While I was in California, I had a meal of a lifetime. My sister got a private chef to cook for family and close friends during a Thanksgiving lunch. They came around 11 to get the meal started so that they would be ready at 12:30 when the guests came. It was very interesting to watch them. They roasted the vegetables first, then started working on everything else. The sauces and extras were already made and they just had to add them.
The first course was a seared tuna, aoli sauces, and saffron and cheese breadsticks. It was a great way to start off the meal with something light, but flavorful. I love tuna, so I wish I could have had 10 more pieces of tuna. Next was tuile, lobster and crab on top of a seafood broth. This one had great textures and a good portion. The third course was two kinds of squash, pumpkin seed brittle with fish sauce. It is such a weird combination and I would never think of putting those together, but the fish sauce made everything come together. It is a sweet and tangy sauce that has been reduced. The fourth course was a beef wrapped in a crepe and tied with onion in a kind of white sauce. This one I didn't like as much because it was a little dry, but the sauce was amazing. It was sour and sweet and matched the beef well. The fifth course was completely vegan. It was a bed of mushroom with roasted vegetables, wonton crisps, tomatoes, and edible flowers. This one felt the most healthy because it didn't have a lot of salt added, which I liked. There was raw mushroom on it and it was better than expected. The sixth course was risotto with uni on top. Uni is a very acquired taste, so you either love it or hate it. I personally love it. It didn't really match the risotto and the risotto was overcooked, but I love uni. It was their most poorly cooked course, but it was super filling. The seventh course was medium rare lamb with carrots in lamb sauce. The meat was perfectly cooked and this one definitely had the most salt in it. Overall, it was very good but a tad salty. The eighth course was my least favorite. It was inventive, but I didn't like the flavor very much. It was beet tartare with a fried quail egg, cured egg yolk, and crackers. The cured egg yolk was a good concept, but way too salty for me. The tartare was okay, but it didn't have enough flavor attached to it. Lastly was cake. It was my sisters' boyfriends birthday, so the cake was to celebrate. It was a chocolate cake and it was amazing. It is probably one of my favorite cakes yet and I have eaten a lot of cake. This meal was very inventive, fun and I loved it all overall. There were a few things here and there, but no one is perfect. It was definitely an experience that I will never forget.
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