Reviewed by Freya and Matei
Another week, another Mensa masterchef review. After Mart and Lara cooked their heart and soul out to give us this amazing meal, Matei and I did our best to review in a timely fashion, and failed miserably. So here is the review: (also the entire thing is in first person due to… circumstances)
First course:
Honestly this was the most hype course of the meal for me. I just fuckin love soup and I fuckin love garlic and the little crunchy hearts in the soup made it so much better. I thought they might become soggy but they didn’t and it was great. The taste was exquisite, so garlicy and salty. It brought me back to long lost childhood memories, the taste of home, salt. mwah
Second course:
Koornbeurs classic of “vegetables in sauce”. very healthy amount of food, could be a regular mensa on its own. The sauce and veggies were hearty (ha) and wholesome but I did wish for a more contrasting taste next to the sweet. HOWEVER, HEART-SHAPED BREAD. Mart and Lara kinda lucked out on judges because I fuckin love nice bread to an unhealthy degree, if I could eat fresh bread for dinner every night I would, I am a duck among people. So I was super excited that they had made bread. I was informed that they had made it the weekend before, and usually homemade bread doesn’t hold out that long so I was scared it was going to be tough. But through some clever zip-locking, it was thankfully fine. Just. Bread.
Desert:
As fellow schenki-ers will know I am more of an apple pie bitch than a cheesecake one. But I do love raspberries so that evened out. The plating was really cute, the cheesecake was tasty, but the cheese filling could have been improved. Overall very nice.
General comments:
I thought it was really cute that there was a running theme in the mensa and all the courses were really nice on their own. Everything was on time and well executed. The only downside was that it was 6 euros, which is quite a bit. I personally don’t really mind as that’s still not much for a three-course meal. But compared to Nino it’s twice as much, and I’m not sure the meal was twice as good.
All in all Mart and Lara put down a very solid conteder for Mensa Masterchef. I was a very fun meal and overall very tasty, and kept the bar high for the competition. We look forward to seeing what people come up with to beat this.
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