 Poster: A snowHead
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It never ceases to amaze me the outrageous sums some mountain establishments charge for a Tartiflette, which whilst delicious, lets face is it possibly one of the cheapest dishes to prepare with nowt more than potatoes, onions, cream, lardoons and cheese. I reckon for 6-7 quid, even in Waitrose, I could buy enough ingredients to make a Tartiflette to serve 4, so who knows how cheap they can buy it in catering quantities in France. That said, I do love a good Tartiflette, even if it isn’t traditional.
Rules:
Quiet simple really. Find the most expensive tartiflette of the 2010 season, and post the details here.
1. You must have actually ordered/eaten it.
2. Post the details, where/when/how good or bad !
3. Attach of the photo of the menu !
4. for bonus points post a photo of you eating it, or if you’re shy just a photo of the served dish.
The prize ?
Naff all. Well other than snowheads fame and the kudos of knowing you’re a gentleman/lady of distinction and can casually afford the worlds most expensive Tartiflette…
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Gazzza, Why would any of us want to actually order it, if we feel it is likely to be the most expensive around?
Unless, of course, everything else in the restaurant is similarly expensive and/or it looks like a "superior" dish.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I plan to make a Tartiflette for my tea tonight, coincidentally.
Tell you what, you can have it for £50.
Do I win?
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paulio, nope - mines £55
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Not quite a tartiflette, more a tartiflette pizza. In Tignes last week a Pizza Savoyard (Pizza base with about 1kg of potatoes, 1kg of cheese and a little ham) was very reasonably priced at less than 10 euros. Far too much to eat for lunch though and skiing after it was a little laboured.
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Colin B, it's given me indigestion just reading that! 
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After seeing and smelling my mate spewing last year after a rather rich tartiflette i don't think I'll be entering this competition. Is there a worse food to have when you are going to be sick?
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Gazzza, Got a 14.80 euro from season 08/09 in the Blache Murree in Les Arcs (above the route between the Transarc Mid-station and Peisey-Vallandry)
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I'm sure that would be cheap in comparison to some places!!!
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Is £15 quite a lot for a tartiflette?
Well, if you imagine dragging every potato up the top of a mountain. And then apply a 1.5 exchange rate (to be fair to the French as it's not their fault our tinpot Government has deflated our currency), then a tenner for lunch in a spectacular climate, eaten indoors, probably waiter served, compares VERY favourably with £6 or £7 spent in Pret on a tasteless sandwich, a packet of crips, a bottle of water and a fruit salad to prove you're being healthy...
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I have a circle of Reblochon sitting in the fridge waiting for a suitable time over christmas to cook it.
Love a good bit of the classic dish.
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Christopher, try eating it without cooking it first. MUCH better.
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Hurtle, ahhh I brought two and have already devoured one.
One of the best days of the summer was spent above Verbier having brought Reblochon, Jambon de Montagne et du pain in Argentiere (Chamonix) and absolutely devouring the stuff. It was fantastic.
I like it in both forms.
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You know it makes sense.
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It is not a traditional dish (though based to a considerable degree on another regional dish called Péla), and was, in fact, invented and launched only in the 1980s by the Reblochon trade union in an attempt to increase sales of the cheese
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from wikipedia so it must be true 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| alex_heney wrote: |
| Gazzza, Why would any of us want to actually order it, if we feel it is likely to be the most expensive around? |
Dunno, but it wiuld be too easy just to spot an overpriced Tartiflette on the menu, so figured it was a sensible rule.
Besides, only by tasting said overpriced tartiflette and telling us all about it will we know if it was worth it. Is a 15 euro tartiflette better than a 10 euro tartiflette??
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Poster: A snowHead
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| paulio wrote: |
I plan to make a Tartiflette for my tea tonight, coincidentally.
Tell you what, you can have it for £50.
Do I win? |
Only if you post a photo of you troughing it, and have it published on an official menu 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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First photo award to Bertie Basset. My taste buds are salivating just looking at that savoyard menu board, even if I can't read whats on it.
