"TASTER PLATTER" ....6 small courses on a single plate.......



Sliced Jalapeño peppers...seed compartments emptied of seeds and filled with parsley and garlic salsa verde; sliced chicken drumstick, dusted with tumeric, garlic powder, yellow curry sauce and herbs...then, flour-coated and  fried in avocado oil; a pair of snow peas, steamed, then flavored with herb butter, flanking a miniature sweet corn, lightly cooked in Thai lobster sauce; sliced yellow corn meal-crusted chicken thigh, pan fried with French herbs and roasted garlic;  smashed miniature potatoes, cooked in pan drippings and topped with tiny carrots, cooked in ghee, with marjoram, thyme, sourwood honey and bitter dandelion relish......; and a semolina puff, stuffed with camembert cheese and smeared with Thai red curry paste......

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