Had to break my no-feed streak for this one…
Yesterday we headed over to Little Beast in Ballard for a roast dinner – I have not been able to find anywhere in the Seattle area that does a roast in the 8 years we’ve been here, and for some reason I haven’t had a roast either of the times we’ve been back to the UK, so as you can imagine, this was pretty exciting!
I don’t do roast pork at home, partly because we never really had it growing up and partly because I could never do such beautiful crackling (which let’s face it, is the best part) so I was even happier to see this on the menu with roast beef (which looked so good, but there was no way I was sharing the #porks goodness). The roasts came with enormous Yorkshire puddings (and yes, we totally ordered more because who doesn’t love Yorkshires? Monsters, that’s who), peas, roast potato, and cabbage.
We also ordered Scotch eggs (a favorite in this house, I have made duck ones before which were epic but they are so much work, so I appreciate when I can buy them!), a delicious tomato salad, and some grilled bread with herby butter…everything was so good! I was so full by the end that I wasn’t too sad that the dessert I chose had run out, but the Eton Mess everyone else had looked great (and I’m now thinking about making meringue to do my own next week!)
Drinks-wise, I had a Pimms (which had ginger in, not something I have done before because I’m basic and just do it with Sprite, but it was good!) and Alex had an Old Speckled Hen which is a UK beer that I’ve not seen over here before!
One of the things I really dislike about the US is how British food gets unfairly labeled as bland and boring, but Little Beast proves that even “simple” food can be incredibly delicious.
