TWO amazing things from Dinner Saturday night...

Dinner at ORSO.
http://www.orsoalaska.com/

.... among the many including the wine and port!

1.Crispy Seafood SamplerTender pieces of Alaskan salmon and halibut, with shrimp lightly battered, along with a **seafood-stuffed squash blossom**, served with a red pepper preserved lemon coulis.

~ Having never had a stuffed squash blossom before I am a converted fan and would eat one everyday if I could, it was *that* good.

2.Fresh Alaskan Silver Salmon simply seasoned and grilled. Served over harissa lentil ragout finished with tomatoes and foraged Alaskan mushrooms in a garam masala spiced Matanuska Valley pool ball squash. Topped with Alaskan Moosetard-dill crema.(http://www.moosetard.com/)

~ Absolutely outstanding! I have to reconstruct that moosetard sauce. It was the perfect cooling accompaniment to the spicy harissa.