Final Dinner Menu July 2 2014


Pagliacci’s Dinner
The Previews
All salads & appetizers served with our fresh focaccia bread baked in olive oil
Minnesota Fats
Edgar Allen Poe’s Crab Cakes
Six crispy fontina & mozzarella cheese & basmati rice balls
with tomato sauce
Try these or we'll break your thumbs
10
Canadian Rock Crab cakes with lemon aioli
“This is it, & nothing more.” His favourite recipe
10
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Leon The Pig Farmer
Bill Murray’s Meatballs
Bacon wrapped blue-cheese stuffed dates
“Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig & come out of as
a sausage.” - Ambrose Bierce
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Three large meatballs served with marinara & parmesan
“Attention, here's an update on tonight's dinner... It was veal. I
repeat, veal. The winner of tonight’s mystery meat contest is
Jeffery, who guessed, 'some kind of beef'.”
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A Moveable Feast
Ménage à Trois Dips
Roma tomatoes, red onion, fresh basil, olive oil, balsamic
vinegar, garlic & parmesan on house made crostini
“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach
you to keep your mouth shut."-Ernest Hemingway
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Hummus, Spinach & Artichoke,
Roasted Red Pepper Tapenade
“Love is good, but tastes better with bread”
3 each or all three for 8
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Dinner Salads
Prince of Tides
Das Goat
Seared scallops, portobello mushrooms, pine nuts, sun-dried
tomatoes & pancetta bacon, tossed with fresh spinach in a
pesto vinaigrette
“Frankly, Scallop, I don’t give a clam.”
Full 17 or 13.5 Half
Das Salad, spinach, goat cheese, fresh pear, walnuts, sundried cranberries with a raspberry vinaigrette
Created by our Kitchen Kapitan, Das Sukh.
Full 14 or 11 Half
Salmon Chanted Evening
Marco Pollo Grilled Chicken
Pan seared Wild Salmon, marinated artichokes, avocado,
capers, roasted red peppers & red onion on mixed greens
with a creamy lemon basil dressing
You can substitute Cajun chicken breast instead of salmon
“Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.”
Full 17 or 13.5 Half
One half chicken breast, romaine lettuce, artichokes, black
olives, red onion, tomato, carrots, parmesan with a pesto
vinaigrette dressing
The original recipe brought back from 12th Century China, but
fresher.
Full 14 or 11 Half
Pagliacci’s Salad
Sid Caesar
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Leaf lettuce, carrots, garbanzos, green onion, egg, feta
cheese, olives & tomato
Full 14 or 11 Half
Add Prawns three for 5, six for 9
Add Scallops three for 6, six for 11
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Romaine lettuce, egg, croutons & parmesan
We have come to eat Caesar, not to bury him.
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Add 1/2 Grilled Chicken Breast or Baby Shrimp
Tax not included
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Main Attractions
The Steaks
10 oz AAA Angus New York Cut 29
with seasonal vegetables & fettuccine or risotto
Add Prawns 3 for 5, 6 for 9
The Damon Runyon
The Raging Bull
The Grubsteak
Kentucky Bourbon marinade with
fresh mushrooms & garlic
“The feeling is pari-mutuel. I’m insured.”
Peppercorn sauce with a touch of
cream
DeNiro would not have thrown this one
against the wall.
Blue cheese, garlic, capers & butter
sauce
H.G. Wells’ the Invisible Man said,
“A bath & a tenderloin steak, those are
the high points of a man’s life.”
Seafood
I’ll Have What She’s Having
Market fish, clams, mussels, prawns, scallops & crab legs in a light seafood marinara
“It’s that good, we’re not faking”
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Cannibal Women in the
Avocado Jungle of Death
Wild Salmon pan seared, avocado salsa
with seasonal vegetables & fettuccine or risotto
It’s really a movie, from 1989, with Shannon Tweed & Bill Maher
“These women are serious about their taste in men…& salmon”
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Prawns Al Capone
Shell on butterfly jumbo prawns Chicago style, sautéed in butter, white wine & garlic
with seasonal vegetables & fettuccine or risotto
Untouchable
eight 20 - five 15
Chicken & Veal
Your Choice Milkfed Veal or Chicken Supreme 25
with seasonal vegetables & fettuccine or risotto
The Thin Man
The Big Lebowski
Ralph Kramden
Marsala cream sauce & mushrooms
There won’t be any leftovers for Asta.
“Whole Beast” Chorizo sausage,
peppers, red onions, cherry tomatoes,
artichoke hearts, basil, sherry
“Three thousand years of beautiful
tradition, from Moses to Sandy Koufax…”
-Walter
Parmigiana baked with tomato sauce,
mozzarella & parmesan
Chef of the Future Special for the
Raccoon Lodge Annual Dance & Bowl
Dinner.
