Sometime last year I had lunch at Caveau a great little restaurant in Wollongong. Head chef at Caveau is Peter Sheppard, a protege of Liam Tomlin. Anyway, the lunch special on that day was a chicken ballontine with potato puree, mushrooms, buttered spinach & cepe(porcini) sauce. The chicken was cooked perfectly, I am still trying [...]
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Chicken ballotine, potato puree & carrot jus
08 Apr 2009 at 23:31
Kiplagat
French Lessons by Justin North, La Technique by Jacques Pepin, Random Recipe
Square Banana Tarts
Inspired by Jacques Pepin’s Tart Carree from his book “La Technique(Complete Techniques)”. This tarts were amazing, banana & custard(creme patissiere) is one of my favourite flavour combinations. Puff pastry shell I used frozen Puff Pastry bought at Nakumatt, not as good as home made one. The commercial varieties use random vegetable oils/fats instead of butter. [...]
