The day of Ryan's big 7 course meal at Le Cordon Bleu!
I was beyond excited to eat a scrumdilliumptious meal.
-Rhonda and I got to be ryans plus 2-
The only problem was waking up at 4am to get down to tukwila.
The night before I could not fall asleep until 11pm (figures, right?)
Luckily, starbucks was open.
Vanilla Latte please!
It was a lot of fun to play "lets spy on ryan in the kitchen".
Apparently Ryan used to be a vegetarian.
Being at cooking school really opened his eyes to new things (crazy, wild things)
He will now eat burgers with me :)
Oh, and try to get me to eat grasshoppers.
No thank you!
Now to the Menu!
To start off the morning "dinner" was an amuse-bouche.
A bite size, it was!
Deviled Quail Egg
Oh that was DElightful!
I was almost too scared to eat it because it was so darn cute.
I shoved that baby egg down my little esophagus.
Awww, sad, I wanted another one.
I guess I could have taken the egg from next door.
The lady next to me must have been on a diet (or EXTREMELY picky) because she would not even touch her food or look at it actually.
Pike Place Brewery Dry Wit White Ale Steamed Shell Fish
I absolutely love mussels, but after going to Arnies for dinner last month I was a little apprehensive.
What would have happened at Arnies that would cause such fear?
Well the chef had forgotten to de-beard a couple of mussels...and lets say I got a mouth full of Poop tasting mussel.
Thankfully, the mussels that were prepared today were beard free and did not taste like the uncleaned toilet.
Oh my goodness, we cannot forget the big shrimp!
I had to snap his little head off!
I can't believe that I decapitated him :(
I hate looking at the face of my meal before I devour it.
Oh well, yum num num
Focacia bread is delish!
Especially when it is covered in the special sauce.
There were bacon bits too! You know how much I LOVE BACON!
Red & Golden Beet Salad
For the record, I do not like beets.
The reasoning comes from my siblings who had to suffer through beet jello, with a mayonaise topping.
The thought of beet jello brought a vomit taste to my mouth.
But, being the strong food lover that I am, I pushed through and tried to give this dish a chance.
If this dish did not have the feta cream (with yummy pistachios), it would have been a totally different experience.
Everything complimented each other very well (amazingly enough).
The beats were iffy (the goldens were sweet and the reds were bitter blah)
Chilled English Pea Soup
Hehe, when I first saw this I was like "ummm, wheres the soup?"
And then they brought the pitchers.
I think I cried, because I was hoping for a warm soup, seeing that the room was like 45 degree fahrenheit.
I should have remembered reading "chilled pea soup"...
Besides being taken back by the temperature of the dish, I was ultimately in love with the crab.
I usually hate crab (only because we eat it so often).
Thats all we would eat at the beach house. Crab cakes. Crab in da chowder. Crab in with da noodles. Crab Crab Crab.
Luckily, this was a little different.
Oh truffle oil is the bomb!
Charles Smith Kung Fu Girl Riesling & D'Anjou Pear Sorbet
Now this was a party in my mouth.
Every scoop of sorbet would melt in my mouth.
I was literally frozen after this course, but I was happy to be frozen.
Sweet sorbet of loveliness!
Bordeaux Braised Osso Buco
Oh snap this is my very first veal dish.
Mary had a little calf, little calf...
It was super tender and came right off of the bone quite nicely.
My favorite part had to be the purple potatoes,
It reminded me of Dr. Seuss. (what a good man)
And those onions. Magnifique! Sweet goodness in my belly.
Ryan made me eat the marrow out of the bone.
The thought creeped me out, but I did it so he would be proud of me.
Tasted like meaty potatoes.
Ok I did it.
I think I will stick to the adult cow and leave the babies alone.
Deconstructed Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp
I loved the pop rock surprise.
With every bite you could hear a *pop* *pop*
Oh, it was quite fun.
And you cannot go wrong with lemon gelato.
The oatmeal cookie was hard to break with my knife, but it was still good good.
Oh buddy...if only I could eat this good every day. But then again, I would be a plump little chica.
But a HAPPY CHICA :)
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