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lillibetTasting Menu
Saturday, 16 October 2010
cucumber-dill sorbet
pear-goat cheese crostini
creamy parsnip soup
with guanciale
grass-fed tenderloin tartare
Italian onion soup
with onion-fontina bruschetta
mushroom-artichoke bread pudding
duck egg salad
with mixed greens and warm anchovy vinaigrette
poached haddock in saffron broth
with chorizo, steamed greens and celeriac
roasted leg of rabbit
with chestnut-potato purée and Dijon mustard sauce
slow-cooked goat in puff pastry
peach tea sorbet
with ginger syrup
a tasting of aged Reypenaer
with apple-porcini pate
maple pots de creme
with fresh strawberries
gingerbread-pear cake
with vanilla ice cream and melted chocolate
a selection of nut brittles & chews
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Date: 2010-10-17 08:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-18 01:10 am (UTC)The crostini were a fantastic combination of flavors. I wish the recipe were online--it calls for tossing the pecans with honey & brown sugar and the pears in honey & butter and roasting them, so those are sweet and warm and balance really nicely with the salty goat cheese and bitter/spicy greens.
Other people listed as their favorites the parsnip soup (which I thought came out well, but didn't blow me away as much as the creamy artichoke one I did last time) and the mushroom-artichoke bread pudding, which was good but not as impressive to me as other things. I am incredibly fond of the duck eggs with warm anchovy vinaigrette and greens, but no one else seems to dig it the way I do.
We all loved the haddock--the mix of flavors there is really wonderful and the intense flavor of the tomatoes really came through. The rabbit got some good comments, but I think didn't hit other people's tastebuds as straight on as it did mine. The goat was really less good than anything else, but on there for novelty value, which it definitely had.
The desserts were both really good, but everyone seemed to think the pots de creme were the winner.