NEW52-Week 7, Persnickety Prints and Mavro

For this week, I really wanted to try Persnickety Prints for my 8x8 pages.  I've heard really good reviews about them + they were having a sale.  What a perfect time to try out their services!  Typically, I print out my pages at Costco for $1.49 (glossy only).  I can then pick it up in an hour.  Persnickety Prints were having a sale of $.89 per print + free shipping (regularly $5).  So how did they come out?  Gorgeous!!  I loved the matte paper and didn't have to trim the pages to fit into my page protectors.  I printed out 25 pages for $22.25.  If I had ordered them from Costco, then I would have paid $35.76 + tax.  This was an overall saving of $13.51.  So would I order from them again, YES but probably only when they are having a free shipping sale.

For a belated Valentine's dinner, Tate took me to Chef Mavro.  How do you describe his cuisine?  A bit of contemporary Hawaiian mixed with his contemporary French.  The sauces were rich yet very delicate.  The food perfectly cooked.  The little bits of attention to detail will drive me back here again.  Every seasonal dish has a wine pairing, if you choose to partake.  When I stop being a cow, I will gladly try it with all the pairings.  

Here is my menu.  (sorry forgot my camera, no photos to share).

four courses

MARINATED BIGEYE AHI

picholine olive tapenade, quail egg-sauce verte, espelette

DOMAINE DE L’HERMITAGE, 2009 BANDOL ROSÉ

“strawberry, raspberry, mineral, herbaceous”

DAY BOAT CATCH BOURRIDE “MODERNE”

medallion poached in bourride, leek and onion étuvée, aïoli sabayon
sea asparagus tempura

DOMAINE LAROCHE, 2006 CHABLIS, SAINT MARTIN

“lemon, lime, mineral, beeswax, and toast”

KUROBUTA PORK

loin roasted with a shallot & szechuan peppercorn crust, bacon wrapped shank

mustard cabbage, black garlic sauce

FINCA CORONADO, 2004 LA MANCHA, SPAI

“ripe berries, violets, rose, vanilla”
or
our sommelier rare wine selection,
DOMAINE DUPONT TISSERANDOT, 2004 GEVREY CHAMBERTIN“dark berries, plum, spice, iron, vanilla”
(add 9.50)

LILIKOI MALASADAS

guava coulis, pineapple-coconut ice cream

BLANDY’S, MALMSEY MADEIRA, 5 YEAR

“spicy, pear, happy to find his friend from portugal”

85.00
wine pairings 55.00

George Mavrothalassitis chef proprietor
Kevin Chong chef de cuisine	Wai Kit "Perry" Ho pastry chef	Todd Ashline director /sommelier

Tate decided to swap out his ahi in exchange for this, 

TRUFFLE POACHED EGG “OSMOSE”

peterson’s upland farm egg served with a potato mousseline
serrano ham ribbons

DOMAINE ZIND HUMBRECHT, 2008 PINOT BLANC, ALSACE

“apricot, orange, lemon, dry & crisp”

(photo courtesy of Chef Marvo's blog)

So that was my two NEW adventures for the week.  I'm working on getting my week8 things ready, hint hint, it involves a video.  I can't wait to share this one with you.  

For now, just a few NEW layouts.  These two were for challenges at Design House Digital. 

This morning, I got a nice surprise when I learned that this layout was the Layout of the Week at DHD.

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I'll be back in a bit with the video.