Monday, March 28, 2011

Primo's : Sunday

Ok, ok. Yes, it's a stunning double hotel resort and the golf course is lovely and there's a great spa and three different pools and a lazy river and the rooms are posh enough to feel pampered but not overly done or wastefull feeling but...

When D was told his office was sending him to a big tech conference in Orlando, I spent the next month running around in circles with glee. Not because of any of those previouslly mentioned perks, because ya know, we don't play golf and the pool is iffy with this stormy time of year and fiddle players who garden have no use for manicures at all.

Primo's.

Primo's is my favourite resteraunt in the world, and for a week that's where I get to eat every night. This is where I wanna write all of these incredible descriptions of the place, but I ain't a good enough writer to make y'all understand even a tiny bit of why it's the best. This is my best attempt at it, so bear with me please.

First off, understand that I ain't anybody worth noticing really. It's a decently fancy resteraunt, and when I get to eat there I'm in sundresses from Target and have frizzy hair streaked with silvery bits and cut to the quick nails with farmer's cuticles. I spill peas from my fork, get embaressingly enthusiastic about what we're eating, and gawk like a hillbilly in a fancy bathroom the whole time. Actually, the bathroom in our hotelroom is really fancy, and it reminds me of my cousin Teresa who used to rate the bathrooms as a kid when we'd all go out anywhere, but that's another story and I ain't seen her for a while but she can probably still throw a pretty good punch so I ain't elaborating on that story right now. Quick summary, Primo's ain't gonna make the cover of anything by spoiling me, but...

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They make me feel like visiting royalty every time. They're the friendliest, nicest folk and make you feel like regulars the first day you're there. Back in August, I ate there by myself when D ws taking his momma up to see some folks in South Carolina, and they pampered me so much they even sent me on with a complimentary box of assorted little truffles and cookies and a cook book by the owner chef! For the next few days, I wanna blog about how each evening went so y'all can share in some of the fun. Please forgive the pictures, it's kinda low light for no flash but I don't like using the flash when people are eating. They were so nice to let me take pictures.

Bread starts off the meal, and when shouldn't it? This is the best bread I've ever eaten, it's a roasted garlic focccio and the garlic cloves are on top with the herbs and they're so sweet and mild and delicious. The bread is moist and light as anything, and when I realized I forgot to take some with me back up to the room last night I about sobbed. 

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There should be a cute little round bite here, they always offer you a one bite little yum of whatever they feel like playing with that day, and it was round and kinda like a mini hushpuppy with corn in it could've been? Bacon? A few seconds after I popped it in my mouth and let out a tiny little piglet grunt of pleasure, I realized I was taking pics and forgot to. Pretend there's one here.

The big appetizer was quail! This picture is a bit uglier than the others, but promptly after I took this one D accidentally knocked the blossom off into the creamy sauce and it didn't look as polished then so this is what y'all get. These are two little quail legs perched up on a fried green 'mater and some black eyed peas with a great sauce. If any of y'all wanna know why I wanna raise quail, try this!

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D wanted some salmon, he's a fiend for it back at the house and he picked :

"Cedar Planked Scottish Salmon sunchoke and parsnip puree, crisp mustard spaetzle with sauteed lady apples, petite greens; maple glazed bacon and crisp apple chips"


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There was so much on the menu that I wanted, but I decided to try :

"Pan Roasted Local Red Snapper leeks carbonara, fresh peas, favas, and preserved lemon... parsnip frites"

How that fish stayed on the plate I ain't never gonna figure, it was so light and airy and clean it was like to float up! The veggies were so fresh it was like nibbling out of the garden, and I had to check and make sure I hadn't grown bunny ears. Who knew parsnips ruled the veggies you should fry up world?

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The only thing about a working stay like this that sucks is we don't get to sit at the meal as long as we'd wanna, so we had to order dessert to go. The pictures didn't come out nice of the cake, but I can try to get some more since it's the dessert I usually get. The others sound delicious, but they tend to have either espresso or liquor in them and I can't have caffeine or alcohol. They brought these little things out on the house though, and ain't they the cutest? That's D grabbing for a truffle before I can take it's picture, he's such a punk! The little dark chocolate truffles are really in the deep cocoa category, they were my favs. The apple jellies were all tart and sweet and just charming, and the only ones I wasn't fond of were the citrus candied peel sort of things but it ain't a fair call since I ain't never been partial to 'em.

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At the start of the meal, I brought my cook book with me to get it signed by the Chef De Cusine, but he wasn't in on Sundays and they said I could bring back the book on Monday for him. That was nice, but...

This was the real surprise! They brought back a menu for me, and look at what they did!

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Y'all, it's no lie to say I about fell out the chair and clapped my hands like a little kid. Y'all know as soon as I can we're getting this framed, ain't it the best? You can read it better in some of the pics.
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More tommorow, Lord willing and the creek don't rise.

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