we learned -- but at least this time we could take our leftovers home instead of being forced to stuff ourselves up to our eyeballs.

The appetizer course was actually seven appetizers -- prosciutto, seared tuna, fried oysters, salad, mozzarella cheese/grilled pear, English pea soup, and steak tartare, at the end of which I was already full enough. We got a clam risotto for the pasta course, which neither of us liked, as the risotto was rather undercooked. Our server came to ask us how it was, and when she heard we weren't huge fans of it, immediately offered to bring something else even though we'd already ate more than half of it. So then we got another pasta course -- this time conchiglie in tomato sauce (Sarea said it felt like they were giving us a "kid's pasta" because we couldn't handle the risotto), which was pretty good (and better the next day). Then we got a thing of pork with curious-looking mushrooms (yours truly totes not paying attention to the guy who explained what the dish was), and finally, a passionfruit panna cotta for dessert. SO FULL.

The next YOLO dinner plan is to get a cake from Midori Bakery and eat that, lol. Their smallest size of cake is I think $45, and we've been eyeing their passionfruit/raspberry/coconut one for forever. Mmm, cake.

In other recollections, as I have obviously not been good about keeping a record of things I've been up to, accordingtomel came to visit a few weeks ago, during the first weekend of March. We attended the Emerald City Comic-con on the Friday and Saturday, though this year I wasn't feeling too enthused about the overall offering of guests/panels. The ones we did attend were a panel with the cast of Animaniacs, Twisted Toonz: Return of the Jedi (voice actors read out scenes from the movie in different voices), and Millie Bobby Brown from Stranger Things.

The absolute best one was Twisted Toonz, which hadn't even been on our radar prior to Friday because on the online schedule it didn't list who was even going to be there, but it turned out to be four of the Animaniacs cast (Tress Macneille, Jess Harnell, Rob Paulsen, and Maurice Lamarche), Jim Cummings, and Troy Baker. It was hysterical hearing lines from Star Wars read out in the voices of characters from cartoons and pop culture, like Animaniacs, Mom and Hedonism Bot from Futurama, Carl from Jimmy Neutron, Aaron Neville, Tigger, Darkwing Duck, the crazy cat lady from The Simpsons, Alan Rickman, Richard Pryor, Jeff Goldblum... Oh man, there were so many and they were all awesome. But the one that stuck with me the most was Winnie the Pooh (Jim Cummings) -- oh my god, there is something downright magical about hearing that fussy little voice in real life. It was so sweet, I nearly cried. "Oh, bother." Gah. *clutches heart*

We also did the Prison escape room at Flee Escape with Sarea and slitherhither, which was excellent fun. We were initially divided into two separate jail cells and had to work together to free ourselves from our respective cells. I think we all really enjoyed this one; the puzzles were all pretty logical and it was one of those where, for the most part, you could do things in tandem so it wasn't like if one person was solving something, everybody else had to just stand there and wait around. It was Mel's first time doing an escape room, and after it was over she immediately wanted to do another one. I knew there was a reason we're friends!

Comments

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

That meal sounds over the top delicious.

[adelagia.livejournal.com]

It really was :)))