Au nom de la fête (In the name of the festival), we celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival with some friends at home with an Italian menu...
Simple and clean set-up as usual
bit of Mid-Autumn Festival details to remind everyone of the traditional festival...someone saw the "Ling Kok"( a kind of water chestnut but has horns) and quipped "Oh, that reminds me of my childhood..."
The "Ling Kok", translated literally means Holy Horns. It is actually a floating aquatic plant with triangular leaves and these fruiting bodies are hard as horns and they droop into the water from the plants' floating body. We used to play with these when we were small.
Yams from China - these are specially used for the Mid-Autumn Festival and are not found throughout the year.
A sort-of bean soup from cannelini, borlotti and chick peas. The stock is a mix of onions, tomato sauce and lamb bits.
A carbonara of tagliatelle home-made.
Pan-fried Dory, seasoned with lemon, herbes de Provence on a bed of baby French beans. The beans are highlighted with lemon zest and fresh onions. The cooking jus was made by deglazing the pan with some white wine and fresh orange juice.
We skipped the salade and went straight to the dessert: chocolate cake with orange sauce.
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