{"id":2835,"date":"2018-06-26T15:19:40","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T19:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=2835"},"modified":"2018-06-26T15:19:40","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T19:19:40","slug":"a-picnic-by-kinship-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=2835","title":{"rendered":"A “Picnic” by Kinship (DC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kinship is one of our favorite restaurants in Washington, DC, so when an invitation arrived stating that there was going to be a dinner at the farm of one of its suppliers, we didn\u2019t hesitate! Neither did our 19 year old daughter (who is home for the summer\u2014yay!) and two of her friends.
\nEric Ziebold and C\u00e9lia Laurent are the couple who own and run Kinship to perfection. Eric is an extraordinarily gifted chef, and C\u00e9lia is the operational brains behind the business.
\nThe dinner was held at Martin\u2019s Farm in The Plains, Virginia, about an hour and a half west of DC. The dinner arrangements hit a slight snag when a thunderstorm passed through The Plains that afternoon, making it impossible to start cooking or setting up on time. The storm also soaked the ground, and there\u2019s nothing quite like the experience of that lovely red Virginia clay soil turning into lovely red Virginia mud. (The choice of appropriate footwear was directly proportional to the enjoyment of the evening.)
\nIt was also a good experience for the 3 young women, who had probably never been on a working farm before. (Certainly, the one belonging to us had not.)<\/p>\n

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note appropriate footwear<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

All of these delays were easily solved by wine and sangria, of course. And once the cooking stations were operational, the dinner was as lovely as one might expect.
\nThere were two appetizer stations set up, serving a Path Valley Farm Hen Egg with Grits and L\u2019Abeille Garden Anise Hyssop and a Small Mouth Bass with Summer Solstice Succotash and Rouille. The grits were delicious, and the bass melted in your mouth. (I suspect the bass were still swimming happily in the pond earlier that day.)
\nDinner consisted of Avocado Toast with Chorizo and Lamb Leg Terrine as appetizers with Slow Roasted Lamb Shoulder with Warm Green Tomato Salad and Tahini and Red Wine Marinated Tri-tip and Grilled Ribeye with Kinship Steak Butter as entr\u00e9es. Side dishes consisted of L\u2019Abeille Garden La Ratte Potato Salad with Beef Bacon and Rosemary, Savoy Cabbage Coleslaw, and L\u2019Abeille Garden Chicken Spice Grilled Asparagus. Even this potato salad-hater liked the potato salad (but, then, with enough bacon, all things are possible). And the asparagus was delicious. The coleslaw lovers in the family declared the coleslaw excellent, but I decided that I needed to save my hard-earned optional calories for dessert.
\nThe two dessert stations served Brown Sugar Shortcake with Vanilla Cream with either L\u2019Abeille Garden Verbena Strawberries or Orange-Scented Blueberries and S\u2019mores Cake with Chocolate Cr\u00e9meux, Toasted Meringue, and Soft Cinnamon Cake. The chocolate lovers in the group declared the s\u2019mores cake to be excellent. The shortcake was all shortcake should be\u2014more cake than biscuit\u2014rich and with no bitterness. It was fabulous.<\/p>\n

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a selfie by old people…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The dinner could not have been set in a more scenic location. The surroundings were beautiful\u2014a timely reminder of how gorgeous the Virginia countryside can be. All in all, a tranquil and delicious way to wind up a summer weekend.<\/p>\n

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gorgeous day!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kinship is one of our favorite restaurants in Washington, DC, so when an invitation arrived stating that there was going to be a dinner at the farm of one of its suppliers, we didn\u2019t hesitate! Neither did our 19 year old daughter (who is home for the summer\u2014yay!) and two of her friends. Eric Ziebold […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[82,25],"tags":[371,331],"class_list":["post-2835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-restaurants","tag-kinship","tag-restaurants"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p23QXm-JJ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2836,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions\/2836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}