SEASON ONE: LETTUCE!
Welcome to Caviar for a day! Each season will feature exclusive and sophisticated, yet approachable, recipes where the key ingredient is as humble as, well, an egg.
The series starts with 13 delicious recipes including amouse-bouches, appetizers, salads, entrees, and desserts.
LETTUCE MENU
(recipes will follow soon)
BLACK LEAF SASHIMI LIBRETTO
Libretto of squid-tinted lettuce between slices of raw tuna and salmon,
stitched with scallions, ginger soy cream sauce.
BLTP
Open-faced lettuce medley, grilled lardons, on country grilled bread
spread with lightly stewed heirloom tomato and persimmon.
THE SALAD
Little gem salad with edible flowers, radicchio crisps, citrus-bacon
dressing and chickpea flour croutons
TRIO OF CREAMS
Trio of lettuce cream lagoons, each made with a different variety (Bibb, Romaine, Oak Leaf) surrounding its own island: cod cake, smoked trout caviar, and poire-pickled shallots. Basket of warm toasted brioche.
FRESH GREEN BATIDA & FLIGHTS
Shot of iced lettuce batida with vodka, accompanied with
lettuce flights enhanced with salt varieties.
AMUSE-BOUCHE
Pressed, oven dried lettuce strips deep-fried with Spanish jamón fat,
served with reduced plum sauce for dipping
MEAT AND POTATOES
Braised lettuce, potato, truffle puré with wood-grilled protein of the day.
INTERMISSION
Lettuce and citrus sorbet
GO GOAT
Lettuce cups with curried goat, crunchy lettuce/endive chutney, red pepper polenta croutons.
DESSERTS
-Iced grapefruit pellet over a fluffy donut crepe, lettuce-honey warm sauce.
-Dark chocolate-covered romaine ribs with paçoca.
-Medley of reduced green and red leaf lettuce teas with assorted sweet and salty biscuits.
-Lettuce fennel liqueur.
Illustration: Lettuce Seller, detail. Artist unknown. France, 1742
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