Last weekend I organized and cooked Valentine’s Day dinner and Post Valentine’s Day dinner for a total of 24 people. This was the first time I made an event open for the public. The compliance was amazing – I sold all the sits in less than 24 hours, two weeks in advance and I got a lot of help from friends and family. Thank you everyone for making this night happen.
Pictures are taken by Alon Tertman – thanks for taking the job in short notice!
A romantic table for 12
Round #2 diners ready to get their meal started
Sparkling wine cocktail with cherry heering liqueur and strawberry
The menu of 9 dishes dinner and drinks
Olives bread
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Four types of bread: Olives bread, Rustic bread, white French bread and walnut bread; with green olives tapenade and butter.
Amuse Bouche: Mini Puff Pastries with mushrooms and Dana Blue cream, pickled onion
The wine: Teperberg Silver Syrah / Merlot / Chardonnay
Crispy polenta, artichoke cream and Italian artichoke, Baby Buffalo Mozzarella, rocket with walnut oil vinaigrette, pear Chips
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Winter candies: Fresh and pickled radish, turnips in butter, marmalade of fennel in Arak, roasted beets, salmon semi cooked, cabbage and ginger broth
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Seared calamari, pasta leaf, lemon confit, Turkish spinach, Beurre Blanc and sage sauce, chives
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This is me, in the middle of the service
Lamb ribs, mint and chili chimichurri, baked Potatoes, garlic and honey roasted carrots
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My awesome crew getting ready for desserts
Chamomile panna cotta, five spices Hot – Cold butternut cream, candied pumpkin seeds
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Valentine’s dessert: creamy chocolate, strawberry mint salad, butter marzipan cookies, whipped mascarpone and strawberry sauce
We also do birthdays
A candy to end the meal – fudge with cranberry and almonds
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Coffee and tea
For me, this was definitely the most challenging project I took by myself so far, but I learned so much of it. Everything seemed to be working against me this week: there was a plumbing leak in the house that made a mess, stopped the water and shorted the electricity; my sous-vide circulator stopped working after I made all my plans on it and I had to change some dishes accordingly; I got sick and had to rest; the cleaning person bailed on me… But still, with all the problems, I managed to pull it off, very successfully, I think.
Thanks to everyone who helped:
Bonbon, Mom, Sharon & Omer, Alon, Safta & Saba Lia & Pablo, Barak, Shlomi, Michal, and all my guests of course!!
For the full picture album of the night see albums: Main Event and Behind The Scenes.
great pics Alon!
everything looks so yumi !
when is the next one?
This was fun!
It was an excellent dinner, full of exciting tastes. I’ve never eating things like that before, and this dinner helped me discover tastes I didn’t know exist.
Thanks a lot!
Michael, glad you liked it!
I was a guest on Thursday. The food way great: especially the lamb chops and disserts. Can’t wait to eat more of Mashav’s works of art soon!
I was a guest on the 14th – it was a wonderful meal. Very interesting and different tastes but they fit perfectly together. I liked the calamari (which I’m normally not a big fan of, but it was just perfect) and the desserts, especially the fudge.
There were some timing issues – we had to wait quite a while for the dishes, but I believe this was because it was the first dinner of its kind that Mashav hosted. I understand that the second evening went much more smoothly.
I wold like to thak you again for a remarkable evening!
The food was spectacular and diverse, no less was the company.
I hope to see you soon again in such an event, make sure you count me in 🙂
We were guests on Valentine’s Day dinner. As soon as we came in, we were welcomed by a lovely homemade cocktail and after a short small talk we were all seated by the great dinner table.
The dishes started to appear, one after the other, each absolutely flawless! So many flavours and ingredients who were combined to very unique dishes and all were presented very neatly on the plates.
We truly enjoyed the dinner, the company and the entire organisation.
Can’t wait for the next one!
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first of all…. great food 🙂
this is the first time for me to be at a 9 course dinner, and to sum it up, excellent.
delicious food. i even ate stuff which i usually won’t touch with a 10″ pole, but even those things tasted good.
and btw, the bit of candy at the end… i want more
This is by far one of the best meels that I had, not to meantion the price was very reasonable for an heavenly meal.
Each one of the servings was an art of it self, made to apeal to the eaters palates. The combination of the various
platters and wines made it a celebration.
I had the pleasure of participating in 2 of Mahav’s dinners and the thing that stands out the most is her creativity and her sense of adventure with food. It was apparent that each dish was planned carefully and executed elegantly.
Ina and Alex Merzlak wrote:
הארוחה היתה בשבילנו חוויה מעניינת וטעימה!
המנות היו מאוד מושקעות – בצורת ההגשה, המרכיבים והמחשבה הרבה מאחורי כל מנה ומנה.
אכלנו הכל, גם דברים שלא היינו נוגעים בהם בדר”כ – היה טעים ומיוחד 🙂
מומלץ בחום!
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