Spent the first part of the day running around collecting ingredients for party food/cocktails, and I've spent the latter part of the day creating tasty concoctions out of said ingredients. The margarita recipe we found is a winner, for sure, and Brad pronounced the Sazerac as "really good." Me, I took a sip and almost gagged. Not a whiskey girl. At. All. Although I found the vanilla bourbon pecan ice cream I made earlier this afternoon unexpectedly delicious. I also made two different puff pastry apps, and sometime after we make dinner, we'll take a stab at salted caramel martinis. It's been a pretty fun day.
One of the places I went on my errand trip was Heartland Market over in St. Paul. I've eaten at the new Heartland since Lenny moved it, but the market had closed by the time we finished dinner, so today was my first visit. Lord help me, it won't be my last. There were so many, many tasty treats to choose from. I barely even looked at everything in their meat/cheese case. And if I didn't have lunch waiting for me at home, you can bet I would've ordered one of their sandwiches. The banh mi sounded awesome, and I'm a sucker for a banh mi. I debated over the homemade catsup and chutneys and mustard, and I walked around the vegetable tables twice (SO nice to see everything was locally produced!), but in the end, I didn't buy that much - wild boar chorizo (went into one of the apps), duck fat, butter, garlic, a tiny slice of luxuriously silky chicken liver pate, and a chocolate chip cookie for the teen. I wish I lived a little closer - it's definitely a haul to get over there, but I badly, badly want it to succeed, so I'll be making that trip again and again. And highly recommending it to everyone I know. So go.
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