Mako's birthday (2019)

Dinner Menu

Picture of the sandwich we are trying to replicate

• Flammkueche
• Rocket, fig, slipcote, and ajo blanco salad — A Salad from the Duke of Cambridge in London
• Cream of Chantrelle soup
• Killer BLAT --- A vegan bacon, lettuce, avocado, and tomato sandwich built around a buffalo fried chicken seitan patty from the Butcher's Son vegan deli in Berkeley.

The results can be seen here

Drink Menu

Marquee Cocktail

• 1 1⁄2 oz Gin, Martin Miller's
• 3⁄4 oz Aperol
• 3⁄4 oz Lemon juice
• 1⁄4 oz Simple syrup
• 2 lf Sage
• 1 pn Salt

Instructions: Shake all ingredients with cracked ice until very cold, and strain into a chilled cocktail glass and garnish with a sage leaf.

Spanish Shawl

• 1 1⁄2 oz Gin
• 3⁄4 oz Elderflower liqueur, St. Germain
• 3⁄4 oz Cucumber juice
• 1⁄2 oz Dry vermouth, Dolin
• 1⁄4 oz Lime juice

Instructions: Shake, strain, up w/ cucumber wheel garnish

House Call

• 3⁄4 oz Sloe gin
• 3⁄4 oz Apple brandy, Lairds
• 3⁄4 oz Bénédictine
• 3⁄4 oz Lemon juice

Instructions: shake, strain, up, w/ lemon twist

Eulogy

• 3⁄4 oz Batavia Arrack, Van Oosten
• 3⁄4 oz Falernum, Velvet Falernum
• 3⁄4 oz Strega
• 3⁄4 oz Lime juice

Instructions: Shake, strain over ice, garnish with a lime wheel

Shopping List

Liquor Store

• Batavia-Arrack

Supermarket

Produce:

• Lemons (many) [cocktails]
• Limes (many) [cocktails]
• Sage [cocktails]
• Cucumbers (3-4) [cocktails]
• Tomato [BLAT]
• Romaine [BLAT]
• Ripe avocado [BLAT]
• Chanterelles [Soup]
• Figs [Salad]
• Garlic [Salad]
• Rocket [Salad]

Other supermarket stuff:

• Better-than-Boullion No Chicken [Soup]
• Heavy cream [Soup]
• Blanched almonds [Salad; Ajo Blanco]
• Slipcote (or similar soft sheep/goat cheese that's not too strong/funky "light, creamy, fluffy texture and a slightly sharp refreshing flavour"; plain chevre is a good substitute) [Salad]
• one of the following (in order of preference): (1) fromage blanc and crème fraîche; (2) second best: quark; (3) third best: equal parts cream cheese and buttermilk [flammekueche]

Meats:

• Thin steaks of chicken seitan [BLAT]
• veggie ham [lardon for flammekueche]
• pork belly [thick bacon for BLAT]

Macrina:

• Fresh loaf of bread (rectangular, white, and semi-dense crumb)