There are a few components to this dessert, but you'll find the result is well worth the effort: chewy hazelnut meringue, dark chocolate and coffee ganache and soft, roasted cherries.
Based on black-eyed peas in the Spanish style, the potent mix included soft roasted root vegetables, lardons of pork belly, chunks of tender lamb and a hunk of meltingly delicious morcilla sausage (black pudding).
Let cool a bit, then slice off the top third of the garlic and squeeze out the soft roasted garlic inside.
Try just a few grains of fleur de sel on some meltingly soft roasted bone marrow or sprinkled on salad or pa^te (it's especially powerful on foie gras).
(Brush with olive oil, season with salt and grill until charred and soft or roast in a 350-degree oven; peel to tender part, then serve).. Yield: About 2 cups sauce.
Entrees include fresh handkerchief pasta with baby artichokes, wild mushrooms and ricotta salata; wood-oven-roasted whole fish with roasted baby zucchini, grilled fennel and red onion; and braised beef short ribs with soft polenta, roasted shallots and baby turnips.
It is, I would say, as good as the L'Ami Louis version, plus it comes with a sizeable lobe of soft-centred roast foie gras and a chunky fried crouton with which to mop up the rich, garlicky juices.
Our favorite main course was soft, tender pot roast layered with fresh pasta sheets.
A dense, oniony meatloaf ($15), with a coarse rustic tomato sauce, accompanied by good garlic mashed potatoes and moist spinach; and a braised mountain of soft, nostalgic pot roast, swimming in a vegetable-studded horseradish pan gravy, were slide-down-the-throat treats.
A bite or two here will make you forget any disappointments elsewhere in the Kingdom of Roy: a peppery snapper fillet with green beans, Japanese eggplant and savory sticky rice, perhaps, or a soft, moist pot roast of pork with a ginger sauce, colorfully arrayed on the plate with carrots and broccoli.
