The Cordon Bleahhh!

There are good restaurants and then there are the ones that you wish never existed. This one belongs in the later, I have to say that for me, as far as the last 2 days have gone, it has been sadly disappointing to say the least. Well this restaurant is located in Chennai and it is called the cascade.


I do not want to give more details for the moment but you can always leave your comment here and I can get back to you. Lets talk about what happened at the cascade, well, I ordered for an asparagus soup. Lets just say that I became a cow when the soup came along, to say that the asparagus was partially cooked will be over estimating the dish. Then I had ordered for a Fish steak braised with lemon and wild mushrooms, well it was one wild dish all right.

The fish was overdone, flaky in parts and rubbery in the others, the lemon flavor was too powerful and override everything else and to make things more interesting, it seems that the kitchen has run out of Mushrooms. How on earth can a kitchen run out of mushrooms is really beyond me. And the desert was the clincher for me, I had asked for a Black forest cake, it seems that the chef went to one of those retail department stores, bought those cake slices that are readily available in the market, rubbed some cream on them and then put the whole thing onto my plate. It was a really interesting meal in more ways than one! Need I say more!

The curse of the Oyster Mushrooms!

We all love to eat mushrooms and I have to say that I am quite particular to button mushrooms. But when it comes to oyster mushrooms, I have to say that they really take the cake. I made the mistake of thinking that oyster mushrooms are just like button mushrooms and decided to have them for dinner one day. Anyway I took the mushrooms out and I have to say at this point that they have a very earthly smell and with lots of root like creepers hanging over the caps of the mushrooms.

Anyway I decided to cook them just as I would cook button mushrooms [this is my first time with the oyster ones].anyway I cut off the stem and cut the mushrooms and roots et all [big mistake] and sautéed them. I had no idea what so ever that the roots were quite toxic. Anyway the effects of this hit me like thunder the next day. I could not even get up and when I did, my head literally went in circles. To say that I felt faint would be an understatement. I went to the hospital and did a check up. The doc told me that I had high toxicity in my blood and that the culprit was none other than the 'Oyster mushrooms’. I am sure that if you know how to cook them, they will be delicious but for me it is sayonara all the way!