Ethereal Lamb

Hinting flavors of Arabian descent, New Zealand lamb is served upon a mound of purple potatoes, skin still on for goodness , horseradish added for distinction.
Figs, biblical fruit from the past, were poached in dry sherry hinting an English invasion to lands of old, complimenting complex flavors from far off lands .
Eat your heart out Lawrence of Arabia .
Food of the gods, ethereal by nature. Whose gods and whose country is any-ones guess. All that is known is that the flavors are old and the marriage majestic. What more is needed?

Southern Hospitality Menu

Tennessee (2008)Private Dinner party

Fried Rabbit Liver Toast with spicy pepper jelly and shaved sweet onion salad

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Collard greens and kale salad with Benton's Bacon and stone ground mustard vinaigrette

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Braised Shorts Ribs (all natural beef) with spicy peach and red wine reduction served with Sriracha pimento cheese grits, stewed okra and tomatoes, and TN chow chow

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White Chocolate Pumpkin Cheesecake

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Summer in East Hampton

East Hampton July/2009

Cold Melon Gazpacho with Maryland Blue Crab, prosecco and garden fresh "pineapple basil"

Grilled Stone Fruit Salad with Belgian endive, frisee, radicchio, walnuts, hazelnuts, and Maytag blue cheese

Lunch-bag Fresh Catch with local heirloom tomatoes mixed with Mediterranean medley of Kalamata olives, capers, red onion, red/yellow bell peppers, garlic and fresh oregano. Served atop hand made linguine noodles, all cooked inside a brown lunch-bag. Each bag is individually opened to release all the sensational aromas of summer fresh herbs and vegetables.

Mandarin Orange Butter Cake with Pineapple whipped cream and apricot glazed seasonal fresh fruits

Ethereal Scallops

Nestled in a Bok choy Garden of Eden heavenly scallops await the connoisseurs approval.In a miniature champagne glass rose water poached lychee and exotic tamarillo fruit make up the sauce which could equally be drunk as an intense flavor shot or an exotic cocktail. Fresh fruit contrasts the complex sauce , straight from the garden of Eden, but not so tempting as the apple from the poisoned tree. These fruits are all about life and the essence of Asian compliments to the seas plentiful offering.

Ethereal Prawns

Towering into the heavens , prawns rise up from the oceans for all to enjoy. In a cup of cucumber upon a stage of apple tzatziki to the Greek's , raita to the Indian's a cooling sauce with the freshest of garden mint compliments these crustaceans invoking calm flavors subtle by nature that take you in your minds eye to calmer places, seas on far distant islands where mythological gods exist Serene on Renaissance painted tranquility.