ten course french meal

[mollykins]

Tonight i'm going to a french evening, where you have ten taster courses, ten may seem a lot, but i've been to similar ones at the same restaurant, but with different cuisines. And for example, with this one, you might get one of the flat mushrooms, with a bit of sauce, as one of the courses, which they bring out in twos or threes. So altogether it only adds up to 3 or 4 platefuls (by the end i can barely eat the pudding though)

French Onion Soup with Gruyere croutons
Deep fried whitebait dusted with spices
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Beef bourguignon
Nicoise salad
Cassoulet (bean & sausage casserole)
Dauphinois potatoes with peas flavoured with onions & lettuce
Trout fillet with almonds
Flat mushrooms with tarragon & crème friache
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Cream Brulee
Apple, pecan & butterscotch puffs

Would you eat this menu? last year my mum and dad went to an australian one (which i didn't fancy going to. There was stuff like crocodile and kangaroo on the menu)

[haysi06]

Hi mollykins. Nope I wouldn't eat ten courses. I would eat the soup, the Cassoulet and that's about it as the rest don't appeal to me. Have you tried Andouille? My friends boyfriend eats it....it's rank!

[lardhelmet]

Hi molly - it does sound delicious but I'd skip the soup and white bait, so that hopefully I'd have room for (a small portion of) dessert.

[mollykins]

I've had white bait before and don't like it, so i didn't have that and i just had the mushroom from the beef bourguignon.

But dad doesn't eat creme brulle, so me and mum had half each.

Yes but the ten courses are only small, the soup came in a ramakin with one large crouton, we got one of the apple puffs each, the creme brullee came in a dish per 2/3 people, you got one mushroom each, one piece of trout each, if you put everythign onto plates together it would have only filled 3, probably not even 4, like i said.

[coccinelle]

And how much did it cost by the way?

[Old_Geezer]

No not all of it.
Pet food in the form of rabbit fodder I'd not touch. Nor would I be interested in nuts.
But the rest sounds nice. Bit light on well cooked veg though.

[mollykins]

£12.50 per person, which for the equivilent of a three or four course meal isn't bad is it?

[coccinelle]

That's very good value. Where is this restaurant or wasn't it a restaurant?

[mollykins]

Well its a restaurant within a hotel. i don't know what they do with the guests they have staying who don't want the meal. We get there about sevenish and the tables are set up for the french meal.

Caldecott hall, a couple miles west of yarmouth.

Oops i lied, its now £13.50, but i'm sure it was £12.50 last year.

http://www.caldecotth...o.uk/hotel/events.htm

they haven't got the menu for next month up yet, they should do soon, if any of you are in the area, i know a few abers are in norfolk.

[mollykins]

But they did have the bread menu on the tables, and it was stuff like soup and croutons, welsh rarebit, possibly naan bread with some indian thing, that sweet frnech bread with the chocolate inside and bread and butter pudding, but i can't remember what else.

[smurfchops]

I saw something like that in Richmond Surrey yesterday and it was priced at £25 . Went to Fishworks instead, really good.

[joggerjayne]

I think it all sounds very jolly, Molly.

I would try it all.

[mollykins]

But if you think about it the price is realy good and its a nice hotel so the food is nice, shame msot of you lot don't live anywhere near it.