Bottom Line:
Staggeringly diverse menu prepared with home…read morestyle care & love apparent in each dish, which results in very flavorful food.
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Bobbi herself is the crown jewel: professional (extraordinary communications!), personal, and friendly, while having a personality that absolutely radiates the enthusiasm she has for & the joy she takes in doing what she does. She has a "10 stars on a 5 star scale" bright shining persona. I absolutely and unequivocally recommend her services & food.
Top Line:
I had the privilege of an oxtail dinner with side salad prepared by Bobbi at a Father's Day Dinner she catered in Bernalillo. Her crew had the room decorated with simplistic elegance befitting the occasion. Tables settings were in line with that theme: white linen table cloth overlain with a smaller black one, white cloth napkins bound with white & gold bands, gold flatware wrapped inside, a couple large gold chargers at each table, drinks drawn into clear tapered plastic cups with gold band rims.
The infused water & a lemonade in dispenser jars were delightful in their complexity. These were no "one note wonders". They were so good that a few return trips to the drinks & dessert table were necessitated.
Salad was a medley of bold flavors dancing together. None overwhelming the others. Kalamata olives, fresh shaved parmesan cheese, & chiffonade fresh basil added their punch to the mix. Raspberry vinaigrette was very prominent on berry flavor & rather sweet. So tasty, you know I brought the extra home for later! Only downside was that, since this was a catered in dinner, the salad came in a plastic dish, albeit a heavy duty better than average quality dish, which detracted from the overall elegance of the setting.
Braised oxtails were rich in flavor and super fall off the bone tender. Portion was generous. Gravy was good, but ran rather typical in flavor without herbs or diversity of spices for complexity. Body of gravy was fine, not pasty thick or watery thin. Rice was absolutely on the mark!! Just al dente enough to be substantial & ever so slightly chewy. Again, a generous portion on the rice, a layer of lovely carbs out of which rose the seastack of the oxtails.
Dessert was a generous slice of chocolate caramel cake with a plentiful covering of frosting to appease the inner sugar fiend. The chocolate cake was dense, moist, and rich-rich-rich! Bobbi also gave me a scoop of her peach cobbler, another of the dessert options. While the cinnamon played its flavor place of prominence with distinct robustness, it was a mellow, balanced, and rounded performance. The cinnaflavor was not sharp or aggressive in its approach, nor overwhelming of the other spices in the mix. The peach chunks taste was somewhat muted under an overall quite sweet flavor. Cakelike crust layer added its own substantiality to the dish
Portion sizes were likewise large on the to-go meals & separate oxtail portions I had ordered. In the box I also found a serving of each of the dessert options: the aforementioned chocolate cake and peach cobbler, plus a slice of Bobbi's bright blue version of red velvet cake.