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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

  1. -Vegetarian and Vegan meals

  2. -Children menus and baby food

  3. -Low fat meals

  4. -Family-style meals

  5. -Gourmet dinners

       

Appetizers:

  1. -Coquilles Saint-Jacques with leeks and mushrooms (seafood casserole)

  2. -Grilled portobello topped with caramelized onions and fontina cheese

  3. -Salmon and shrimp terrine with fromage blanc/garlic sauce served on spaghetti of cucumbers

  4. -Shrimps wrapped in prosciutto on grilled red pepper sauce

  5. -Onion, gorgonzola and walnut tartlets

  6. -Mushrooms stuffed with parmiggiano, garlic, walnuts

  7. -.... and much more


Soups:

  1. -Minestrone soup with pistou

  2. -Zucchini and oregano velouté

  3. -Baby artichoke and sundried tomatoes velouté

  4. -French onion gratinée

  5. -Seven vegetable soup

  6. -Spinach, rice and chickpea soup

  7. -Stracciatella soup (typical Roman soup)

  8. -.... and much more


Pasta/rice:

  1. -Penne with red pepper and basil pesto

  2. -Rigatoni with walnut and rucola pesto

  3. -Tagliatelle with wild mushroom ragu

  4. -Three cheese gnocchi

  5. -Linguini with feta, olives, sundried tomatoes and grilled eggplants

  6. -Rigatoni all’arrabbiata with tomatoes and chilis

  7. -Risotto milanese style with saffron and parmesan

  8. -.... and much more


Meats:

  1. -Chicken all’arrabbiata cooked with Chianti wine and green olives

  2. -Chicken with endives and crème fraiche

  3. -Pork tenderloin with kumquat and shallot sauce

  4. -Boeuf Bourguignon cooked with Bordeaux wine, mushrooms and pearl onions

  5. -Veal saltimbocca, with prosciutto, fontina cheese and sage

  6. -.... and much more


Side dishes and Vegetables:

  1. -Almond and current couscous

  2. -Zucchini and feta pancakes

  3. -Saffron rice

  4. -Couscous with feta and mint

  5. -Quinoa pilaf

  6. -.... and much more


Desserts:

  1. -Traditional Tiramisu

  2. -Selection of mini strawberry tarts w/ custard cream (creme patissiere)

  3. -Apricot Strudel served with whipped cream

  4. -Cream puffs stuffed with vanilla cream (choux a la creme vanille)

  5. -Ricotta tart w/ strawberries

  6. -Panna cotta w/ raspberry coulis

  7. -.... and much more



Servicing the San Francisco Bay Area

650-704-0852

silvia@citronetvanille.com