Date achieved:
Saturday 6th June 2020
Where?
Home
Why is this experience on the Challenge List?
This was something that I would have to say I associate with a high-class fancy restaurant, eating a 10-course meal it just seems like it would be an unfinishable meal. Instead of attending one of these restaurants, I decided I wanted to attempt to cook the 10 courses for myself.
Description:
The week that I decided to make the 10-course meal I did a bit of research into what makes up the meals and found this, Webrestaurantstore was able to help with the structure and ideas for the courses.
After that, I just had to decide on what to make and plan the ingredients that I needed to buy. The morning doing the 10-course meal, I ran around finding all the ingredients, most of which I could find at my local independent supermarket. Afterwards, I went to my local butcher and found the porterhouse steak, which I just asked for them to be thinly sliced (as we didn’t want to fill up on the main too much).
The day got away from me, I didn’t end up starting to cooking all the food until 5:30 pm, I am very impressed that I managed to get the first course served at 6:15 pm.
Course one – Hors d’oeuvres
Fruit salad skewers with grapes, watermelon, banana, strawberries, apple and raspberries
Course two – Amuse-bouche
Homemade sweet potato and potato chips with goats cheese and hommus dip
Course three – Soup
Campbell’s country ladle – creamy chicken
Course four – Appetizer
Honeyed sweet potato
Course five – Salad
Greek salad with cucumber, tomato, purple onion, green capsicum and feta
Course six – Palate cleanser
Homegrown and homemade lemonade
Course seven – Main course
Porterhouse steak with rosemary garnish and roasted potato with rosemary
Course eight – Cheese course
Wafer crackers original and black sesame with camembert, brie, cheddar and mozzarella
Course nine – Dessert
Crème brûlée
Course ten- Mignardise
Lindt chocolate – caramel sea salt and Guylian chocolate shells with chocolate garnish
The food was incredible, I will admit although we started eating at a decent time we didn’t finish the last course until 10:30 pm because we all were so full!
Just for the record, I had every intention to cook a soup but when I found it takes eight hours to make, I didn’t have the time for that, unfortunately. Also for the Crème brûlée, someone asked if they could make something for the night and that was their choice, I did sprinkle the sugar coating on top and melt it, yum!!
Would I do it again?
I have to say I loved doing all of the courses with the preparation, cooking and presenting. In all honesty, 10-courses was a LOT of food because it was all so filling (even in small quantities). If I was going to do a large course meal again I would probably only prepare 6 to 8 courses, then it would be easier to make and everyone can enjoy the food more gradually.
Highlight:
This video sums up how satisfying to eat the Crème brûlée was… It was so delicious!!
Getting to try a porterhouse steak for the first time, it is worth the extra money for a bit of a treat!
Having great company whilst trying new foods it doesn’t get much better than that.
Supporting locals by purchasing from my local butcher and local independent supermarket.
In a massive effort, we ate all the food (only the Greek salad was saved for the next day) and made sure that there was no wastage.
Cost:
All together I paid $81 for the entire meal and it served three people.
For three porterhouse steaks, it was $17.50 and the rest was $63.50.
Some of the items I already had at home were; some of the cheeses, lemons (as I have a lemon tree) and the sweet potato.
If you were to buy everything from it would be under $100.
Further information:
You really could cook anything, something to remember is that keeping the course sizes to a small quantity then you can fit everything in.
Other than that just have fun, playing around with food choices and who knows what you may create in the process.