EME2012 Dinners
EME conference dinners are always a great time to meet old and new faces and to discuss the challenges of our great hobby. This year there were two dinners. The Friday dinner featured separate delegates’ and partners’ prize draws, and Howard Long G6LVB talked to us about the journey of the Fun Cube Dongle from concept to full production via the kitchen table.
The main conference dinner was on Saturday. We were proud to have pioneering radio astronomer and Nobel Prize winner Professor Antony Hewish FRS for our end-of-conference dinner speaker.
Both dinners were served in the dining hall at Churchill College, Cambridge.
Photo by Zdenek Samek OK1DFC
The Friday Menu
- Smoked chicken salad with dressed leaves, celeriac & beetroot salsa
- Chargrilled beef fillet with a dauphinoise potato cake and roasted cherry tomatoes on the vine
- Glazed lemon tart with a raspberry coulis
The Saturday menu
- Scottish smoked salmon on lemon & dill cream cheese blinis finished with caviar & balsamic reduction
- Roasted rack of trimmed lamb with a redcurrant & rosemary stuffing & wild mushroom and port jus
- Sweetened blueberry & vanilla pannacotta
Friday vegetarian option
- Parsnip and butternut soup with parsnip crisps and fresh coriander,
- Tomato and red onion feta filled filo baskets with salsa verde
- Italian tiramisù
Saturday vegetarian option
- Roasted pine nut & crumbled stilton stuffed organic field mushroom with sweetened vine cherry tomatoes.
- Char grilled seasoned vegetable tian with baked mozzarella & rich tomato & basil jus
- Sweetened blueberry & vanilla pannacotta