Merry Christmas and a Very Happy New Year!!

Happy Yuletide season to all my lovely readers! I hope you have had as much fun as I have in reading my posts (as I have in eating on your behalf!)

Last night for Christmas Eve, the Boy cooked up a romantic dinner for two... and I've got the pictures below!

Many thanks for sticking by this blog through its infrequency in postings... and here's to many more food related (and some other reviews) posts in 2011!

Les Petit Truffe - Autumn Festival In Spring

The Boy and I spend approximately 20 hours last weekend preparing for a fabulous dinner for our Autumn Festival (Moon Cake Festival) dinner for his cousins....

The feast was a huge success, the dishes all prepared by us (apart from the macarons, I do NOT want to talk about it)... yes even the dips and mayo were all made by us :)

This post, I'll put up all the dishes and description and I'll leave it up to you, my wonderful readers, to select your favourite dish and in the following post, I'll put up the recipe for that dish!

So enjoy, feast with your eyes and don't forget to comment at the end :)

Aii yaii yaii... arrribbbaaaaaa... Les Petit Truffe

Read this blog post title and just picture a chef (any chef) wearing a Mexican hat and screaming in the French kitchen... just picture it...

The Boy wanted to finish up some ingredients in pantry/fridge/freezer/kitchen (he was going to cook all my food)...

We were going to have a "rubbish night!".. you know... the night where you can't be bothered and just eat sausages, chips, pizza...drink lots of coke...

Except that, this is the Boy's take on his "rubbish" night =)

First dish was a thinly sliced aubergine (brinjal/eggplant) which he baked in the oven drizzled with olive oil.

Roughly chopped and fried some chorizo to put on the topping... served with chorizo oil and garlic crisps...


Chorizo done 3 ways... one with Japanese Mayo, one with tomato relish and one with gherkin.... served with preserved capers


Lastly, hash browns served with thinly sliced swiss brown mushrooms, sliced chorizo


Together with burnt sage and crisp Serrano ham (I nearly murdered him when I found out what he did with the Serrano... but it was so crispy and delicious... I just glared at him for 2 minutes)



And that my friends, is how you make a "Meh" night to a "Glam" night!!

Les Petit Truffe C'est moi!!

I am going to be lazy today and let the pictures do the talking =P

This was when D&Z were in Melbourne galivanting... we cooked this when they were not killing wallabies...

Winter vegetables with carrot puree

Roasted Stuffed Capsicum with Truffle mash


Chicken Roulade with Serrano Ham, crumbed with fresh thyme and sage and tarragon flowers


Roasted pork loins with creamy white sauce, thyme and gherkin


Group shot of the fabulous spread...


Poached pears with cinnamon and vanilla bean



Dévore ton coeur mes amis!

Bonjour! Les Petit Truffe (Again)

I think I shall stick to Les Petit Truffe... I quite like the name and it's here to stay (French cuisine or not!)


My favourite meal of the day!! Breakfast for dinner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


We have what looks like a simple meal of a hard boiled egg, toasted white bread, baked tomato with chorizo and parmesan, hummus (home made... did I say I love TAHINI!!!!!!!), chick peas, rocket leaves and a fine sprinkling of cracked black pepper and pink sea salt.

Upon close inspection, when you cut into the bread, eggyolk oozes out of the centre (the Chef made a hole in the bread and cracked a egg and cooked it while toasting on the pan)


The hard boiled egg, when popped open, revelead a fine mash of egg yolk and hummus (surprisingly a good match)


To top it all off (the next night! I'd die if I had to eat all that food in one seating)

Home made gnocchi served with a burnt butter and sage sauce.... (the Chef went a bit overboard in the size of the gnocchi, but it was home made...so we can look pass that!)

Les Petit Truffe @ Carnegie

I felt very lucky last night, as I was invited to a 3 course meal courtesy of Les Petit Truffe in Carnegie.

Having had a wonderfully long and arduos day (of shopping and cleaning!), it was a definite welcome change...


Beautiful pink sea salt.. you don't get the pink varieties in many places these days (except maybe in Maze and Fifteen!


The chef decided to go easy on the first entree of the night...

Duck Fat French Fries with a sprinkling of pink sea salt. Freshly made French Fries always taste so deliciously good. Somehow the duck fat enhanced the sweetness of the potato... *yumMmm*


A shot of the 2 entree's...


For the second entree, we had Roasted Stuffed Capsicum with Truffle Mash


When we took the cap off the capsicum (hohoho.. pun WHOLLY intended), we saw that it was stuffed with chopped swiss brown mushrooms, smoked chorizo, caramelised onion and thyme

Oooh.. and the little burn bits you see resting on the truffle mash, is actually Parmesan Crisps... very nice!


This was absolutely smashing... the capsicum was deliciously sweet and went really well with the stuffing... Not to mention.. the truffle mash potato was really light and fluffy with a hint of the aromatic truffle oil...


For the main, we had Chicken Roulade, lightly crumbed and stuffed with thyme and served with a gherkin relish


Chicken was tender and moist, and the delicate flavour of the thyme went really well with the gherkin... amazing...


All in all, a very satisfactory meal in warm and pleasant company.

Great food and great company... I hope I get another invite soon!

Food/ Cuisine: Contemporary
Overall Food Rating: 8/10 (There is no set menu here)
Restaurant ambiance: 8/10
Service/ Attitude: 8/10 (NEW RATING FEATURE!!!)
Value for money: -/10 (It was invite only.. hence FREE!)

Address:
Carnegie 3163
VIC
(Address will be revealed upon invitation)

Les Petit Truffe is open
seven days throughout the year
and tastings are only by invitations
Dinner 7pm—11pm

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