dinner and a movie -- family-style dinner at Big Bear Cafe - Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012

Hello Hello!

For our family dinner this Sunday, January 1st, we will be serving a spaghetti carbonara followed by pork shoulder braised in white wine, garlic and rosemary, served with an endive/escarole salad with grainy mustard vinaigrette.

The dinner will accompany the screening of a short film about pork butchery in the United States, and the work of a small family meatsmith outside of Seattle, WA where our resident chef on research leave, Andrew Plotsky, is now in training.

It is a beautiful film. Clementina is preparing a beautiful meal.

We hope you can come to celebrate the first evening of the new year.

Contact me to reserve a seat.

It is a family-style communal dinner with limited seats, so let me know asap.

Stuart
studavenport @ gmail.com

Big Bear Cafe dinner menus for tonight, tomorrow night

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Below is Clementina's dinner menu for the next couple of days at the Big Bear Cafe.
You can see more of what is available at our website at bigbearcafe-dc.com .

Thanks!

Dinner Menu October 12th, 13th

Wednesday, Oct. 12th
I. Pul' n' Vin': Chicken and wine stew with long grain rice. Bitter greens salad with fennel and orange, balsamic vinaigrette. $14
II. Potato and mushroom croquettes with butter and wine-braised Hakurei turnips and sauteed tat soi. $12

Thursday, Oct. 13th
I. Pan fried cod in white wine sauce with potatoes, sauteed kale with yellow eye beans. $12
II. Butternut squash soup, you don't even know. Salad of Napa cabbage, spinach, and apples with white balsamic vinaigrette. $10

Dessert: caramel buttercreamdream cake.

Clementina Russo's dinner menus for this week at Big Bear Cafe

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Monday - 10/03/2011

I. Pork shoulder braised in apple cider with apples, red onions and potatoes. Turnips and turnip greens braised in butter and white wine. $13
II. Peasant's Purse: sauteed Swiss chard with an egg over easy and crumbled feta, served with rustic Italian bread. $11

Tuesday - 10/04/2011
I. Lamb chops in red wine jus. Marinated kale salad. $14
II. Fried eggplant and sweet pepper stew atop Israeli couscous, dollop of black pepper ricotta. $12

HoboHumpdayWednesday - 10/05/2011
I. Soup! Winter squash soup with savoy cabbage and Borlotti beans. $12
II. Salad! Curly and Belgian endive, with shallots, toasted walnuts, poached egg, mustard vinaigrette. $10
Rustic Italian bread and Cowgirl Creamery cheese for both menus.

Thursday, with a Bang - 10/06/2011
I. Seared blue marlin steaks with olive oil and lemon juice, sauteed kale. $12
II. Pasta agghiu ogghiu. Leafy green salad with lemon dressing. $10

dinner menus for Big Bear Cafe 09/19 -09/22/2011

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9/19 Market Fresh Monday - Eggs and Greens, 2 Ways.

I. Stewed white Russian kale with onions, egg over easy. Pan-fried red sweet potatoes. $10
II. Butternut squash and ricotta frittata. Belgian endive, fennel, apple, and celeriac salad with whole grain mustard vinaigrette. $12

Early apple tart.

9/20 Tuesday

I. Eggplant, sweet pepper, and tomato stew under a poached egg. Pan-fried carnival squash. $11
II. Pork chops with brown butter and sage. Sauteed rainbow chard. $12

Baked apples with maple syrup, walnuts, and raisins.

9/21 Wednesday

I. Soup and salad - summer into fall sweet vegetables soup with bitter greens salad. $12
II. Tacchino (turkey) Marsala. Braised escarole with whole garlic, rosemary potatoes. $16

Dessert to be determined

9/22 Eve of the Equinox Thursday

I. End of Summer: Zucchini and cuccuzze (yellow squash) in salmoriglio (a condiment sauce of olive oil, lemon juice, oregano and parsley). Spinach, mozzarella and cherry tomato salad. $9
II. Into Fall: Sguazeto - Friulian lamb stew, served with polenta and sauteed broccoli with currants and pine nuts. $16

Dessert to be determined