I can almost smell the smoky burning of the reblochon !
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Mine wasn't worth £50 in the end.
£40 tops.
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[goggles @ £130] Why would anyone pay stupid money for tartiflette when you get more or less the same by sandwiching some cheese triangles between a few layers of plain crisps? [/goggles @ £130]
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Haha.
Not plain crisps though. Technically, you would need to combine layers of cheese and onion (or spring onion flavour if they still make those ?), smoky bacon and a sour cream pringle.
And going by the same theme assumedly served with a ribena instead of a cabernet sauvignon ?
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Ok, £38, but that's my final offer.
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youspurs1, Gazzza, LMAO 
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"colossal" - good adjective when used with tartiflette !
19 euro's thats a good effort. Wonder if anyone can break the 20 euro barrier ?
That place looks nice. The herb crusted rack of lamb that flashes up on the home page is making me drool, even though I'm stuffed from dinner and port n stilton.
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The place to the skiers left right on the piste in Tignes Le Brevieres sells it at €20 a pop with a green salad I seem to recal.
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These prices don't look particularly outrageous. It costs me about 12€ to make tartiflette for three/four (more like two restaurant servings), assuming proper Reblochon and not the cheapo 'cheese for tartiflette'. If you're paying 20€ for it in a mountain restaurant, the mark-up on it sounds about the same as it is on anything else.
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the cheese is the expensive bit of the recipe. I paid £8 for the cheese alone in december in manchester!!!
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It is £5 a lump of Reblochon in Waitrose. I've still got one sitting in my fridge, which will be used for Tartiflette over the festive period. I would have thought that would serve two people.
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You know it makes sense.
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£7 in Booths last time I bought a Reblochon, always takes the cheese monger back a bit. There was an odd ready made thing in the chilled cabinet, it said Tartiflette, but then said 'cheddar' on the pasckaging and it seemed to have piecrust ! Haven't seen it recentl.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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10E50 in Le Grand Bornand this lunchtime and very nice it was too with a big fresh salad that actually tasted of something.
I know that's not going to win and I wouldn't have bothered posting it but I'm bored (in a lull while the wives bath the kids but sense it would be unacceptable to nip out for a beer)
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Poster: A snowHead
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| Higs wrote: |
| in a lull while the wives bath the kids |
How many wives do you have?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| maggi wrote: |
| Higs wrote: |
| in a lull while the wives bath the kids |
How many wives do you have? |
enough.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Super Eagle - my local Asda sells Reblechon, don't know if you have one nearby? It had a 'new' sticker on it and that was about 3 months ago.
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Super Eagle, you're doing it wrong. It's off-the-shelf in literally all supermarkets, for a couple of quid.
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I feel your pain, though I only have 3 weeks till I'll be poping into my favorite restaraunt in Courchevel 1650 for Tartiflette. Hopefully I'll catch it when its on the plat du jour as its only about 12 euros with a side salad and a dessert as opposed to the usual 16/17 euros for the main course alone.
I've only made Tartiflette at home once, and it was delicous, though it did stink the house out with that smoky burnt cheese sort of smell. I think our local waitrose stocks it, and every now and again the French market visits town and you can pay over the odds for French fayre
If you're despereate you can always get reblochon delivered....
http://www.teddingtoncheese.co.uk/acatalog/index.html
Minimum order is 20 quid though so you'd have to buy a few whole reblochon or get some other cheeses as well.
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| Lizzard wrote: |
| These prices don't look particularly outrageous. It costs me about 12€ to make tartiflette for three/four (more like two restaurant servings), assuming proper Reblochon and not the cheapo 'cheese for tartiflette'. If you're paying 20€ for it in a mountain restaurant, the mark-up on it sounds about the same as it is on anything else. |
i made tartflette for my in-laws in Vancouver and the ingredients cost at least CAD90. lord knows how long I took traipsing around "specialty" shops to find all the stuff and how much petrol I used. they all liked it though
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FAQ
Hubby hates it so I never get chance to indulge 
