Loin of venison served with a wild mushroom pie filled with yellow & grey chanterelles & pied de mouton, caramelized parsnip purée, braised silver skin onions, wilted spinach & port & chocolate sauce.
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Pumpkin & rhubarb
An unusual ingredient for dessert, set pumpkin creme served with sous vide poached rhubarb, Parkin ( Yorkshire gingerbread ) & rhubarb fluid gel. Parkin is a classic gingerbread that is very easy to make & keeps well in air tight container, it actually tastes better after a few days. Parkin recipe 55 g. …
Rabbit & Pickled Chanterelles
Loin of rabbit with prunes wrapped in Serrano ham, ragu of rabbit leg, rabbit kidneys, white carrot, baby carrot, carrot purée, pickled yellow chanterelles, spinach, madeira & marjoram sauce. A good way of preserving any excess wild mushrooms is to lightly pickle them, they will keep for upto six months in pickling jars in the…
Guinea fowl & carrots
Rolled supreme of Guinea fowl on a bed of spinach with purple & yellow carrots, baby carrots, braised silver skin onions, roasted ratte potatoes & Madeira sauce.
Venison
Loin of Venison served with red cabbage purée, celeriac fondant & celeriac purée, savoy cabbage, pickled yellow chanterelles & a chocolate & red currant sauce. The venison loin cooked was sous vide at 52 degrees for 45 minutes with a tablespoon of duck fat & two sprigs of time, then pan seared before being…
Wood Pigeon
Breast of wood pigeon with a pitithier of confit pigeon leg & wild mushrooms, “risotto” of spelt grain, beetroot & confit pigeon leg, spinach, compressed candy beetroot & pigeon sauce.
Classic Cassoulet
The most famous dish from Gascony is without doubt is cassoulet given its name from the dish that it is cooked & served in, Cassol d’Issel an earthenware pot from the town of Issel near Castlenaudary. Everywhere you go in this region of France seems to have its own variance on the recipe for Cassoulet,…
Buzet Appellation
On our Bordeaux cruise every Wednesday night we moor up at the village of Buzet-sur-Baise, approximately halfway between Agen & Bordeaux the Buzet appellation is made up of 27 villages between the Garonne river & Landes forest covering 18,000 hectares of vines. Wine has been produced in Buzet since Roman times & was formerly part…
Trip to Sauternes
A trip from our stop in Castet-en-Dorthe to the world famous Sauternes AOC, the wine of Sauternes, praised as early as the XII century by Richard the Lionheart, was regarded by gourmets of bygone days as the finest of great white wines. Thanks to the 1855 Bordeaux Classification the quality & renown of Sauternes wines…
Rabbit
Rabbit saddle wrapped in Bayonne ham, terrine of confit rabbit leg & marjoram, seared rabbit kidney, carrot purée, pistachio, sprout leaves, Madeira. The rabbit was served with Louis Jadot LaDoix 2011 from Burgundy, ladoix is a village north of Beaune in southern burgundy. Usually producers of red wine this white is produced with grapes…
Last menu of the season
Menu from the final week of hone season 12 to 18 October.
Captains dinner starter
The starter in seven course captains dinner was a terrine of foie gras & fresh figs served with fresh figs, fig confiture made on the barge & pain D’Epice with honey. The terrine was cooked vaccum packed in a water bath at 53 degrees for twenty minutes, just long enough to allow the core to…
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