wow, ron blaauw! ★★

to be honest, i haven't heard of ron blaauw before... but wow... his food is amazing. he filled my tummy with heavenly food. let the pictures help me tell my food story.


this was the appetizer, made of cucumber and lemon grass... very thai-ish... and a perfect fresh start.


first dish, is this perfectly smoked salmon with a poached egg... it was presented with a glass cover filled with smoke... it smelled really nice and the presentation was... just... wow...


second dish, was a plate filled with seafood... really liked the shrimps... they tasted semi raw... loved it... everything was editable... even the scary looking black cocoon looking thing... the shrimps heads and the beautiful pearly looking shell.


third dish... at the left, the back looking block is beef (if i'm not mistaken)... can't recall what everything else is... but it tasted so well all together.


fourth dish... at the left, is beef with sauce made of liver. At the top is a pastry filled with soft meat. the white rounds are kohlrabi and pear (if i'm not mistaken). and at the right side... there is foam made out of horseradish and a caramelized hazelnut...

i forgot to take a picture of my first desert... it was a very thin cookie cone, filled with hazelnut cream. On top there was a scoop of orange sorbet coated with white chocolate and sprinkled with scrunched hazelnut on top... this desert has a little surprise at the end of the cone... it has small chocolate sprinkles, the sprinkles gave a sparkling (maybe not the right word, but i can't think of another word for it now) sensation. the sensation really brought me back to the time, when i was little... the sparkly/cracking chewing gum that i loved, when i was a kid...


second dessert... a carrot dessert... carrot icecream, foam made out of ginger sorbet and chocolate sauce. the carrot is actually made out of chocolate... i'm not sure what's inside the carrot though... (the little brown drops reminded me of hamster yogurt drops/candy... if you have owned hamsters, you'll probably know what i am talking about XD).


third dessert, is a coffee dessert, with baileys ^^ i'm not really a alcohol lover, but this was heavenly great...


after the desserts, we had some after snacks... the tea tasted a bit floraly... it was so nice... and the snacks in the box... the piece of sausage, was actually dried fruit (tasted like dried cranberries and dried raisins... or something alike)... the cheese, which i expected to be a piece of salty cheese, was actually a piece of cheesecake filling... and lastly the croquette ball (which we call bitterbal)... was caramel with nuts coating...


and after all the eating, we received ron blaauw's cooking books as a christmas present from our bosses... ^^ how nice...

are you hungry yet? XD

merry christmas (in advance, in case i don't blog again before christmas...) ^^