You can’t hurry lunch is an article written by Jannine Williamson, who stayed aboard the Finesse for a week in July, for World of Cruising magazine.
Tag: Wine
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…
Maigret du Canard
Dinner entree of Maigret du Canard, fondant de pomme de terre, Fenouil, Nectarines, Dill, Sauce Bigarade. Bigarade in English means bitter Orange, the sauce begins with a caramel to which you add the juice of orange, lemon! lime & star anise, when this has become syrupy you add the zest. This then add.ed to to…
Captains Dinner
Every Friday evening on the Rosa is captains dinner, a more formal evening where everybody dresses up & the captain sits down for dinner with the guests. This week we served for the entree “Fillet of Limousine Beef Rossini” Limousin beef fillet, mi cuit foie gras, fondant potatoes, truffled celeriac purée, spinach, medoc…
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