After purchasing my first MacBook Pro last week, I have been toying around with iMovie. I took an incredible amount of video during my trip to Colombia. Here is a video of our trip to Playa Koralia, a "nature resort" about thirty minutes from Santa Marta.
In the past week and a half I have been in six different time zones and boarded twelve planes. Travel-weary, it goes without saying that I was not exactly looking forward to spending an entire evening out in the French Quarter of New Orleans, where I found myself with my colleague, taking several clients out to dinner. After being given several choices of New Orleans' top restaurants, we had decided on giving Bayona a try as it was founded by famous woman chef Susan Spicer. Since we were all in N'awlins for a women's conference, we figured we'd stick with the theme.
All ten of us piled out of our taxi van onto rainy Dauphine street. As soon as we stepped into the classically-furnished Creole house and my nose got a whiff of the smells wafting from the kitchen, my exhausted eyes perked up- I knew we were in for a treat. We were escorted upstairs to the small private dining room which I figured, about 100 years ago, served either as a master bedroom or a large attic. The white wood paneling instantly made me feel as if I was eating a cozy dinner at home. One look at the menu and I was in heaven.
In between our lively conversation centering around women in finance, the Los Angeles food scene, and the benefits of social media, our group ordered virtually half of the menu. On the left side of the menu were the classic dishes which had been served at Bayona from its infancy. On the right were the choices that changed daily. Most of us ordered from the left side...
For starters we tried the Crispy Smoked Quail Salad with pears and bourbon molasses dressing, the Crawfish Empanadas, the signature Cream of Garlic Soup and the Veal Sweetbreads with lemon caper butter. The quail salad was a crowd pleaser. The crawfish empanadas had a unique taste to them and the empanada crust was done well. My hands-down favorite were the sweetbreads. Perfectly seasoned, perfectly cooked, melted in your mouth. My friend from Michigan, not even knowing what "sweetbreads" were, marveled at the taste...until I told her what they were.
The two winning entrees were the Peppered Lamb Loin with Goat Cheese and Zinfandel Sauce & the Redfish. Both are pictured below. Unfortunately, because the Redfish was on the right side of the menu and I failed to take down its' accompaniments, the picture will have to do.
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