Dinner - Monday, October 19th

Option #2

In the spirit of me doing things that I want to do because I can, or at least think that I can - I have sort of bit off a really big chunk of things that I would like to see, and in fact there were so many things that I wanted to see that I wrote two menus both of which are ridiculously exciting sounding to me, involving all sorts of complex techniques and preparations that will take me the better part of a week to do, which might be fun... The menus are a little bit more expensive than usual and I probably over-estimated the costs involved (but don't count on it) - so if I did I will tell you total cost at the dinner, but prepare for the worst. Because of the nature of the preparation for option #2 I will need to know the vote within the next couple of days otherwise I won't be able to get the pigs head in time.

Option #1 ($23 per person)

• Escargot Sur un Champ Vert
• White Truffle Oil-Infused Custards with Black Truffle Ragout
• Carrot Soup
• Soft Polenta with Forest Mushrooms
• Pot-Au-Feu

Braised prime beef short ribs with root vegetables & sauteed marrow

• Indeterminate Cheese
• Nectarine Salad with Green Tomato Confiture & Hazelnut Sabayon

Option #2 ($21 per person)

• Kamumoto Oysters with Blood Orange Aspic
• Seafood Bisque
• Salmon "Chops" with Celery and Black Truffles
• Head to Toe

Head Cheese with sauce gribiche & sweetbread stuffed trotters on green lentils

• Pomegranate Juice with Cloves
• Ashed Chevreaux* with Slow-Roasted Yellow & Red Beets with Red Beet Vinaigrette

*Or suitable substitute

• Cream of Walnut Soup