Lotois Feast!

We had been thinking of taking some of our summer visitors to the local Catering College for a meal, but the visitors and the college academic schedule never coincided, so, yesterday evening Sue and I went by ourselves.  We think that they put on something special on a Friday night and we weren't disappointed.

The meal was themed around the gastronomy of the Lot and there were a number of producers there to be on hand to talk about their wares; a vintner, cheese producer, Foie-gras and Ducks, etc.
 Having chosen a small 50cl bottle of a nice cahors wine (I was driving home after all!)...

...we commenced with a small plate of Mise en Bouche.

Duck hearts in a wine sauce, a mushroom 'ball' and a small tartlet.
This was followed by a fabulous plate of two 'rolls' made of filo pastry filled with goats cheese and tomato confit.

The next course was some sauteed Foie-gras with some wonderful pears poached in a safron sauce.  It was covered in 'foam' ...it had a lovely flavour but unfortunately it does look like cat vomit.  However we ate it with our eyes closed.

We then moved on to the main event of the evening with Flambeed tournedos of Duck .


Our waiter didn't set light to anything, didn't spill anything ...boy done good!

We had managed to save some wine for the next course, the cheese!  We were offered 3 types of goats cheese, although we only partook of two.

And so the puddings!!!
It was a buffet of desserts and we had to go up to choose what we wanted and then allow our waiter to serve it. (the 'chef' was there only to describe the huge selection.)

After all of this food, coffee was essential ...but we'd still not finished.  Coffee arrived with little sweet pastries.(mignardises)

And all for 27 euros!!!!!!!!

We had a wonderful evening, especially as we could watch the other diners and the students.  It was fascinating to observe how some students just had it ... confidence, character, whatever you want to call it.