One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. -V.Woolf
On Friday, November 5th, 2011, my husband and I arrived at
Hacienda Herradero Viejo for our dinner sampling! We were going to decide on an appetizer, soup, and entree. Going into the tasting, all we knew is that we wanted the entree to be chicken.
Appetizers
The first option for the appetizer was a creamy seafood mix on top of a flaky, baked, type of pastry bread. I didn’t like this one, but my husband did.
The second was a spinach crepe. I forget what type of sauce it was drenched in, but I do remember it being too salty for my liking. My husband did like it, but agreed that it was too salty. This was a maybe, if the salt was adjusted.
The third option, were mini empanadas. There were five different kinds of filling; mushroom, broccoli, cauliflower, potato and a mixed one. They were topped off a delicious chipotle sauce. These were our favourite! Sooo yummy!
Crema: Cream based soups
I absolutely loved the presentation of the soups! It’s perfect, a soup in a round bun! Get to dip the top, and work your way down.
There were three options for la cream; cream of broccoli, cream of mushroom, and cream of cilantro. Each soup had a different type of cheese in it too. But, the only one I can remember is the cream of cilantro with panel cheese. I loved the cream of broccoli, my husband was very fond of the cream of cilantro with panela.
Entree
There were two choices of meat for the main dish; chicken or pork. As I mentioned before, we knew we wanted chicken. We tried the pork, it was good, but too dry. Even the delicious chipotle sauce couldn’t rescue it. We did not want to take that risk of presenting a dry meal to our guests.
Chicken entree, was presented in two ways: (1) Drenched with delicious pistachio olive oil and nuts, and dried fruits inside. (2) Drenched in a savoury cream, which at this time, can’t recall! Hahaha, but it was good!
The next part of the main dish had to be decided, the accompanying side. There were four options;(1) Kebab of seasonal veggies, (2) Warm fruit puree on top of a baked apple slice, (3) Baked potato, or (4) Baked spinach roll topped with sesame seeds.
The Meal
We decided on the vegetable empanadas for the appetizer, cilantro and panela for the cream based soup, and both ways of preparing the chicken, with the fruit puree and spinach roll.
The food was a hit at our reception. Everyone kept on complimenting our food choices and how everything tasted to amazing!!!!! Yay! 🙂
besos, bendiciones y buenas vibras.
