What does $26 worth of vegetables look like?

If you're at Abode, something like this:

The picture is sheer crap (cameraphone, dark restaurant), but trust me that you're not missing much; however, I was.

Abode's take on "Indian-spiced roasted vegetables from the farmer's market" inspired me to do something no other dish has done: Take inventory.

3 white asparagus spears (each approx. 6" long)

5 green asparagus spears (each approx. 5" long)

1 baby pattypan squash, halved

2 baby carrots (one orange, one yellow)

1/2 cauliflower floret

1 brandied cherry, large

3 slices fried lotus root chips

Total cost: $26.

To be fair, every vegetable or fraction thereof was beautiful in shape and taste. But it was billed as an entree and I'm not an anorexic. (Which, if they're aiming for the Koi crowd, may not be an unreasonable presumption.)

Comments

[erin]

Yikes!! A little over $1 a vegetable (I refuse to count the cherry, lotus root, and the 1/2 cauliflower floret). I hope you cut them into very tiny pieces and savored each bite.

[duckduckgoose]

I had the foie gras and I kid you not it was about the size of a quarter and came with about 20 lentils for 20 something dollars. I'm so over restaurants like this. Food is just not that expensive. Why mark it up so much?