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Showing posts with label Alex Lovett. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alex Lovett. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Chef's recommendations and recipes: 21st October

Head chef Alex Lovett recommends from the à la carte menu:

Tagliatelle with cèpes and chanterelles, rocket, shaved Parmesan


Autumn is the season for mushrooms and this dish shows them off at their best, especially if you use wild mushrooms. I normally use a mix of cèpes and chanterelles but you could substitute a number of different mushrooms instead. In fact when preparing this dish I used pieds de mouton on this occasion rather than chanterelles.

Recipe: portions for one serving

Ingredients:
Mushrooms (cèpes, chanterelles or others): handful
Chopped shallots – pinch of
Parmesan velouté – see recipe here
Chopped parsley – good pinch
Lemon juice
Tagliatelle
Rocket leaves dressed in olive oil
Parmesan

Frying the mushrooms

Method:
Sauté mushrooms in olive oil over a high heat until they colour
Add three to four tablespoons of Parmesan velouté and bring to boil
Add good pinch of parsley and a squeeze of lemon juice
Add cooked tagliatelle to pan and mix to integrate the sauce and the pasta. Check seasoning

Bringing Parmesan sauce and mushrooms to boil

Place tagliatelle and sauce on a plate. Garnish with a handful of rocket leaves tossed in olive oil and decorate with three or four shavings of Parmesan.

Plating up

Shaving the Parmesan

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and from the fixed price menu:

Slow roast belly of Suffolk pork, broccoli, sweet onions, new potatoes, anchovy and walnut sauce

(to finish)




Saturday, September 19, 2009

Around the RSJ

Abby with the last bottle of 2003 Cuvée Prestige Lamé Delisle Boucard

Alex: in the heat of the kitchen

Confit of duck – ready to plate

Next course arriving......... Jay heads up the stairs

Monsieur Claude – front of house dealing with reservations

Coffees to go – Jay and Abby

Someone has to dry up – anyway Jay seems to happy doing it!

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Chefs' recommendations: 2nd September

Easy riding Ian Stabler – Abby doesn't look fully convinced!

In the first of a regular series, Alex Lovett and Ian Stabler, RSJ's chefs, select their current favourite dishes. This week they have chosen from the new menu that starts on Friday 4th September:

First course
Vitello tonnato, shaved cucumber salad, marinated anchovies, caper berries £6.95 /£10.95
A reworking of an Italian classic. Can also be ordered as a main course.

Nigel's wine recommendation:
"This strong flavoured dish will happily take a light to medium red. I suggest either the
2008 Anjou Gamay, Domaine Richou £17.50
Fresh, light style but good concentration

2008 Anjou Rouge Château de la Roulerie, Philippe Germain £19.75
Very low yield, but quality high, good fruit and soft tannins"


Alex Lovett

Main course
Roast lemon sole, black pepper gnocchi, broccoli, cherry tomatoes, Parmesan velouté £16.95
Alex Lovett: We chose this dish because now is the season for sole, which we are sourcing from the Icelandic waters, and also from broccoli. The black pepper gnocchi is one of our specialities."

Nigel's wine recommendation:
"I'm going for this Saumur Blanc, one of our house selections. It's made by from Dominique Tessier – I've been really impressed over the past couple of years how much Dominique's wine-making has come on.
2008 Saumur Blanc Domaine des Hauts de Sanziers D. Tessier £16.50
Nice weight, ripe balanced finish with lovely freshness.


Ian getting ready to start his shift!


Shaking those pots and pans..........

George's new dessert menu (available from Friday 4th September)

George, RSJ ‘s pastry chef

Desserts all £5.75

Treacle tart, lemon sauce, clotted cream

Pride of Kent apple and blackberry crumble, vanilla ice cream

Coconut and orange crème caramel

Sultana and ginger steamed pudding, honey ice cream

Warm prune and chocolate torte, amaretti ice cream

Poached Marjorie seedling plums, Greek yoghurt, shortbread

Homemade ices and sorbets



Claude and a bottle of Jean-Pierre Chevallier's Saumur-Champigny

Claude looks after the front of house with Nigel.