trust i seek and i find in you

ok.  first things first.  nobody got the last title.  i'll admit, it hasn't been a full day yet but none of you are gonna get it so forget it anyway.  it was from baggy trousers by madness.  one of the greatest ska bands ever, btw.  i think this title is way easier.

anyway, whoo....we gots busy today!  me and the boss didn't think it would be busy cause it rarely is on new years eve plus it was snowing to high hell.  but we were pleasantly surprised, we had a pretty good lunch, were steady all afternoon, and had a damn fine dinner.  it wasn't like, valentines day busy but it was a helluva thursday anyway.  we actually ran a couple of specials...a pecan crusted chicken breast with a fucking amazing huckleberry cabernet sauce, and a 10 oz sirloin with bleu cheese and balsamic reduction (also fucking amazing). both are things we've ran before (we do the chicken two or three times a year) and both are things that i just get better at making the more i do it.  i thought i had perfected the hucklecab sauce but i guess i was wrong, cause...damn.  it was gooood.  for those of you who don't know a huckleberry is kinda like a tart, plump, purple blueberry.  they grow like crazy in montana, and thanks to my mommy in law i get freshies every summer.  i dunno where else they grow but i do know that they can't be domesticated.  hmm.

anyway, i take a bunch of cabernet savignion (is that right?  lets just say cab) and a bunch of huckleberries, lemon zest and juice, onion, garlic, sugar, and salt n pepper and boil the crap out of it until it reduces, then i blitz it in the choppy chop, and then i add a few whole berries back in so you can see em.  it's super good, and the breading we (blitzed up pecans and cereal---won't say which one) use goes well with it.

so yeah, it was nice.  i like being busy.  and it was kind of a mad dash to get it all ready by dinnertime, cause we had a lot of prep and i was steady the whole time.  but jenney knocked out most of the prep and i made the hucklecab sauce and the balsamic reduction (which i reducted for like an hour with honey and garlic...mmm!) and the breading plus i knocked out a bunch of tickets at the same time.  also i burned my finger right off the bat trying to fix the gas flow to the broiler.

all in all a pretty good day.