Spinach salad, blue cheese, figs and pear

Add some thinly sliced red onion for a crunch. 

With a dressing of balsamico and nut-oil

< Serve with for instance with a nice cheesy quiche lorraine

Smoked eel, cauliflower mousse

Fry 150 gr cauliflower softly in 25 gr butter. 

Add 100 ml chicken stock and boil softly till done. 

Add 50 ml cream, simmer for another 5 mins. In the meantime soak 2 gelatine leaves  in cold water.

Take the cauliflower from the heat and dissolve the gelatine. Then use the blender to liquidise.

Fry some Spanish ham in a dry pan. 

Liquidise some parsley with some olive-oil, don't forget a bit of salt to minimise the bitterness. 

Serve the cauliflower mousse in a ring of smoked eel.  

Or like this:

Red fruit salad with mascarpone

Mix 2 eggyolks and 100 gr sugar. Whisk and whisk and whisk again till the yellow becomes white. 

Mix with the contents of a 250 gr. tub of Mascarpone. Whisk till nice and smooth. 

Prepare a red fruit coulis with some creme de cassis. Serve as shown. 

Use a small kitchen burner to burn the mascarpone a bit