CULINARY ARTIST: BRIANNE BURNELL
OVERALL STAR RATING: 4.69/5
FOOD EATERS: IAN, JESSE, ERIC
I was supposed to cook last week, I bought all of the ingredients, and then it was a snow storm and no one came. I had made fudge the night before, but in the end it didn't turn out, so I kind of got a redo on the dessert. The menu consisted of a pea parsley soup, which I was unsure about form the beginning but which ended up the winner of the night, sweet potato skins with chipotle chicken, and the redo dessert which was an incredible almond coffee cake. And i nailed it.
Jesse: "I need a redo for my parfait! Maybe I'll come back and make the perfect, something."
Brianne: "Jesse you can do that. I can help you!"
Jesse: "I'll go to like, a fucking farm. Lets all make mini soufflées! It's a soufflée off!"
STAR RATING: 4.93/5
I've never made or eaten chilled soup. I didn't know if anyone liked chilled soup, and I didn't know if using what some would consider "just a garnish" as such a large component of the dish was going to sit well with this group of boys. It turned out bright and fresh, salty, sweet... there were a ton of flavours, and it photographed beautifully. The ingredients were: one big onion, 4 cloves of garlic, a bag of peas, 2 cups of parsley leaves, 3 cups vegetable broth, coconut oil, lemon rind and lemon juice, olive oil, and some salt.
Ian: Star rating: 4.9
"When i found out the ingredients, I was very surprised. Each ingredient was very powerful, but all together, fantastic. I'm going to give it a 4.9. I enjoyed it was chilled. I haven't had that in a while."
Jesse: Star rating: 5
"I'm going to whisper my review to Eric."
Brianne: "Don't be mean to me. I'm playing Motion City Soundtrack. We're all like high school friends right now."
Jesse: "Imagine Notion City Soundtrack."
Jesse: "It's best BRO 10 out of 10."
Eric: "What is that out of 5"
Jesse: "6"
Brianne: "5, its a 5."
Jesse: "It's like. I'm addicted to ice cream, and it was like an ice cream meal. I could eat it all day. All day bro. I want a kids pool filled with it for my birthday. I want a pea soup filled bath, and I'll just eat myself out of it. But I want it to be warm this time. I'm not just going to sit in cold soup and eat the entire bathtub."
Brianne: "The soup has to be pureed."
Eric: "In a little magic bullet."
Jesse: "Just put it next to the bathtub."
Eric: Star rating: 4.9
"It was perfect. I took away a point one because i thought it would have been fun to have a dollop or a little squiggle of, maybe a crème? I don't actually know what I'm thinking of but i can picture it. Brianne posted a picture of the soup earlier in the day when she first made it. we all thought it was from a magazine she stole the recipe for, but she just took a picture of it in the laundry room."
Brianne: "The laundry room is where my secret photo studio is!"
SECOND COURSE: Chipotle Chicken Stuffed Sweet Potato Skins
STAR RATING: 4.56/5
These looked really delicious online. The recipe I used claimed they were healthy, but that's probably a stretch because they're covered with cheese. They took an excruciatingly long time to cook. It was in and out of the oven a zillion times. There were lots of steps which is not how I like to do things. I don't like to do steps, which is probably why i won't do these again. but it tasted lime-zesty-chipotle-fresh, delicious. All those things. I have never used so many spices! Cumin, red pepper flakes, chipotle, chilli pepper, cayenne... it just went on and on.
"If we didn't get so drunk before we had to do these I would do much better.
Jesse: "Can I put a gif as my review?"
Brianne: "No Jesse."
Ian: Star rating:4.7
I really enjoyed the marinated chicken. It was zesty and fresh with a delicious, perfectly cooked sweet potato. 4.7, because i was picky about the skins.
Brianne: "For some reason, Ian wants sweet potato skins with no skins. I baked that thing for over an hour to get those perfect skins!"
Ian: "...it was great.."
Jesse Star rating: 4.5
"They were delicious. 4.5. Needed a kick on the sweet potato, other than that it was perfection. Needed a pinch of fresh cayenne on top. maybe like a smokey cayenne.
Brianne: "there was cayenne in it."
Jesse: "If anyone else asks Eric, I give that potato a 5 out of 5. The cayenne was perfect and forget about the paprika."
Eric: 4.5
"It was really good. the potato was sweet and supple. I thought the choice of cheese was superb. We should all take a moment to give the credit that is due to the beautiful aged cheddar that was used to top those potatoes, and honour the years it has been preparing for it's feature, here, on eating stuff. A moment of silence.
It was really good. I had no idea how I would have made it until I had one on a plate in front of me. I would have shredded the chicken a little more and hollowed out a little bit more of the potato. Or. Maybe not. No sense in losing potato. Maybe sour cream here too. I don't know how i'm lean cause I love sour cream."
(Eric is incapable of talking about sour cream without quoting a rap song that mentions sour cream)
Brianne: "I'd like to give a shout out to eric for getting the special cheese. Balderson. and getting some other vital ingredients as well."
Eric: "Do you think Balderson will sponsor us."
Brianne: "Maybe we could get Thunder Oak to sponsor us, they're in Thunder Bay."
Eric: "Ohhhh ya Thunder Oak is good. I see you t-oak!"
STAR RATING: 4.6/5
Since the fudge sucked, during the trial run last week, U decided to make something with a ton of butter and a ton of sugar to make sure it was amazing. The cake was extremely sweet and dense, with little snappy poppy seeds inside. The glaze had orange juice in it! I learned some new things while making it, I learned about streusel. That's the crumbly butter layer on top of coffee cake that makes it so good. That took a lot of elbow grease to make, I had to use the pastry blender, so that was my work out for the day.
I'm going to eat this for breakfast for the next week.
I'm sorry donut.
I love you.
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| It was one of those recipes where you just mix everything together in the bowl at once. MY KIND OF STEP. |
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| Streusel was hard but it paid off. |
Ian: Star rating: 5
"This was a delightful end to the night, with the perfectly brewed coffee, and the incredibly tasty, delicious treat. 5 out of 5. I enjoyed the hints of orange.
Ian: "What was it called"
Eric: "What?"
Brianne: "Streusel??"
Ian: "STREUSELLL. I love that."
Jesse: Star rating: 4.5
"It was the perfect combination of crunch and moistness. It was something you could warm up and eat right before bed. Putting you into a deep sleep. Coaxing your body into the deepest sleep you've ever had. It could have used nothing, it was perfect. Four point five out of five."
Eric: Star rating: 4.5
"Tasty treat. I'm not big on desserts, but there's a special place in my heart for things that make black coffee even more delicious. Or maybe it's things that black coffee make more delicious. If that's the case Brianne was smart to shove a cup of coffee in my hand while she made me eat that crap.
That's probably not how it happened."
Then we played catchphrase aka the best game ever.
PHOTO BOOTH PHOTO
Brianne: "This photo is just for you Mom."
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