Weekend

[altariel]

gair and gerald came at the weekend, bringing joy! In return, I made them take rural buses and sit on hard chairs!

Meanwhile, mraltariel cooked a dinner of special magnificence:

Gin snow
Duck egg with watercress
Mushroom veloute
Roasted fennel with tomatoes, peas and fried potato
Pink grapefruit sorbet
Pear and olive baked yoghurt with lemon scones
Ginz and tonix

Recipes here. And pictures below the cut.



Duck egg with watercress soup


Roasted fennel with tomatoes, peas and fried potato

Stupidly, I didn't take a picture of the dessert, because it was so beautiful I was sitting gasping at it. But they were tiny, tiny scones of deliciousness!

Comments

[muuranker.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Waves of sympathy to MrAltariel. I hope he gets where he's going very soon. With upgrades.

I keep saying in my mind mushroom... vegetables (specific) ... soy. And imagining it and then saying.... coffee.... And not imagining it. Definitely, definitely, something to try next week.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

He made the flight, but his luggage is somewhere else.

The coffee works as a kind of 'mystery flavour': you know there's something extra there, contributing to the 'earthiness' of the mushrooms, but it's only when you're told that you realize it's coffee (despite the clue of it being served in espresso cups!).