Xmas Eve 2010 supper

Herb crusted lamb chops with sweet potato mash, young carrots and braised asparagus

Thanksgiving 2010

Huge menu for Thanksgiving this year:

French Onion Soup with Gruyere and Mozzarella

Roast Lamb with Homemade Mint Sauce

Brussel Sprouts with Cranberries and Apple

Sweet Potato Souffle

Roasted Rosemary Potatoes

Yorkshire Pudding

Braised Asparagus

Buttered Young Carrots and Parsnips

Shoepeg Sweetcorn

Dessert was my own homemade pumpkin cheesecake and pumpkin pannecotta with caramelized pears.

Food for the Season of mists

Last weekend, we visited Quechee in Vermont where we had lunch at "The Mill at Queechee". Vermont is a rural place - famous for its cows and cheese, harvest festivals and maple syrup. So of course, the whole world and their wives descend upon Vermont in Autumn.

Arriving at the restaurant at 1.30pm, we were not seated until 3.30pm. Luckily, they had a glass-blowing factory downstairs where we killed time.

My selected dishes were nothing to write about but Paul chose this amazing dish which does deserve a write-up. The salmon is wild Alaskan sock-eye (less fatty than Atlantic) marinated in balsalmic vinegar and grilled. It sits on a bed of sweet potato, pumpkin, leek and cranberry hash surrounded by a mustard creamy sauce with maple syrup reduction! It was a little sweet but savory - very autumn. Nothing screams "Fall!" like sweet potato and pumpkin....