Word: salad
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...creating unsightly wet patches in the crisp white paper tablecloth. Snoot is hard-sought at Alloro, however--the waiter seemed thrilled at our animalistic enjoyment of the food. A third appetizer seemed impossible to pass up. The only glaringly untraditional dish on the menu, the grilled shrimp on fennel salad is the last vestige of Alloro's former image. Four enormous shrimp are chargrilled and split open on top of a healthy portion of shredded fennel, red cabbage, and black olives. Lightly dressed in vinaigrette, the salad tops a circular "pancake" of ground garbanzo beans. The pancake is strangely savory...
...relish, and the inevitable nods to yuppies everywhere: mesclun greens with vinaigrette and portabella mushrooms roasted with goat cheese and walnut stuffing. Gourmandized Southern has never been so tasty, sopped up with the coarse, hot, freshly-baked cornbread muffins. Other appetizers include an elegant, but not especially interesting, mesclun salad, and a side order of Hoppin Shavonne: smooth fluffy cheese grits and black-eyed peas cooked with fresh tomatoes and onions. Complementing the appetizers is a selection from the broad range of microbrews--Jefferson Davis, groan in your grave--called Turbo Dog. The evening was looking...
...underground oven called an imu. I assume that the organizers couldn't pull off the red-hot stones in the frozen MIT ground, but the pig tasted delicious nonetheless. Soon after my arrival there was the inevitable rush to the serving table, replete with the typical luau spread: somen salad, lomi lomi salmon, sushi, kalua pig and cabbage, teriyaki beef, chicken long rice, dimsum, rice, haupia, coconut cake, and chi chi dango. Kama'aina (island locals) were disappointed to find that pudding-like poi was not shipped in, but otherwise the food was a success. People not familiar with...
...same is true of the other entree, though the name alone is as much a mouthful as the end product. The grandiose "Rosemary and Black Tea Smoked Lamb Loin with a Spicy Eggplant Salad and a Roast Garlic Vereniki" ($19.50), gives little indication as to what the dish will actually taste like. Smoking the lamb is an unlikely method of preparation, but it works well--especially with the vague resonances of black tea, and the eggplant salad has a surprising tartness and spice which keeps the smoked meat from becoming monotonous...
...Actually last year I figured out how to make something that tastes just like Mexican fried ice cream. It's very simple: you take vanilla fro-yo and cover it with Just Right cereal. And this year I've gotten far bolder. After the salad bar thing worked out, I spent some time experimenting with sushi...