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[venta]

Last night, leathellin and I pottered out to The Fox on Boars Hill for tea.

On the menu, we found:

Goats cheese and duck confit flaky pastry omelette

which I claimed was just a list of words, rather than an actual dish. Leathellin, braver than I, ordered it.

Or rather, she decided to have it, I went to the bar to place the order. At which point part of the mystery was cleared up - the person taking my order gently pointed out that it actually said galette, not omelette.

However, my main gripe with it wasn't the flaky-pastry-omelette aspect, it was the simultaneous duck and goats' cheese aspect. Individually, they're both lovely. But together ? It's just not right. Having stolen part of Leathellin's starter, I'm still not convinced it's right.


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And just no one mention doorkeys, OK ?

Comments

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

It's not a particularly appetising-sounding combination. Lots of salt and fat. If it had some cherries or the like in there, that could be OK...

[nalsa.livejournal.com]

Yep. Sour cherries, though. Not maraschinos.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Well, despite duck being quite a strong flavour, it was pretty much overpowered by the cheese. So maybe a lot less cheese might have helped, too.