Budem!!

Pronounced "boo-dyim!" it is a Russian toast.  And well, at Kachka, we toasted!  Or we were toasted?  Or both.

Kachka was this amazing Russian restaurant - and everything was divine.  Except the pickled watermelon, that was nauseating. 

We had flights of vodka, we had mixed drinks, we had pickling juice to cleanse our pallet.

We had, in no particular order, meals of:

• Heirloom tomatoes with farmer cheese and dill olive oil
• Baltic Sprat Buterbroti with tiny smoked fish on pumpernickle
• Sheep cheese and pimento spread
• Some thing that was like a savory quesadilla but Russian
• Golubtsi (Cabbage Rolls)
• Rabbit in a Clay Pot
• Beef, pork, veal and onion dumplings
• Scallion and farmer cheese dumplings
• And.   The very best thing:  house breads and whipped salo

 Now, let's talk about that last thing a little bit.   There was sourdough bread, and pumpernickel that was like candy.   And then.  There was salo.  Salo is pork fat that has been whipped like butter.  And you spread it on the bread.  And eat it.  And if you die of a clogged artery, you don't even care.

I will absolutely come here again...and eat whipped pork fat.