Okay - after 4 separate attempts to post Course Two - I give up. Apparently there is something wrong with the food I'm discussing and I am not able to post it.

Sad.

I guess all I can say is that I flavored it at the table with the three salts I mentioned earlier - including the 40 million year old Jurassic salt. You'll just have to guess what we ate, I guess.

To be honest, I'm already getting full by the time, and we have 7 more courses to go.

C'mon Mods!! What's the problem? Let her post food story -that's what the forum is for.

I've practically had my face glued to the screen trying to taste it all!

If there was anything sprinkled with "meshugenas" or some such, that's a no-no word as is peant sauce believe it or not. If you mention you wore shoes by Betsey Johnsn, or a Vera Wng outfit, those surnames are out too. Don't you dare bring up the first name of the US vice president. I won't swear by the last name of the current president, but I have noticed that sometimes, even "Gd" has been bleeped out on these forums -- which could make speeches by the president much more interesting... "A higher power if you believe in such may bless or offer such sentiments upon America as it exists in the agreed-upon present moment..."

All I can say apparently - is that it is a controversial item and it is verboten in certain places now.

It was scored beautifully, pan sauteed, and served with granola, yogurt, and a b@n@n@ gastrique. The brunoise on the nana's was so tiny I'm convinced it was actually done by ants....with tiny cutlery!

A friend of mine staged at the Laundry. His only job was the brunoise bell peppers into tiny perfect confetti for 8 hours. His index finger callus started to bleed...M. Keller can create those amazing dishes because he has no shortage of young culinary novices that pound his door to learn at his feet...

If I were to guess...I at first thought it was Foie Gras...but it isn't usually scored...so I'm going with some kind of baby animal...veal? Hmm...does that go with granola-yogurt gastrique though? Perhaps duck? So curious!

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Originally posted by tikkamasala:
All I can say apparently - is that it is a controversial item and it is verboten in certain places now.

It was scored beautifully, pan sauteed, and served with granola, yogurt, and a b@n@n@ gastrique. The brunoise on the nana's was so tiny I'm convinced it was actually done by ants....with tiny cutlery!

Bnana is a bad word?

Good Gd! After the age of 13, anybody giggles at a bnana being even remotely suggestive should really truly aspire to be much less stupid in life.

I couldn't agree with nina1970 more! "Une banane" is a food and this is a food board.

Meanwhile, keep the stories coming tikka! Make liberal use of those emoticons as needed...

Always hungry for more,
muse

muse I think the word meshugenas describes this adventure and the adventuress.This is meal not Harry Potter adventure.

Excuse me, Gagit?? Am I not qualified to talk about the meal I ate?? I apparently need something better than a culinary degree and a working catering business to qualify me for this type of writing??

Shall I pattern myself after you - since you are the only one qualified to write about food?

Get over yourself.

Gagit has an opinion.

In other news today:
Rachel Ray is still on TV for some unknown reason, Tom Cruise is the world's shortest messiah, and Donald Trump seems to be suffering from some sort of 'overcompensation' situation.

Just trying to say, the country has got bigger problems than Dolly Parton at an A-cup convention.

Please, continue on with the story....

This is a little off the wall, but I'm curious if other diners on this forum ever ask for "doggie" bags. I always do, even in fancy restaurants because I hate waste. Can anyone tell me what the restaurants think of people who take home the leftovers? Do they make fun of them? I am a light eater and I just can't finish everything on my plate. Would you ask for a doggie bag at The French Laundry?

Patticat -

To be honest - we were struggling by the time we got to course 9. The table next to us (a group of Exec's from the Four Seasons) had either 12 or 13 - and they were in pain!

They already forsee that you might not make it...so they give you the cutest little gift bag with all your mignardises (about a dozen chocolates and truffles and 2 stacks of shortbread cookies).

It took us 2 days to be hungry enough again to eat them.

thank you Muse.A meshugenas is a meshugenas.

Thank you so much for sharing Tikka--you should write for a food magazine.

and Gagit---I dont want to try your meatballs now.

your lost ginalee the meatballs will taste better than tikkas food magazine.

Gagit - in case you haven't noticed, you are the only one impressed with your recipes and articles. Nobody else is here complimenting you or asking you to write more - and yet you persist as if we've simply not yet perceived your greatness but if you talk long enough we'll somehow catch on. There is a name for that state of mind - it is: narcissism. It means you simply can't bear the thought that you are not perceived as the resident expert.

It also means you cannot perceive when you are being insulted. Muse was not complimenting you, Gagit. She was essentially trying to say that your opinion is your own - and not necessarily shared by everyone around you. A narcissist automatically believes they hold the majority opinion.

None of this will feel as it if pertains to you, gagit - because symptom #1 of a narcissist is not believing that they are actually as they have been described.

huh?