Escalope With Cream and Asparagus ©

Once upon a time there was the most wonderful restaurant in Athens, in a beautiful Neo Classic building called Balthazar!

Under the trees in their beautifully cool garden, one savoured a unique Cuisine……..There were many places like this, once upon a time, but this was different, because it was based on French Cuisine, incorporating a life time of recipes from travels all over the world.

The restaurant’s name is now the title of a cookery book. I came across it long after it was published, exhibited in my butcher’s shop and the name caught my eye……What joy, surely this could not be a cookery book with all the recipes from that wonderful restaurant long ago……..

We loved the food at Balthazar so much, that  when one day it was no more, I tried to recreate the recipes and now I am even more thrilled, because I have the original recipes…