"Monk's head." A drum of semihard Swiss Trappist cheese made with cow's milk, similar to Gruyère in flavour. It has a buttery ivory paste and a brownish rind. This was served to me at the Hostellerie Plaisance in St-Emilion using a circular cutter. The cheese was placed onto a central spindle and a handle attached to this spindle. As the handle was turned a cheese wire was pushed around the perimeter of the cheese. A series of frilly shavings of cheese appeared which looked almost like chanterelle mushrooms. (PDO).
Black boletus mushroom. Excellent to eat from August to October whether raw in salads or cooked or preserved and also freezes well.
A petit four made from meringue iced with chocolate butter cream and sprinkled with grated chocolate.
Black boletus mushroom. Excellent to eat from August to October whether raw in salads or cooked or preserved and also freezes well.
Capercaillie. Black cock. Wood grouse. This large, grouse-like game bird is found in coniferous woodland hills of Scandinavia and Baltic countries, Scotland, the former Yugoslavia and Central Europe with some in the Pyrenees. They are usually found on the floors of coniferous forests during summer and up in the trees in winter.
