Long Island Duck! Flounder! and a Film Festival!

Guests and innkeeper alike continue to be dazzled by Chef Devin's offerings. For starters this week, we've been serving a Spring Salad, with Carding Brook Farm Greens, Spiced Pecans, Roasted Grapes, Crumbled Great Blue Hill Cheese with a Lemon Vinaigrette; Lobster Cakes, with Stonington Lobster, Parsley Lemon Gremolata, Local Greens and Lemon Sorrel Salad; and Charred Bagaduce Oysters, with Roasted Leeks, Smith’s Smokehouse Peppered Bacon, and Garden Chives, among other options. (Can you hear my voice reading these words out loud? The combinations Chef Devin puts together intensify the deliciousness.)

Entrees include Pan-Seared Long Island Duck Breast, with Mashed Turnip Puree, Duck Confit, Local Rhubarb Compote, and Four Season Farm Garlic Spinach; Crabmeat Crowned Broiled Flounder, with Shallot Lemon Beurre Blanc, Buttered Quinoa, and Sauté of Four Season Arugula; an 8 oz. Grilled Grass-Fed New York Strip, Au Poivre, with Reggiano Butter, Garlic Mashed Potato, and Sauté of Four Season Spinach; House Chive Gnocchi, with Roasted Butternut Squash, Garden Herbs, Toasted Walnuts, Asiago Cheese, and Braised Kale. The squash was the last to come from Chef Devin's own garden. Our small kitchen herb garden keeps us supplied in sage, basil, thyme, rosemary, oregano, chives, parsley, and mint.

We are delighted to be hosting a reception for the Image Gazer Film Festival Friday night. If the weather holds, we'll enjoy hors d'oeuvres and drinks in the garden; a spring shower will bring us into the parlor. We are co-hosting with the Maine Film and Video Association so you know the conversation will be lively.
Following the reception will be shorts and live music at the New Surry Theater at the Town Hall next door, student films in the Town Park, followed by the premiere of Flash Phenomenon, a documentary about the steel drum craze here in Blue Hill. How can you not be excited about this line up? The festival is traveling this year so you can catch films at the Opera House, the Alamo, and the Grand.

The 10th Annual Lupine Festival rolls into the area this weekend as well and the lupine are right on schedule. I worried all spring--so many blossoms have been a week or more late, but the lupine aren't letting us down. Check out their schedule and make a plan--lupine by sea or plane. Art, music, everything lupine!

If you aren't expecting to have this grand of a weekend, come see us! We have all this plus sweet breads at breakfast that have guests raving all day. This morning, the cook baked pineapple coconut scones with toasted almonds. From the guest book: "Thank you for the delicious pampering." "A splendiferous experience, laced with impeccable taste."

See you on the lupine loop!