Here's a summer meal with an asian flair...
Salad of mirin steamed grass shrimp, hass avocado, baby escarole, radish sprouts, and puffed rice noodles, dressed with blood orange, ginger, and seseme oil.
Monsoon 2004 Reserve Chardonnay Santa Barbara County
Baby (3-4" across) Soft Shell Crabs, Olympia Oysters, and tiny squid fried tempura-style and served with Sunomono (Japanese Cucumber Salad), Dongchimi (mild white radish kim chi), and Soba (chilled buckwheat noodles) dressed with lime and umaboshi (sour pickled plums).
Juyondai Sake served chilled to cellar temprature.
Pecan-crusted pan-seared bluefin tuna fillet (very rare) served with grilled matsutake mushrooms & young asparagus and a stripe each of truffle and thai basil oil.
Two Hands Shiraz Barossa Valley
Tiny cream puffs filled with a mixture of creme fresh and wild Maine blueberries, and dipped in dark chocolate, with a scoop of white chocolate ice cream.
Itallian Expresso with a shot of Frangelico Hazelnut Liquor
Last edited by mlshanks; Jun 21, 2007 at 12:07 am