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Monday, September 20, 2010

What We Ate





With apologies to Georges Perec, here are the menus of the meals on the first leg of our trip.


Auckland to Melbourne
 
DINNER (pictured above)  

Appetiser:
Shrimp cocktail with fresh lemon wedge and iceberg letture  

Main course:
Braised lamb
In a tomato gravy, served with orzo pasta mixed with grean beans and pumpkin

or

Roast cajun chicken
with creamy parsley mashed potatoes, and sautéed sugar snap peas, and carrot batons  

Dessert:
Chocoberry cake
Fudge like chocolate cake and a sweet raspberry coulis

Cheese and biscuits


Melbourne to Dubai

DINNER  
Appetiser:
Tuna salad on a bed of creamy potato salad with red peppers  

Main course:
Moroccan style chicken topped with a rich beef and onion jus, Pommery mustard flavoured mashed potatoes and roasted vegetables  

Dessert: Passion fruit cheesecake  

AS YOU LIKE IT
Chicken pie
Tender chicken pieces cooked with mixed Thai spices in a crunchy pastry casing

Vegetable pie
Classic filling of mixed vegetable in light cream cheese sauce

Fresh seasonal fruit

Assorted chocolate bars

BREAKFAST
Appetiser:
Fresh seasonal fruit  

Main course:
Mixed grill
which includes grilled beef steak, veal sausage, sautéed button mushrooms, roasted chat potatoes and a grilled tomato

or

Swiss cheese omelette
Light and fluffy omelette filled with grated Swiss cheese, served with hash brown potato and fresh mushrooms tossed in tomato sauce  

Dessert: Croissant served with butter and preserve


Dubai to Milan  

DINNER

Appetiser:
Classic Greek salad
of tomato, cucumber and feta cheese with pitted black olives.

Main course:
Breaded white fish fillet
with a creamy red pepper sauce, dill flavoured mashed potatoes and seasonal vegetables

or

Butter chicken
Tender pieces of chicken
cooked in a creamy spiced sauce, served with carrot rice and dal makhani  

Dessert:
Chocolate banana streusel
served with vanilla sauce Cheese and biscuits



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