a small interruption

to post about our dinner last night... at Le Cordon Bleu Chicago... a fund raiser for their competition cooking team -

the menu was mostly different than the prior time we had dined there (last fall) and so we decided to head down and enjoy the evening-

here is the menu

 

 

 

and here are the various courses in order noted above-

 the soup "stuffing" and then covered up with the soup- a luscious chilled pea soup!

 the ladder cracker was made of pumpernickel bread

 the blueberry shooter had spices and butter floating on the top of the cool blueberry juice...

before we sat down for dinner we visited the kitchen where we saw demos of tuille making (Parmesan and chocolate cookie - like the curled piece in the dessert photo above)

 

 

 carrot foam on peas was part of the demo of foaming techniques

Michelle Brown from Rational ovens was there as well- having donated several items for the auction. Here she is (in red) with Chef Austin Yancey the recently named Educator of the Year by the Association of Culinary Schools- a nationwide honor!

a good time was had by all and the team raised almost $4000 in the auctioned items!

oh and did I mention I took a class (courtesy of Don Newcomb) earlier that day at LCBC?