Can anyone help me translate this so it sounds very appealing in English, my French is almost non-existent:

Une déclinaison de légumes d’hiver accompagnés d’une cassolette de risotto à la truffe noire

All I get (Babel Fisch) is:
variation on winter vegetables
black truffle risotto in a caserolle dish

I want it to sound as appealing as possible. Thanks.

That's actually a very decent bit of machine translation (apart from the casserole dish which sounds too big compared at a "cassolette").

I used to be a freelance translator and, although it was not my field at all, occasionally translated menus rom French to English for a local restaurant as a favour. I always hated doing it... English just doesn't seem to do justice to these things, which maybe explains why so much French is used in "English" menus.

Possibly also I wasn't a very good menu translator

Thanks. Yes, it does sound more elegant in French! I'll try to think of something else for the 'casserole dish'.

Why not just 'black truffle risotto'? (ie, omit any mention of the casserole dish)

A cascade of winter vegetable garnished with a black truffle risotto cassolette.

Note that cassolette, is an appropriate culinary term in English.

Sorry, I just noticed the rest of your post ... so, how about 'A selection of winter vegetables, served with black truffle risotto' or, if you want to sound more fancy, 'A medley of winter vegetables, served with black truffle risotto'

It is known (different spelling though, i think?), but is known for being a specific dish with duck and beans, so i suggest it isn't used for something more general.

I like the medley version of NS

Nope.... you're missing the "u"
- a cassoulet : a French dish from the Languedoc (Toulouse) made of duck and beans (masc)
- a cassolette : small ovenproof dish (fem)

Thanks everyone. I have to get this off tonight to the printers ... now I know a little more French ... but I doubt I'll ever be able to pronounce it

No, gotcha, thats why i said it had a different spelling.....i meant that if you use it on an English menu, the former is much better known than the latter, i think, so may cause confusion