Art, Food, and Artful Food

this morning's sketch:

and, no, it's not a radish or even a Japanese eggplant!

It's a purple-hulled green bean....

and I was in a hurry!

note to self: allow plenty of time when sketching!!

I did finish this page however,

and since it's only my third page,

I'm pretty pleased!

We had dinner at one of our new favorite restaurants 

in Midtown on Thursday evening:

The Lawrence.

It is almost directly across the street from our condo -

and we feel lucky about that!

The chef is very adventurous and changes the menu almost daily.

This is the Consomme Gazpacho that C and I shared:

It was so very, very good!

I thick of gazpacho as being a very thick puree,

but as you can see, this was indeed a consommé.

That said, it tasted just like gazpacho.

We researched the recipe and learned that the veggies are pureed

and then strained through several layers of cheesecloth -

a process that takes several hours or overnight.

The small round white things are delicate little mushrooms,

and the larger white clump is crabmeat.

It was so yummy -

I think I could have enjoyed a quart!

This was the beautiful heirloom tomato small plate.

I think the cheese was called Stackhouse.

It was a stinky cheese -

just as we like it! -

and a perfect compliment to the sweet tomatoes.

peace