Iceberg truffle!

Found this beauty under an oak tree, the perfume in the soil was superb and from the top I thought I’d found a truffle of around 200grams.  However it kept emerging from the soil like an iceberg, most of it was still well under ground, it weighed in at a massive 554grams!

This truffle found a home with Grossi Florentino in Melbourne.

Chicken breast demi Deuil, Creamy Truffle Sauce.

After a superb Fringe Food Festival dinner at Chateau Yering’s Eleonore’s Restaurant last night I felt inspired to attempt something extravagant. I was quite pleased with the results, a chicken breast cooked with truffle slices under the skin, after the Poulet demi Deuil style, a Creamy Perigord Truffle Sauce, and some cous cous to mop up the sauce.  The recipe said the sauce serves four, and it went onto three plates, I also suspect it would have looked more balanced on up to ten plates. Continue reading “Chicken breast demi Deuil, Creamy Truffle Sauce.”

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