Last night's dinner

[wellinghall]

0. Three green olives; two slices of freshly-baked foccacia; home-made butter.
1. A picnic. A miniature quiche lorraine, filled with foam. A scotch egg, containing a soft-bolied quali's egg. A tiny coronation chicken open sandwich. Potato and truffle salad, with marble-sized potatoes.
2. Cucumber gazpacho with frozen horseradish.
3. Tomato and mozzarella salad; but I can't eat tomatoes, so I had beetroot and mozarella salad.
4. Lemon sole with peas and scrumps.
5. Loin of pork with barbecue sauce and crackling.
6. Strawberries with a strawberry reduction and balsamic vinegar.
7. Chocolate and lavender mousse, with dark salt chocolate, and toast.
8. Pine nut panna cotta and Amalfi lemon sorbet, with the scent of the Amalfi coast (ie three lemons on a bed of marble chips, onto which the waiter poured liquid nitrogen).

Accompanied by:
A. A bottle of Devil's Corner, a Tasmanian pinot noir.
B. A carafe of tap water.

Comments

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Which restaurant? (Or was this something you whipped up on your Baby Belling?)

[adaese.livejournal.com]

Casa Mia, in Westbury.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Thanks! *Makes note to try it.*

[adaese.livejournal.com]

Last time we went here, they were terribly earnest and busy pushing the frontiers of culinary science (cherry tomatoes dipped in white chocolate and then rolled in finely-chopped black olives, for instance). The food is just as extraordinarily good, and liquid nitrogen features just as prominently, but they've discovered a sense of fun along the way - hence the egg-and-bacony foam being served in a little tiny pastry case and called Quiche Lorraine. The entire "picnic" course was served from a hamper, naturally.

[inzilbeth-liz.livejournal.com]

I'm intrigued by the use of liquid nitrogen which I've only ever seen used for cattle AI!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

The scent of the lemons was very faint, but it was very impressive visually!

[fallingtowers.livejournal.com]

OT:

Thanks for the virtual gift! I'm trying to imagine that this tiny pixellated snowman lowers our office temperature by at least 5°C... :)