Yummy Halibut

So Tucker made Sarah Burns & I dinner. And he served Halibut with a Bay Shrimp filled Champagne Cream Sauce over Saffron Basamati Rice with Wild caught Smoked Salmon skirting the Halibut. Let me just say that it was divine, and I mean almost as good as the Truffles & Turbot we had at Le Doyen. Which I thought was sort of bizarre since we where eating the meal with Sarah who was also at the special Le Doyen dinner, I'm sure Gretchen remembers this!

The Price is Right

Well I don't know if all of you where able to watch the last two The Price is Right with Bob Barker. But Tucker & I where, here is the proof! Does any one know who the new host of the show is? Poor Tucker is in denial & hasn't watched the show since the last one with Bob. I don't think it will be the same...

Wine Dinner @ the Patisserie

The Portland Food & Wine Society had a Pinot Noir Tasting @ the Patisserie along with dinner. I took some photos of the event, I couldn't get over all of the wine glasses !!

Plate of Pretty Desserts...

I thought it would be fun to post this picture of desserts. I took this picture on Sunday May 6th when portlandpicks.com came in to see the place before featuring us on their website. I like how the stained glass is reflecting off of the granite counter top. We are still on there until this Friday, I think.

Cinco De Mayo Din Din

Well as most of you know we ended up just having Cinco De Mayo feast with Tucker's Parents, Doug & Gretchen. We had wonderful time and the food was amazing, as usual... I have included a picture of the Empinadas that where the main dish. But to be honest I could barely eat one, I was already soooo full from the prior courses :)

Cinco De Mayo

Well I am excited to announce that we will be having a special Dinner for Cinco De Mayo!! We are very excited to spice things up a bit and host a different sort of dinner :) Tucker informed me that the hat doesn't go with Cinco De Mayo, but he still let me have fun with it...

~Menu~

Salade
Capsicums-
Marinated Red Pepper Salade
Or
Chorizo en Sidra-
Chorizo tossed in a Cider Vinagrette

Entrée
Camarón de la Parrila-
Grilled Prawns with an Avacado Tequila Sauce

Plat
Epenadas-
Tucker's very own Puff Pastry stuffed with ham, cheddar, & green olives

Dessert
Hecho en casa Churros con Kahlúa Flan–
Home made Churros with Kahlúa Custard

I'm excited, does any one have a pinata I can borrow!?!!

These are sort of neat...

These are very interesting - be sure to take the time to observe # 7 as instructed - they are all amazing...

#1

Is this possible?

#2

#3

Are the purple lines straight or bent?

#4

Do you see gray areas in between the squares?

Now where did they come from?

#5

This one is kind of creepy...

You should see a man's face and also a word...

Hint: Try tilting your head to the right, the world begins with 'L'

#6

If you take a look at the following picture , let me tell you .... it is not animated. Your eyes are making it move. To test this, stare at one spot for a couple seconds and everything will stop moving. Or look at the black center of each circle and it will stop moving. But move your eyes to the next black center and the previous will move after you take your eyes away from it.... Weird ?

#7

When it rains, it pours....

Well today has been very eventful...

I'll start with the salad bar fridge that died in the middle of the night... Once Monte discovered this, I went upstairs to wake up Tucker early & give him the unfortunate news. Of course he rushed down stairs to find that hundreds of dollars of prepped food had gone bad. :( Bummer huh? There's more....

Not only had all the food gone to waste. We basically weren't going to be able to serve anything off of the menu since we lost everything that was already prepped and meant for today. So Monte and I dove right in and started peeling peppers etc. It was about 6:30am at that point. After a while we where able to offer everything except Classic Bene. All of the Canadian Bacon had been in the fridge that died.

So once the repair man showed up he determined that the motor on the fridge was shot. So we have to buy a whole new set up. $1700, yikes! Right as we get this news, the fire alarm blares in the dining room, with two tables of people dining in for breakfast. Apparently the repair man had gone through the entire restaurant and blew the coils free of dust on all of the fridge & freezer units. Well the fire panel is right next to our largest freezer down stairs and there was so much dust the fire alarm thought it was smoke and sounded. So needless to say the fire department arrived shortly just as I discovered the computers had crashed and the credit cards weren't processing.

I'll tell you what, I thought what else could go wrong at that point! So I did CC's the old fashioned way, by hand.

Our first guests of the day where well aware we where having problems, with only Quiche to order from and all of the racket in the kitchen. Plus they where here when the fire alarm sounded. They informed me that today is Friday the 13th. I have never once in my life ever experienced anything odd on a Friday the 13th. But today is one for the books! And still two more hours till closing, sigh...

Sorry, no picture with this post.

Crab & Photos :)

So not much going on here that is really worth reporting to you about. So I will just show some random pictures I have taken over tha past couple of weeks...

Tucker working on poached eggs for benedicts. Did you know he starts every Saturday with at least 60 poached eggs!!

Ah yes, my favooooorite cake ever: Paradisiaque. I think it was looking particularly good this day :)

Tucker getting ready to bowl.

This would be me bothering Tucker while he is trying to have a phone conversation...

Oh! What do we have here?

It's crab & it's alive!!

Bye Bye Crabbie! This is the first one...

A close up of Tucker mincing capers for our tartar sauce.

I was suprised to find all sorts of veggies in the pot with the crab. Tuck told me that at Le Doyen they allways boiled their lobster with all sorts of fresh veggies. So that is the treatment our two crabs recieved.

Here Tucker is struggling to get the second crab out of the bag. He wouldn't let go, his little claws where holding on for dear life!

Ha ha! Tucker finally won!

Here is us while we are waiting for our crabs...

Another shot of the pot.

Ready to see how they are doing!

Getting some good color :)

Yum this was one good crab!

The End.