Washington State Morels
Fresh Washington State morel mushrooms being sauteed as part of the oil preserving process. These beauties will end up as garnish for our potato-leeks soup, currently on the menu at Café Presse. Yum!
Leave a CommentFresh Washington State morel mushrooms being sauteed as part of the oil preserving process. These beauties will end up as garnish for our potato-leeks soup, currently on the menu at Café Presse. Yum!
Leave a CommentHere at Café Presse, we are busy getting ready for the debut of our new summer menu that starts Wednesday June 26th!
Leave a CommentOur Quarterly Chef’s Dinner took place at Cafe Presse last evening and frankly it was a blast. The theme for February’s dinner was “Celebrate Sparkles” and it offered a great opportunity both to try some of the lesser-known sparking wine of the French countryside and to also see how well these wines pair with food …
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Leave a CommentPureed soup of roasted butternut squash and honeycrisp apples, garnished with chèvre crème fraîche. Miam Maim!
Leave a CommentTuesday February 26, 2019 Menu Les amuse bouches Mimolette and bacon gougères warm from the oven Black cod tartare, pink grapefruit, chervil, shallots on house-made buckwheat baguette ~ Potage aux légumes d’hiver et son consommé aux crevettes Shellfish consommé with leeks, spinach and celery root, smoked prawns and Brittany sea-salt butter ~ Salmis de canard …
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Leave a CommentCafe Presse chef de cuisine James O’Hern unveiled his new menu for Spring 2018 today with the traditional staff tasting. The staff tasting is sort of a cross between a dinner party and a training class on all the details of the new menu; food, friends and lots of talk about the dishes. Here are …
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Leave a CommentThis was the dish we served at the 2017 Bailey Boushay House Chef’s Dinner. A good choices for either a warm, filling first course or, with a green salad, a light but satisfying supper during the cold winter months. Serves 8
Leave a CommentToday’s special at Café Presse combines lovage from our own garden with morel mushrooms: Creamy potato-leek-lovage soup garnished with morel mushroom and Comté beignets For those not familiar with lovage, it is an herb that has a flavor similar to wild celery, more pungent and earthy than its domesticated cousin. The lovage for this soup …
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Leave a CommentThe new Fall menu started last Thursday at Café Presse with the traditional menu tasting for our staff. We were all excited for the flavors of Fall after such a long hot summer and to see again some of our old favorites return to the menu (like oysters on the half shell and Soupe a …
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