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10-8-13 Some dishes from earlier this year

Here are some dishes that were Earlier this year.

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Frank's Cucina Goat cheese tortellini with pesto & roasted tomatoes
Frank’s Cucina Goat cheese tortellini with pesto & roasted tomatoes

1) The first is an Large Ravioli stuffed with goat cheese

over pesto with roasted cherry tomatoes

 

 

Frank's Cucina Pork loin in the style of porchetta
Frank’s Cucina Pork loin in the style of porchetta

2) My ultimate  comfort food, Pork loin in the style of Porchetta ,

stuffed with home made sausage, cooked with red onions and fennel

 

 

Spaghetti in lobster, sun dried tomato cream sauce
Spaghetti in lobster, sun dried tomato cream sauce

3) Home made spaghetti, in a lobster,

sun-dried tomato cream sauce with arugula .

Such a great combination and I like it with a little kick

 

 

Orange marinated Peking duck with artichokes
Orange marinated Peking duck with artichokes

4) This was outstanding, worth me doing again.

The duck was marinated in orange juice & pepper,

then cooked until the fat was crisp and the marinade was used as a sauce.

The baby artichokes were marinaded in orange juice & olive oil

after sitting for a while they were very tender

 

 

Rubarb marscapone cream mousse cake
Rhubarb marscapone cream mousse cake

5) This   dessert I used marscapone cream instead of ricotta,

it was a cake with a marscapone mousse and a rhubarb glaze

Took longer to cook that I thought

 

Vegetable napoleon with olive tapenade
Vegetable napoleon with olive tapenade

6) Roasted, plum tomatoes, bell red & yellow peppers

 

for max flavor,  grilled onions all layered in-between

phyillo dough for crunch

with  kalamata olives for the tapenade

 

Lobster and baby artichoke risotto
Lobster and baby artichoke risotto

 

7) What more can I say ?

 

Duck breast with port and cherry sauce
Roasted Duck breast with port and cherry sauce

 

8) A diffident winner

 

Stay tuned for addition blogs of several menu’s

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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