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Amuse Bouche
We started with this tasty little treat: A slice of cucumber topped with little bits of watermelon, a dollop of blue cheese and a little watercress. I think cucumber is pretty much the most foul vegetable and is nearly impossible to make it taste good, but this totally ruled. I guess because it mostly tasted like watermelon and blue cheese. And surprisingly, the delicate flavors of the cucumber and watermelon weren't masked by the strong blue cheese either.
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Crispy Pork Belly
Dannng. I took one bite of this and started crying my eyes out! Honestly, not because it was so good, although it was. I was crying because I had a root canal that morning, and was very carefully trying to only chew on the left side of my mouth. Unfortunately I bit down really hard on the right side where the root canal was, and I haven't experienced that much (physical) pain in years. After regrouping in the bathroom for 5 minutes, I returned to the rest of my pork belly. It tasted like bacon, but with a completely soft, melt-in-your-mouth texture. I could eat this every day if money and cholesterol weren't issues.
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Truffled Risotto
Hell YEAH! At long last, Jenny G ate some black truffles. 22 years in the making, right? This was extremely rich and decadent and I had a hard time eating all of it, tooth problems aside. But I suffered through it! Truffles taste like clean dirt and I can't believe that people pay thousands of dollars per pound for these things. I am so glad I finally got to try it, for real. Now I can really relate to real food critics, which brings me one step closer to my goal of one day being the restaurant critic for the NYT.
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Cherry Sorbet
This was a little pre-dessert course. It was pretty tasty, but half melted when it arrived and extremely hard to get out of the bowl.
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Chocolate Mousse with Passion Fruit Sauce
The Chocolate Mousse was encased in a hard chocolate shell, like a really fancy klondike bar. It was delicious, and the passion fruit sauce was the perfect tart balance to the rich chocolate. yummmmm. I should also add that my cell phone memory got full of pictures so that is why I have this crappy picture that Duane Reade totally cropped all funky so you can barely see the dessert that should be perfectly centered in the pic.
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Pastries
This is the plate of pretty pastries the pastry chef sent out at the end. Some of them were pretty weird. Ariana, her mom and I all wanted to try each one so we bit these already bite sized treats into thirds. The one that was like a peach gummy bear was my favorite. Sorry about the cropping again. Totally not my fault.
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Ariana's Birthday Picture
They put a candle on her plate! She got pana cotta. Angela got the pancetta and blue cheese dessert, which I unfortunately did not get a picture of. I am all about bacon/pancetta for dessert though. Look how pretty Ariana is!
2 comments:
very cool.
ive done something here to have you a few cents!
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