Unfortunately, this may be the last instance of an extraordinary annual event: Yun-En Liu, the graduate student instigator, is graduating. (You’d think something could be done about that …)
Today’s menu:
Real Food
Breads
- 90% rye levain
- Vollkornbrot
- Black bread
- Black Pumpernickel
- Pissaladière
- Baguette
- Challah
- Sesame breadsticks
- Grissini
- Rosemary crackers
Charcuterie
- Loukaniko
- Saucisson sec
- Cacciatore
- Chorizo Rioja
- Piccante salami
- Garlic and black pepper salami
- Wild boar salami
Cheeses and bread add-ons
- Blue 61
- Bonrus
- Black pepper d’affinois
- Robiola
- Manchego
- Truffle honey
- Quince paste
Appetizers
- Spiced cocktail nuts v1 (thyme, rosemary, cayenne)
- Spiced cocktail nuts v2 (curry, cinnamon, garlic, nutmeg)
- Spring vegetable salad
- Seafood mousse
- Salmon and crab sushi rolls
- Eggplant bruschetta and goat cheese
- Crackers with herbed Boursin cheese
- White bean, prosciutto, and horseradish bruschetta
- Traditional bruschetta
- Tuscan anchovy crostini
- Mushrooms & caper crostini
- Scherrer’s tartare (Nicole)
- Belgian endive with herbed chevre
- Blue cheese-stuffed dates with prosciutto
Tea sandwiches
- Egg salad
- Cucumber
- Ham, brie and apple
Canapés
- Balsamic tomato and pesto canapés (vegan)
- Gravlax, mustard cream cheese, chives, and crispbread
- Chicken liver pâté, mustard butter, and olive
- Beef tenderloin, horseradish cream cheese, and capers
Quickbreads
- Savory scones (semolina, goat cheese, scallion, pine nut)
- Bacon-cheddar scones
- Savory muffins (black forest ham, gruyere, parsley, mustard)
- Cheese cookies
Vienoisserie
- Whole wheat croissants (ham and swiss, spinach and feta)
- Savory kugelhopf (pancetta, jarlsberg swiss, parsley, walnut)
Tarts
- Tarte à l’oignon
- Quiche à la bière
- Quiche (with red chard)
- Mushroom tart (white, portabello, shittake, morel, porcini, oyster)
Desserts
Petit-fours
- Orange-pecan biscotti
- Chocolate biscotti
- Macaron (chocolate mousse and berries)
- Macaron (grapefruit, mousseline, ginger confit)
- M&M cookies
- Kesar Peda (indian saffron cookies) (Vegan) (GF)
- Chocolate-raspberry petit fours
Breads
- Stollen
Quickbreads
- Banana-date tea cake
- Almond-lemon tea cake
- Zucchini and orange marmalade tea cake
- Pumpkin teacake
- Pear caramel bread
- Pain d’épices
- Steamed gingerbread pudding (with hard bourbon sauce)
- Lebkuchen
Vienoisserie
- Brioche sucrée à tête
- Strawberry Brioche
- Croissants (Praline S, date lunettes)
- Panettone (raisin, currant, orange confit, lemon confit)
- Gibassier (orange confit, orange blossom water, anise seed)
- Colomba di pasqua
Tarts
- Apple nougat tart
- Lemon cream tart
- Rhubarb-hazelnut crumble tart
- Raspberry-hazelnut tart
- Wild blueberry tart
- Linzertorte
Cakes
- Raspberry white chocolate mousse
- Blackberry lemon mousse
- Black forest
- Orange and chocolate sacher
Confections
- Matcha and pistachio truffles
- Glenlivit and dacquoise truffles
- Sake and kinako truffles
- Framboise truffles
- Duchesse (hazelnut gianduja, almond, pistachio, orange confit)
- Sesame squares (sesame gianduja, sesame seed croquant)
- Apricot honey nut (apricot, pine nut, almond, pistachio)
- Praline meltaway
- Nougat torrone (almond)
- Nougat montelimar (pear, apricot, cherry)
- New-world nougat (cocoa nib, papaya, pepita)
- Leaf croquant (caramel, almond)
- Pecan chipotle brittle
- Sesame brittle
- Walnut brittle
- Sesame thins (dark chocolate, white and black sesame seeds)
- Peanut butter honeycomb
- Birdfood (popcorn, almond, cashew, pecan, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, caramel)
- Chocolate fudge (frappe, cherry, hazelnut)
- Chocolate fudge (frappe, shredded coconut, macadamia nut)
- Peanut fudge
- Maple fudge (walnut)
- Pillow mints (peppermint)
- Orange agar slices
- Lemon agar slices
- Lime agar slices
- Blackberry pâte de fruit
- Guava pâte de fruit
- Strawberry pâte de fruit
- Turkish delight (rosewater, pistachio)
- Turkish delight (cashew, cardamom)
- Cocomel (coconut, caramel)
- Caraschmallow (marshmallow, caramel, crisped rice)
- Espresso caramel crunch (coffee caramel, hazelnut gianduja, sponge candy)
- Kitchen sink (pretzel, cranberry, peanut, caramel, peanut butter gianduja)
- Habano (mango-lime ganache, habanero ganache)
- Meringue antoinette (hazelnut gianduja, espresso meringue)
- Mint madness (mint meltaway, white chocolate meltaway, peppermint flake)
- Morello (cherry jelly, kirsch ganache)
- Passion hazelnut (granulated hazelnut gianduja, passionfruit ganache)
- Peanut butter goodness (peanut butter nougat, peanut caramel)
- Salt and pepper (salted caramel, pepper ganache)
- Sol food (sundried tomato jelly, lemon thyme-balsamic ganache)
- Strawberry temptress (almond croquant, nougat, strawberry jelly)