Mixed Drinks with Wine and Sekt

• 150 Gramm Wildkräuter
• 4 EL Olivenöl
• 2 EL Balsamessig
• 8 Stück Wildentenbrüste (a 100g)
• 2 EL Sonnenblumenöl
• 4 EL Honig
• 1 EL Thymian
• 200 Gramm Steinpilze
• 20 gekochte Maronen
• 100 ml Apfelsaft
• 2 El Zucker
• nach Belieben Salz & Pfeffer

Clean, wash and pat dry the wild herbs. Marinate with olive oil and balsamic vinegar and season with salt and pepper.

Preheat the oven to 220°C top and bottom heat. Season the wild duck breasts with salt and pepper, sear on the meat side in a pan with sunflower oil and cook in the preheated oven for about 8 minutes on the skin side. Remove the duck breast, brush the skin side with honey and thyme and roast for another 2 minutes on a high heat until crispy.

Clean the porcini mushrooms and cut into slices. Fry in a pan in oil on both sides, remove and keep warm. Caramelise the sugar in the pan, deglaze with the apple juice and simmer until the caramel has dissolved. Add the chestnuts and add a little more apple juice if necessary.

• Pinot Blanc (trocken)
• Gutedel (trocken)

• 500 ml Weißwein (Spätlese)
• 500 ml Geflügelbrühe
• 350 ml Sahne
• 30 Gramm Zwiebeln
• 30 Gramm Weißes vom Lauch
• 30 Gramm Sellerie
• 30 Gramm Karotten
• 30 Gramm Butter
• 180 Gramm Mehl
• 2 Lorbeerblätter
• 1 EL Butterschmalz
• 4 Scheiben Weißbrot
• Nach Belieben Zucker, Muskat, Zimt, Salz

Sauté the vegetables in butter until lightly browned, dust with flour and then add the vegetable stock, wine and 250 ml cream. Add the spices and simmer for approx. 15 minutes.

Remove the crusts from the slices of white bread and cut into 1 cm cubes. Fry in hot clarified butter until golden brown and season with cinnamon, whip the remaining cream until stiff.

<p> Strain the soup and flavour with nutmeg and salt.

Pour into deep plates, garnish with whipped cream and the cinnamon crusts.

• Müller-Thurgau (trocken)
• Silvaner (trocken)

• 2 Stück Eigelb
• 60 ml Ziegenmilch
• 500 Gramm weiße Kuvertüre
• 125 ml Sahne
• Abrieb und Saft einer halben Orange
• 2 cl Tresterbrand
• 8 Blatt Minze
• 125 Gramm Mehl
• 50 Gramm Zucker
• 70 Gramm Butter
• 2 Eier
• 1 Messerspitze Backpulver
• 1/2 EL Lavendelzucker
• 175 ml Milch

Semi-frozen goat's milk: Beat the egg yolks and goat's milk in a bowl over a hot bain-marie until creamy. Remove from the bain-marie and beat the cream until cold. Flavour with the zest of the orange and the marc brandy.

Liquefy the couverture in a bain-marie and stir into the lukewarm egg mixture. Whip the cream until stiff and carefully fold in. Line a parfait tin (triangular or gutter shape) with cling film. Pour in the mixture and smooth out. Cover well with cling film and leave to freeze in the freezer for at least 8 hours.

About 20 minutes before serving, remove the mould from the freezer and turn the parfait out of the mould. Remove the foil and cut the semi-frozen parfait into 8 slices.

<p>Lavender wafers: Lightly mash the butter in a mixing bowl with a fork. Add the sugar and stir a little. Add half of the milk, the lavender sugar and the baking powder. Stir in the eggs and finally the rest of the milk. Mix everything well with a hand mixer for about 2 minutes to create a homogeneous, slightly liquid mixture. Bake the batter in batches in a waffle iron until golden brown.</p

<p>Arrange 2 slices of semifreddo on each waffle on a flat plate and decorate with mint leaves.

• Riesling (halbtrocken & feinherb)

• 1 ganzes Huhn
• 0,4 Liter Riesling
• 0,2 Liter Sahne
• 1 kl. Glas Cognac
• 2 Stück Schalotten
• 1 Stück Knoblauchzehe
• 1 Stück Eigelb
• 1/2 Bund Petersilie
• 1 EL Mehl
• 50 Gramm Butter
• 1 EL Olivenöl
• nach Belieben Salz & Pfeffer

Carve the chicken. Heat approx. 50 g butter with 2 tbsp olive oil in a large frying pan and fry the chicken pieces until light brown (without the lid). Season lightly with salt.

Finely chop the shallots, peel and finely chop the garlic. Chop the parsley and add everything to the meat. Sauté briefly with the pan closed. Pour the cognac over the meat and light it (flambé). Deglaze with 1/3 litre of Riesling and leave to simmer for half an hour over a low heat. If necessary, add a little more wine and simmer for a further 10 minutes.

Remove the chicken pieces and keep warm for a short time. Mix 1 tbsp of flour with 1 egg yolk and the cream and whisk into the sauce. Flavour with salt and pepper. Return the chicken pieces to the pan. Serve immediately.

This goes well with tagliatelle.

Variant:Fry 150 g fresh mushrooms in 50 g butter and add.

• Riesling (trocken)