
thursday evening relax
This afternoon I helped a mate cooking a dinner for his girlfriend's birthday tomorrow (remember I was a cook to pay for my study). We rehearsed everything from entree (trio of oyster with salmon bonbon and sauted razor clams), mains (faisan á la brabanconne with parship purée) to desert (vanilla icecream with tarte tarin). He never cooks and we had lots of fun. All these courses look very complicated and spectacular but in fact are really easy to make. He will impress his girlfriend big time.
He got the pheasants from his father who hunted the birds himself. It is funny to realize how much implicit knowledge it takes to prepare good food correctly (like searching for bruises to remove buckshot grit and cutting produce in the easiest way).