Foie gras

Canapés

Every evening before dinner aboard the Finesse we serve canapes with pre dinner dinks, we try to do something a little different like what we call our goats cheese Oreos. Olive bread filled with whipped goats cheese, topped with black olive tapenade & baby basil Spoons containing little potato & shallot rosti, topped with pan…

At the end of the week on Friday on the Finesse we have a last evening gala dinner, this week the starter was a pressed foie gras & raspberry terrine served with fresh raspberries, raspberry purée & pea shoots. A whole lobe of foie gras is bought to room temperature & then gently deveined, then…

Foie gras

As the seasons move on here the garnish changes on dishes according to what is currently fresh & available, with autumn upon us pears which can be seen growing in orchards all the way along our cruising route, are perfect match for the local foie gras. Here a whole lobe of foie gras has been…

Duck Rossini

alnut Another new dish from the Rosa for this season, in honour of Gascony is Duck Rossini using the breast & foie gras of Moulard duck, the breed used in foie gras production in the region, a cross between Muscovy & White Pekin duck. The duck breast was first cooked for 2 hours sous vide…

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…

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…