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Great Menu Ideas for the Professional Kitchen.MENU BOOSTER - Volume 2.The Menu Planning Assistant for the Professional Chef, Commercial Kitchen and Serious Home Entertainer.This is not a cookery or Recipe Book. 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. This is a collation of menu inclusions that may help in a professional kitchen during menu planning. It is a massive selection of dishes taken from menus from around the world and is designed to assist in the formulation of an interesting set of dishes to offer your clients.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. SamplesRoasted Eggplant Pate with Eggplant, Olive Tapenade, Grilled Crostini, Cold Pressed Olive Oil, Fig Chutney. Camembert - Caraway spread on Russian black bread. Roasted chestnut and mushroom soup.Rabbit and Pork Rillette with Candied Clementine and Brioche.Warm Goat Cheese & Leeks Tart - Baby arugula salad, pine nuts, mustard vinaigrette.Char Grilled Octopus - piquillo peppers, baby romaine, enoki mushrooms, crispy capers, basil vinaigrette.Grilled Hearts of Palm - Tomatoes, Arugula, Avocado Aioli, Basil, Red Wine Vinaigrette. Char