A Cold Supper

Prefaced by an appetizer of lamb bolognese and lemony pasta - and crunchy snacks and ginger bourbon spritzers before that - a main course of assorted summer salads hit the spot on yet another stifling sultry Saturday night. 

Cafe Drake's evening buffet froid was a welcome antidote to the day's (near) heatstroke: Tunisian Onion Salad with sumac, French lentils and diced veggies dressed with mustard and olive oil, sweet peaches bathed with lemon juice and ground cumin, assorted olives and chilies, heirloom tomatoes tossed with roasted green bell peppers and chilled string beans in a sesame sauce. A recipe for the string beans can be found HERE in the Cafe Drake archives.