Plaidophile

First course: Take everyday vegetables and one exotic ingredient and sauté them together as a filling. Roast a vegetable, and stuff it with the filling. Toss some of the remaining ingredients into a bowl, put the stuffed vegetable on top of them exactly in the center, then ladle a pureed soup base (either pea or acorn squash) around it. For bonus points, drizzle heavy cream on top.

Interlude: Talk about the spirit of Jazz and how it applies to cooking, especially with how every instrument is equally important.

Second course: Take yesterday's stale bread, lovingly make fancy croutons out of them, then pulverize them into bread crumbs. Stir the crumbs into a vinaigrette. In another bowl, make a salad out of beans and expensive imported ham. Toss with olive oil and lemon juice. Add some microgreens and "beautifully caress" them. Arrange it on a plate in a "random" fashion (make sure the long pieces are sticking up just so). Add hard boiled quail eggs. Drizzle the vinaigrette on top and in patterns around the salad. Keep on fussily arranging every little bean and egg and sliver of radish and whatever until it looks perfect (especially the little bits which have "randomly" fallen around it).