Sample Menus

I custom design each menu working closely with the host/ess. I offer 4-5 course dinners as well as 7-8 course Chef’s Tasting menus. Below is a sampling from meals for recent clients:

Seafood Chef’s Tasting

Wine Country Chef’s Tasting

French 5-course

Italian Tasting Menu

Asian Fusion

 

Italian Vegetarian Menu

ANTIPASTO PLATTER

Grilled Baby Asparagus, Parmigiano Reggiano

Roasted Sweet Red Peppers

Tapenade

Roasted Balsamic Fennel

Cheese Assortment

Breadsticks and Crostini

SALAD (served with basket of warm Italian bread and butter)

Classic Caesar

OR

Panzanella

(Bread Salad)

SOUP

Minestrone

Chef’s choice of market fresh vegetables/ Bodega Bay potatoes/ Rancho Gordo beans,

OR

4-Bean Pasta e Fagioli

ENTREE

Eggplant Parmigiana

topped with Pt. Reyes hand-pulled, fresh mozzarella

served with Polenta

OR

Vegetarian Lasagna: riced cauliflower, broccoli, carrots / handmade pasta/ Pt. Reyes hand-pulled fresh mozzarella / Bellwether Farms Ricotta

Dessert

Huosemade Cannoli/ fresh Napa Valley ricotta

Bongiorno: Italian Brunch

My Brunch: a Culinary Journey menus offer you a taste of Paris, Italy or Mexico. Or you can stay home for a Classic American Brunch.

From our Bartender, ” My favorite Italian brunch cocktail has to be The Bicicletta, as much for the name as the way it goes down… this drink made of Campari/ white wine and Italian club soda gets its name from the old Italian men who would wobble and swerve on their “biciclettas” (“bicycles”) on their way home after having one too many!”

 

STARTER

Basket of warm Popovers

with Cinnamon Mascarpone Spread & Cherry Kirsch Jam

ENTREE

Uova Benedetto 

Poached Eggs on Polenta

with Crispy Proscuitto and Herb Pesto

Polla alla Cacciatora

Hunter’s Wife’s Chicken

SALAD

Arugula with Pink Grapefruit, Toasted Pine Nuts

with a Citrus Agave Dressing

SIDES

Hash Brown Potatoes with Pancetta, Parmesan and Parsley

Seasoned Yellow Fingerling and Bodega Red Potatoes

 sautéed in EOV

DESSERT

Bread Pudding, Amaretto Sauce

BEVERAGES*

Citronata

Aranciata, bitter orange *liquer and *Lillet Blanc

Bellinis

Chef’s choice of seasonal fresh fruit

*cost of liquor is not included