Showcasing the Pacific Northwest

We continued our recent trend of having a very well defined theme for our weekly tasting menus, but decided to keep things domestic. This time around, the Pacific Northwest was our region of choice. Pretty interesting area, and one I’ve actually always wanted to visit. Just to clarify, we’re talking about Oregon, Washington, and even [...]

My interpretation of Egyptian cuisine

In a recent entry, I believe I mentioned doing a Moroccan tasting menu at work. Well, after that we took our theme back to North Africa a couple weeks later. This time we decided to showcase Egypt, and the food the land of the Sphinx has to offer. Growing up, I was always fascinated with [...]

Going ethnic with my cuisine

As I believe I’ve mentioned before, we do a three course tasting menu at work each week. Its almost entirely up to us(the kitchen staff) what we want to do for it. The only restrictions are on cost, which basically just means we won’t be ordering in any exotic and expensive ingredients- we’re not necessarily [...]

The most ridiculous request I have ever heard

I work in a food service establishment serving made to order food. Its pretty normal for us to get some special requests- its a country club and we know how the stereotypical country club people can be. Usually its pretty normal stuff like no potatoes, sub vegetables, or sauce on the side, etc. Bottom line [...]

The rich and famous as role modes?

So, I’ve decided that I need to rant for a minute on a subject that seems to be in the news almost daily. Its in the news now, sorta, with this whole Tiger Woods car accident thing from over the weeknd, and him not having to talk to the police about it despite running over [...]

Let’s talk football for a minute…

To start off, let me say that with having a lot of family in Wisconsin, I was raised to be a huge Green Bay Packers fan. They’ve been in the news a lot the past two years, and it hasn’t been for winning a lot of games, unfortunately. I’m not looking to get into the [...]

My first food mission in Charlotte

One really simple food that I tend to really enjoy is a great sandwich- BLT’s, club sandwiches, a good French dip, and of course a properly made club sandwich(has to have the ham and the turkey- most people skip the ham these days and it pisses me off). Those are the stand-by’s that are usually [...]

My thoughts on vegetable stock and its use in professional cooking

Earlier this evening, when I was cleaning up after a fairly typical wednesday night a la carte dinner service, I approached my boss to tell him something. I started by simply saying that I’m fully aware that opinions are like assholes and everybody has one, and all that nonsense and skullduggery, but I had one [...]

I guess I’ll give it a couple of cool points for nostalgia

So, I ran a 5k race over the weekend after a pretty long hiatus from running- about 6 or 7 years away from running consistently, actually. Now, I used to live an breathe running(the way I do lifting nowadays), but my joints just can’t stand up to the constant pounding, so its something I had [...]

Some random thoughts from today

Tweaked that mint and tomato butter sauce recipe and it still makes me want to vomit. You can’t fix stupid, and theres no cure for ugly. Etouffee really isn’t very hard to make well. I’ll probably never go to another halloween party again. I went as a guido and nobody even got it. I really [...]