Another year, another fabulous New Year’s Eve Dinner….  2010 has been a great year for Lulu’s Kitchen.  The cookbooks are selling well, I had 2 TV appearances and several guest chef cooking classes in Bay Area cooking schools.  Looking forward to 2011 as it is the year of the Rabbit…my year!

Here’s the fabulous dishes and wines that we chose to ring in 2011…

 

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Antipasto Platter

2007 Far Niente Chardonnay

Sevruga caviar, smoked salmon and crème fraiche

Roederer Estate Brut Champagne, Andersen Valley 

Matsuhisa salad with ahi tuna

Dungeness crab Duet:

Steamed crab with Shoshing wine egg custard

Crab cakes with remoulade sauce

2009 Allan Scott Sauvignon Blanc

Duet of duck and fennel-pork confit bruschetta with frisee lettuce

2004 Skewis Pinot Noir, Montgomery Vineyard

Roasted bone marrow with garlic crouton and blood orange-apple confit

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Spicy lemon rosemary lamb chops

Fettuccini with shaved white truffles

Lemon-mint green peas

1989 Chateau La Grave a Pomerol

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Cheeses with honey figs and walnuts

1994 Joseph Phelps Insignia

 

Chocolate lava cake

Lemoncello