Wine table(s): Surprise menu

Logo mit Flasche und Text 'Trink Sport Gruppe'
Peter Heck
19. October 2024

On 18.11.2024, we met for a very special event as part of the Weintafel(n) – a surprise menu.

The task: Each participant brings 3 ingredients:

  • One with 250g weight
  • One with 150g weight
  • One with 50g weight

General ingredients such as pasta, potatoes, butter, milk, flour, sugar etc. are not included and were provided by our hosts Annette & Eiko.

All the ingredients we brought with us were then spread out on a table, which looked like this:

Varied food spread out on a table

Now the participants were drawn by lot into one of three groups – starter, main course and dessert. Then it went in turn – each group was allowed to take one ingredient from the table, then it was the next group’s turn and so on until the table was empty. Then it was time to prepare the food:

Man prepares food in a modern kitchen

Here is an overview of the dishes prepared by the individual teams:

Appetizers:

Dish with salad, crab salad and beet

First starter: Scrambled crab eggs on salt leaf and yellow/red beetroot with onions and goat’s cheese

Gourmet dish with vegetables and sausage on a gray plate

    Second starter: Chanterelles and porcini mushrooms with South Tyrolean speck and sausage

    Main courses

    Raw steak plate with side dishes on black crockery

    First main course: Venison capaccio with parmesan, rocket pesto and cranberries

    Finely prepared dinner on a gray plate

    Second main course: Cod on rocket pesto, vegetables with sprouts, carrots and yellow zucchini, braised Iberiico inner cheeks

    Dessert

    Varied dessert selection on a gray plate

    Gorgonzola and Zigen cheese with caramelized pear slices, honey and roasted walnuts, Kaiserschmarn with brandy plums and peanut/pistachio cookies.

    All in all, a super successful event where creativity was in demand. The unanimous opinion: you can’t eat better than this, even in a top restaurant!