2014 Olympics: Iceland

Today's Olympics honoree is Iceland. Gail made an Icelandic dish she found on Food.com: Andreas Viestad's chicken with saffron and cinnamon. The cinnamon flavors were mild, but given that roast chicken is such a favorite of mine, this dish was a wonderful melding of international and familiar flavors. The drippings made a great sauce for the potatoes.

I poured Garún Nr. 19, an Icelandic stout from Borg Brugghús. I'm not sure I've poured a darker stout. I thought it tasted like a beer version of coffee ice cream, very rich and creamy.

Rancatore's Cinnamon Cherry Chip

It was a perfect night to stop for ice cream at Rancatore's. I tried a new flavor, cinnamon cherry chip. It had plenty of large, dark (I'm guessing Moreno) cherry halves, huge chocolate chunks, and a nice balance of cinnamon. As always, the base was creamy and fresh. Yum.