A while ago, I introduced you to the founders of the dinner
party club – the Urban Gardeners. The
other members include the Visitors from Hawkes Bay, the Creative Cooks, and the
Bean Counters (Mr Sporting Bean Counter and Mrs Shopping Bean Counter). MOTH has been talking for a long time about
having a Degustation Menu as a theme, so we sent out a menu that went like
this: amuse bouche, vegetable, soup, fish, salad, fowl, palate cleanser, meat, fruit,
dessert.
This is what it looked like…
Course 1
Amuse
Bouche: Salmon tartare, with crème fraiche in a poppy seed tuile
Wine: Dibon Cava Brut Reserve or Framingham F-Series Viognier 2010 (Marlborough)
By: Mr Visitor from Hawkes Bay
Course 2
Vegetable: “Toad
in the Hole” – kumara poached in stock and saffron, with beetroot centre on jus reduction
Wine: Church
Road 2009 Cabernet Merlot
By: The
Creative Cooks
Course 3
Soup: Iced
plum tomato soup with mozzarella and basil oil
Wine: Casco
de la Cruz Pedro Ximenez Sherry
By: Your
Friendly Blogger and the MOTH
Course 4
Fish:
Poached salmon with beetroot relish and basil mayonnaise
Wine:
Lawsons Dry Hills 2008 Riesling
By: The
Urban Gardeners
Course 5
Salad:
Roasted artichoke and pea salad
Wine: Esk
Valley Hawkes Bay Pinot Gris 2010
By: The Bean
Counters
Course 6
Fowl: Herbed
chicken on rocket
Wine: Peter
Yealands Pinot Gris 2011
By: Mrs
Visitor from Hawkes Bay
Course 7
Palate
Cleanser: Raspberry and pinot noir sorbet
Wine:
Matahiwi Wairarapa Pinot Noir 2010
By: The
Creative Cooks
Course 8
Meat: Eye
fillet and blue cheese on parsnip puree, with parsnip crisps and baked onions
Wine:
Taylors Clare Valley Merlot 2010
By: Your
Friendly Blogger and the MOTH
Course 9
Fruit:
Rhubarb fool
By: The
Urban Gardeners
Course 10
Dessert:
Rich chocolate on crème anglaise
Wine: D’Arenberg
Noble Botryotinia F*ckeliana 2011
By: The Bean
Counters
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