[The restaurant is on a mini staycation, and we'll be returning to the kitchen on Friday. I've been wrapped up in the launch of Geek. Cred. and working on other projects. Things will be getting back to what I deem as 'normal' soon. So I bring you another installment of "From The Vault"]
On Sunday night chef and the rest of the team put on a charity dinner for The Women of Vision, which is a great organization by the way, and the things they're doing for women right here in our back yard as well as internationally are nothing short of amazing.
To you up to speed, a while back Chef was put up for charity auction for the aforementioned Women of Vision, Sunday night was the night we were putting on the auction winners and their guests.
In the week leading up to the dinner, chef had a pretty good handle on what we were going to do. He wanted to use on ingredient as a 'theme' ingredient - a little bit of Iron Chef America warm up (we're less than a month away from heading to New York, still can't believe we're going).
So at first it was "Battle Shrimp" until, we found out that one of the diners that evening had a shell fish allergy, and the menu was scrapped.
Then he came up with "Battle Beef", and had a menu pretty much sketched out in his head. Then came the day of the event, he'd picked up some choice wagyu beef - the menu in his head? 86'd. We adjourned to the alley behind the restaurant to toss some things around.
Five minutes, BLAMMO! Seven course menu, including desert and every damn dish had beef in it. I should mention right now it just wasn't me and chef. We've taken on our next extern, the former is now in France working the Cannes Film Festival, and then to stay in Europe for a while. Oh, and yeah Daniel was there too....
This marks our third extern, so for color me impressed - he fits in well and the passion he has is frakkin' great. So a new member to the wolfpack and from what I understand he'll be with us for 3 months.
Anyways, back to our story.
Let me tell you, the menu was a bit squirrelly, which needless to say was awesome. We're talking things like beef heart stew served over the top of roasted eggplant, beef tongue salad, and one of my favorites - Shabu Shabu. I'm working on the pictures from that dinner.
If you were wondering - the dessert, mincemeat pie (natch) with grains of paradise ice cream. I plan to delve more into grains of paradise later, but needless to say it was frakkin' awesome.
I'm feeling pretty good today, having one day off didn't help in the body/rest recovery department. Since I'm in such a good mood I'll give you a pre-view of the Women of Vision Dinner.
Keep in mind I haven't edited this at all.
This is the menu that was designed in the alley. The drawing's next to each course, is the kind of plate we'd use to plate the dishes.
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