Great Menu Ideas for the Professional Kitchen.

Great Ideas for food lovers.

MENU BOOSTER - Volume 1.

The Menu Planning Assistant for the Professional Chef, Commercial Kitchen and Serious Home Entertainer.

Menu Planning Genius - Inspire and Innovate.

Chapters include; Breakfast Dishes, Hors d'oeuvres, Cocktail Foods, Sandwiches, Fish, Seafood, Shellfish, Dipping Sauces, Soups, Starters, Appetizers, Pasta, Salads, Main Dishes, The Carvery, Chicken Dishes, Vegetarian Choice, Vegetables, Potatoes, Wraps, Rolls and Desserts.

Samples

Caramelized Pear with Spicy Pecans and Virginia Cheddar Cheese on a Crostini.

Bruschetta with Herbed Goat Cheese, Oven Dried Tomatoes with Pesto.

White onion soup, truffle scented cream.

Home smoked duck breast, liver parfait, pomegranate and chicory.

Sauteed Blue Lobster with Champagne, Camus Artichokes and Spinach Ravioli.

Beetroot & Feta Cheese Salad, Cherry Tomatoes & Marinated Olives, Mint Yogurt Dressing.

Roasted Eggplant Sandwich with peperonata, arugula and shaved Parmesan on rosemary ciabatta bread.

Wild Alaskan Salmon - Pan seared and baked filet with jasmine rice and a mélange of Asian vegetables.

As you read through these pages for the first time you will notice that this is not a recipe book.

It is singularly designed and aimed at the professional kitchen, to stimulate and inspire ideas and innovation in menu creation and design.

For this reason it is important that you are made aware that this publication is almost exclusively suitable for the professional kitchen and the serious home entertainer.

Therefore it will prove almost useless to those with a minimal understanding of cooking, food ingredients and cooking methods and styles.

The menu items you will find within this publication have been collated over many years from an extensive collection of menus from around the world.

It is a culinary world tour which will offer the reader a 'gold mine' of potential menu inclusions from all levels of food outlets from high end, high intensity prep dishes with exotic, hard to find ingredients to the ultra-simple, quick and easy dishes.

This is what makes this publication so unique, it will aid catering on a budget or catering for an unlimited budget.

The menus themselves are from no specific genre of food but include a broad array of establishments including:

Fine Dining Restaurants;
Boardrooms;
Hotels;
Resorts;
Function Centre's;
Delicatessens;
Cafes;
Bistros;
Diners;
Country Clubs;
Cruise Ships;
Motels;
Steak Houses;
Sandwich Bars;
Pubs;
Private Clubs;
Resorts;
Fast Food Outlets;

Their purpose within this book is to aid those involved in menu creation, to inspire and hopefully to encourage innovation.

We have attempted to categorize the items for quick and easy reference but it must be pointed out that some items may belong in more than one section.

So, if you are seeking ideas for use as a starter or appetizer, then it would be prudent for the reader to also look through the fish and seafood sections as well as, for instance, the pasta section.

We have also attempted where possible to offer interpretations of similar dishes. An example of this would be Caesar Salad which has many forms based around the 'classical Caesar'.

It is our hope that this publication becomes a useful and much used text in your kitchen and we look forward to offering you more additions in the near future.

bon appétit