Side Show Salads
add to a main attraction 3 or al la carte 7
Four house dressings: Parmesan, Yogurt-Dill, Caesar & Maple Balsamic Vinaigrette
Greenleaf
Caesar
Spinach
Leaf lettuce, carrots, garbanzos,
green onion, tomato & olive
Romaine lettuce, egg, croutons &
parmesan cheese
spinach, carrots, red onion, croutons
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Tax not included
& a cherry tomato
A La Carte
Gluten free pasta may be substituted upon request
These pasta dishes arrive with focaccia only
Want more? Consider a side salad add 3
Risotto
The Little Caesar Risotto
Scallops, prawns, baby shrimp in a mushrooms, spinach, & white wine risotto
"Mother of God, is this the end of pasta?"
Full 19 or 15 Half
Seafood Pasta
The Shellfish Gene
Fresh clams with linguine, butter, garlic, tomato & spinach
An intelligently designed pasta, cooked by a flying spaghetti monster
Full 18 or 14 Half
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Sophia
Dungeness crab, baby shrimp & pine nuts
in a white wine cream sauce topped with smoked salmon
egg or spinach fettuccine
“Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.”-Sophia Loren
Full 18 or 14 Half
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The Shell Game
Scallops, prosciutto, fresh spinach & crushed chilies in olive oil & garlic on linguine
topped with parmesan
We fix it, you can’t lose
Full 18 or 14 Half
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The Prawn Broker
Jumbo prawns in coconut milk, cashew curry sauce with mango chutney &
a touch of cream on a bed of spinach fettuccine
If you prefer, substitute chicken for prawns
Full 18 or 14 Half
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Salmon Sing in the Streets
Wild Salmon, with linguine, spinach, fresh basil, red onions & cherry tomatoes
with lemon, white wine & olive oil
“I'll love you till China & Africa meet & the river jumps over the mountain & the salmon sing in the street.” W. H. Auden
Full 18 or 14 Half
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Mr. Roberts
Seafood lasagna loaded with Dungeness crab, baby shrimp &
mozzarella served with tomato sauce
We’re Fonda this dish
15.5
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more pastas on the next page
Tax not included
Meat Pasta
Dempsey’s Lasagna
Beef, mushrooms, ricotta & mozzarella cheeses with tomato sauce between layers of fresh pasta
“A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.”
Jack Dempsey
15.5
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The Big Easy
Jumbo prawns, chicken, Italian sausage, bell peppers & mushrooms in a spicy cajun marinara sauce on penne with parmesan
If you want it mild, ask your server
This one will have you Barkin.
Full 18 or 14 Half
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Hemingway Short Story
Tortellini stuffed with beef, parmesan, cottage & mozzarella cheeses in a bacon cream sauce
topped with green onions & parmesan
It’ll make the earth move for you
Full 15.5 or 11.5 Half
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Bicycle Thief
Italian sausage, mushrooms, fresh tomatoes, green onion & fontina cheese, tossed with linguine in a light garlic chicken broth.
Comes with or without tomato sauce – your choice
Full 15.5 or 11.5 Half
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The Cabinet of Dr. Capelletti
Tortellini stuffed with beef, parmesan, cottage & mozzarella cheeses tossed in our tomato sauce with mushrooms, onions & red
wine, mozzarella & parmesan baked on top
Hypnotizing
Full 15.5 or 11.5 Half
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Meat John Doe
Spicy meatballs & linguine in tomato sauce with parmesan
If you don't understand the rest of this menu... order this, it's spaghetti & meatballs.
Full 14.5 or 10.5 Half
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Vegetarian Pasta
Manhattan Transfer
Fresh basil pesto, pine nuts, sun-dried tomatoes, sautéed mushrooms & garlic topped with fontina cheese
egg or spinach fettuccine
Full 18 or 14 Half
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Ravioli Paradiso
Spinach & ricotta ravioli tossed with sun-dried tomatoes, walnuts & gorgonzola cream sauce
Full 18 or 14 Half
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My Secret Garden
Fresh tomatoes & mushrooms marinated in
red wine vinegar, olive oil, garlic & fresh basil on linguine, topped with fontina cheese
Vegetarian erotica
Full 14.5 or 10.5 Half
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Cabin in the Sky
Fettuccine Alfredo. Cream, pine nuts & parmesan with your choice of egg or spinach fettuccine
It beats the devil
Full 14.5 or 10.5 Half
Tax not included