

Pour bien aimer un pays il faut le manger, le boire et l’entendre chanter - Michel Deon
Personal Chef Services
Dinner Parties
Cooking Classes in French or Italian
A FEW DISHES
We offer many menu options such as:
- Customized menus
-Vegetarian and Vegan meals
-Children menus and baby food
-Low fat meals
-Family-style meals
-Gourmet dinners
Appetizers:
-Coquilles Saint-Jacques with leeks and mushrooms (seafood casserole)
-Grilled portobello topped with caramelized onions and fontina cheese
-Salmon and shrimp terrine with fromage blanc/garlic sauce served on spaghetti of cucumbers
-Shrimps wrapped in prosciutto on grilled red pepper sauce
-Onion, gorgonzola and walnut tartlets
-Mushrooms stuffed with parmiggiano, garlic, walnuts
-.... and much more
Soups:
-Minestrone soup with pistou
-Zucchini and oregano velouté
-Baby artichoke and sundried tomatoes velouté
-French onion gratinée
-Seven vegetable soup
-Spinach, rice and chickpea soup
-Stracciatella soup (typical Roman soup)
-.... and much more
Pasta/rice:
-Penne with red pepper and basil pesto
-Rigatoni with walnut and rucola pesto
-Tagliatelle with wild mushroom ragu
-Three cheese gnocchi
-Linguini with feta, olives, sundried tomatoes and grilled eggplants
-Rigatoni all’arrabbiata with tomatoes and chilis
-Risotto milanese style with saffron and parmesan
-.... and much more
Meats:
-Chicken all’arrabbiata cooked with Chianti wine and green olives
-Chicken with endives and crème fraiche
-Pork tenderloin with kumquat and shallot sauce
-Boeuf Bourguignon cooked with Bordeaux wine, mushrooms and pearl onions
-Veal saltimbocca, with prosciutto, fontina cheese and sage
-.... and much more
Side dishes and Vegetables:
-Almond and current couscous
-Zucchini and feta pancakes
-Saffron rice
-Couscous with feta and mint
-Quinoa pilaf
-.... and much more
Desserts:
-Traditional Tiramisu
-Selection of mini strawberry tarts w/ custard cream (creme patissiere)
-Apricot Strudel served with whipped cream
-Cream puffs stuffed with vanilla cream (choux a la creme vanille)
-Ricotta tart w/ strawberries
-Panna cotta w/ raspberry coulis
-.... and much more
Servicing the San Francisco Bay Area
650-704-0852