saturday [belated food roundup]

the market haul

habanero chillis

kumquats: for marmelade

purple lamb's lettuce

smelts, from the elbe river

pan fried smelts with a purple lamb's lettuce + parsley salad with pickled shallots.

we also had the rest of the trout caviar

pan roasted venison on cauliflower puree with a pan sauce and a radicchio, witlof and parsley salad

cabbage pasta with bacon lardons, toasted pine nuts, parmesan and sage

poached quince with natural yoghurt and their poaching syrup

oven roasted carrot soup with toasted cumin, fresh ginger, lemon zest and parsley

pan seared calf livers with a radicchio, witlof and turnip salad

this was perfectly cook and amazing, however ugly it may look.