Saturday May 24
This afternoon, we joined our friend Kathy at nearby Burnet Woods for a picnic and performance by the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company. It is not often that you get to drink wine and munch sandwiches, cherry tomatoes, carrots, grapes, and Kathy's tasty chocolate gem cupcakes made with puréed dates, as you watch a fine Julius Caesar, staged very cleverly in an open-air bandshell, with guest cameo by a prominent local hummingbird.
We mention this because the leftover sandwiches, cut into quarters, also served as pre-dinner appetizers. They were made of Holtbread, of course, and the fillings came from Findlay Market: chicken salad from Mike's Meats (unfortunately, not our favorite smoked chicken salad, which they've stopped making for some reason, but just the regular); and delicious salmon lightly-smoked right there - the guy who makes it has been giving out samples, and we were sold on first taste.
The roast beef made a suitably bloody main course, done as here, richly crusted o'er with thyme, pepper, and salt.
Despite the fact that it's spring, we roasted the vegetables in the pan: tiny redskin potatoes, shallots, carrots, and parsnips.
We bathed our tongues, not our hands, in the bloody gravy, which was just as well.
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