Mortar Pestle Cooking Sample Menu
Chef Andreya Nightingale
Mortar Pestle Cooking was established with the goal of bringing thoughtfully prepared food and wine to your dinner table. Andreya is known for expressing the mood of the season through simple and beautiful ingredients that create memorable meals designed specifically for you. Inquire about private cooking and wine classes.
Whimsey Hour
- Juniper Spritz with smoked salmon rillette, crostini, veggie crudité, and roasted walnuts platter
Dinner
- Garden Greens with creamy miso-cucumber dressing and shaved little beets
- Ratatouille with Halibut bathed in butter
- Crispy Skin Duck Breast with vadouvan-spiced kabocha squash purée and grilled brassicas
- Pavlova beneath figs drizzled with buckwheat honey and dusted with hazelnut crumbles
Whimsey Hour
- Bubbles with amaro cherries and cardamom bitters, shaved veggie and turmeric hummus tartinetttes, persimmon gazpacho shooters with chili oil, and fish crudo canapés
Dinner
- Arugula Salad with Burrata, Apple Hill Apples, and lemon-thyme vinaigrette
- Eggplant Ravioli with toasted pine nuts, brown butter sauce, fir tips, and shaved pecorino
- Juniper Smoked Bavette Steak with roasted maitake mushrooms, potato-parsnip purée, and pan sauce
- Poached Pear and Chocolate Tart with rosemary and orange whipped cream
Whimsey Hour
- Hummus Platter – turmeric hummus, roasted beet dip, grilled flatbread, marinated olives, roasted almonds, veggie crudité
Dinner
- Radicchio Salad with Citrus-Mustard Vinaigrette, grated Parmigiano-Reggiano, and toasted Walnuts
- Roasted Brussels Sprouts with castelvetrano olives and preserved lemons
- Braised Pork Shoulder with creamy truffle brie polenta and braising jus
- Sourdough Rolls for the Table
- Caramel Apple Cake with Vanilla Whipped Cream