Best meals to eat before you die 5905

and In no particular order: Sauteed Abalone with brown butter, lemon and capers Quiche Lorraine made exactly according to Thomas Keller's recipe in "Bouchon" French Onion Soup Gratinee Italian Gelato at Giolitti in Rome preferably fragole, annanas e ciocolatto (strawberry, pineapple and chocolate 1 scoup each) Wiener Schnitzel with lemon and spaetzel (cooked then fried briefly with brown butter) Potstickers, fried, with 2 really good dipping sauces Rack of Lamb, roasted with a wine based demi glace reduction sauce and pate choux herbed gruyere gnocchi Mussels (prepared at least 4 different ways preferably Mouclade, Marinere, Billi Bi soup, Thai coconut curry,) Singapore Chile Crab Texas Chili with beans on the side and bacon cornbread Steamed Artichokes with Bernaise Sauce Beef Fondue with at least 3 dipping sauces preferably Bernaise, horseradish cream and something curried Tagliatelle with Bolognese Sauce Squash Tortellini with brown butter and fresh sage Tuna prepared at least 4 ways, raw as in tartare or carpaccio or sushi, grilled with peppercorn crust Sauteed Crab Cakes with Remoulade Sauce Dover Sole Almondine Smoked Salmon with buttered toast points, creme fraiche, minced red onions and capers Beef Wellington made with pate and shallot mushroom duxelles, all butter puff pastry dough and a demi glace based sauce Hot and Sour Soup Still warm French baguette, at least 3 perfectly ripe French cheeses, pate and French red wine Linquine with freshly steamed clams in a white sauce Fonduta with lots of freshly shaved Alba truffles Grilled Porcini Mushrooms Reuben Sandwich Sauteed Sweetbreads Roasted Beef Tenderloin with Yorkshire Pudding Sauteed duck foie gras with something tart and sweet Duck breast with green peppercorns Fried Chicken (buttermilk marinated) with mashed potatoes and gravy Osso Buco with capers, olives and gremolata Pizza cooked in a wood burning oven with carmelized onion, chevre and sun dried tomato Eggplant Parmesan Steak Tartare with all of the fixins

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