Very hot "salad" at Tuc Craft Kitchen

I was at Tuc Craft Kitchen over a year ago, and the menu has changed a lot. Fortunately still on the menu are the Orange Glazed Lamb Ribs (was $9, now $11), which are still three ribs per order, and still very delicious by all accounts of people who had them. I passed this time and tried curious-sounding things instead.

Crispy Bacon and Egg ($4)

Pretty much exactly as it sounds: Hard boiled egg wrapped in lightly battered bacon fried to a crisp.
This was on the menu way back when and probably kept because it's strangely good in its simple way.

Parsnip Fries ($5)

Long, noodle-like strings of parsnip, coated in batter and deep fried.
The sauce that came with this is really tasty.
The fries themselves weren't oily to the touch, but tasted like slightly oily batter.
Waste of time and overpriced for the fluffy 2-cup portion you get.

Farmer’s Summer ($16) tender squash, assorted beets, vine ripened tomatoes, ricotta cheese, sweet pea sugo

Sounded like a salad but it came in a very hot bowl. So hot the server needed to caution me.
The beets were shredded into long, thin, noodles. The experience of eating this is like having a hot bowl of noodles!
Definitely mix the goodies in the bowl or all the sauce will stay sunk at the bottom and leave you a sour-salty soup to finish.
TIP: Ask for a spoon when you order.
Overall, good tastiness but really more interesting than anything.
Found only one (1) yellow tomato smaller than a ping-pong ball.

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