To start off this blog, I'll explain why Thursday at work is like Christmas. Thursday is the day we get in our local farm order. Therefore when it comes in, we oogle for a good 30 min before we put it away, but the stuff we got was amazing. Fresh asparagus, spring garlic, baby green mix, baby arugula, some fresh herbs, beets, and we got this stuff in call baby braising mix which is full of baby swiss chard, kale, tatsoi, etc.
Look at those beets! They are so tiny and beautiful!
Here's the baby braising mix with some fresh chives on top with the flowers.
The week has slowed down alot after the past three weeks of total craziness so we got to do some good specials this week.
This isn't so much a special but a re plating of our buttermilk chicken on our dinner menu. We take an airline chicken breast and make a buttermilk brine and soak the chicken in it. Then we pop the chicken in the steamer to cook in the buttermilk (would be so much better if we had a circulator) Off to the left is potatoes sarladaise, its potatoes that are confit, then fried and tossed in fresh herbs, salt and alittle white truffle oil. To the right is some braised rhubarb and ontop is some braised and roasted spring garlic.
This was a warm asparagus salad with a poached egg and some prosciutto. Theres some roasted asparagus, sauteed, braised, and raw on the plate. We made a myer lemon vinaigrette to go with it and on top of the poached egg is some dehydrated vegetables we did last week.
This was an appetizer we ran. We made our own salt cod in house (the brine I made was awesome, I don't want to give it out). But the base is a spring garlic veloute and we roasted some morels, we candied some spring garlic and theres some garlic confit on the plate as well.
So many photos this blog post! My next two photos will describe the epic awesome-ness of diner food at its finest. Yesterday before I left for my trip to Denver, Mark and I went to King Chef's Diner in downtown Colorado Springs. Let me say, that is by far the best diner food I have ever had in my life! There is no in between for diner food, its either good or really bad but this was beyond good, it was amazing.
A snippet of their menu.
My breakfast, a breakfast burrito with three eggs inside, hashbrowns, sausage, covered in your choice of country gravy (as above) or really, really, really, really hot green chili (stuff not for gringo's).
This place was great, the service was good and we learned the rules of King Chef's Diner. Theres nothing fancy there, so no lemon wedges, no honey, and no spoons in that diner. And if you think about it, if you took all those items out, you'd be saving quite the amount every year. So I don't blame them for not having those things.
But the last part of this post I'll make about my trip to the city of Denver. I drove out to the great city (about an hour away from Colorado Springs) saw some sights (it was terribly gloomy day yesterday) and I got to see some more family, my cousin Sean and his wife and kids. Sean made chicken marsala and roasted garlic mashed potatoes and I will say it was pretty dang good. It was nice to take a drive, see somewhere new and visit, but to the city of Denver, I'll be back to visit again.
Thats it for this blog post, I'm off to finish my to do list for the day, maybe I'll write later if not you'll catch me later in the week!
-Garrett
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