A Taste of Fall at the Chef's Table...

Well, autumn is definitely here! The ingredients shout it out loud constantly every day, and every moment. Our farmers are bringing in great, great product by the bushel. Cauliflower...Potatoes...Cress...Porcini, Chanterelle and Saffron Milky Cap Mushrooms...Apples & Beets...Salsify, Truffles and Celery Root...Pears and Crab apples. So many wonderful foodstuffs, so little time. Can't get it all in in a day's cooking. Better start the prep list for tomorrow! Recently, we had some great customers come in for yet another chef's table dinner to celebrate a special occasion. I wanted to give them a nice treat heading into this fall season. Here is the menu we cooked for them and their guests. It was an awesome dinner. I am so spoiled! Enjoy...

~AMUSE~

"Hot & Cold Cauliflower"

chilled panna cotta, maine lobster salad, american sturgeon caviar, celery leaf

hot "bisque", herb infusion and brown butter

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House Cured Duck Prosciutto

gnocchi parisienne, mango, winter cress, mostarda, warm blood orange olive oil dressing

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Seared Hudson Valley Foie Gras

roasted wild porcini, butternut squash galette, truffle-banyuls syrup, gingerbread salt

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Sea Scallop & Braised Beef Shortrib Ravioli

apple-pine nut pancake, beets, almonds, garlic jus

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Carrot-Chervil "Soda"

nutmeg foam

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Hyppocraticum Brushed Oregon Lamb Loin

fregola sarda-chanterelle strudel, glazed salsify, creamy polenta, washington truffles

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Slow Roasted "Dog Mountain Farm's" Comice Pear

apple crumb cake, spiced creme fraiche, cider sorbet

walnut macaroon, sardinian "Abbamelle" honey

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Chocolate-Praline "Bouche", Blackberry Pates de Fruits, Callebaut "Bon Bons"

Autumn Spice Milkshake

and there you have it...

a taste of fall!