Thursday, March 10, 2011
If you get the chance.....
I attended a conference at the Kalahari resort in Wisconsin Dells this week. I will say this...if you get the chance to go there and eat the food....go. No, don't just go...RUN!!!!!
The chefs there know food, they know flavors and they know how to use them. The first night was appetizers of all kinds, lamb, nori vegetables in tempura batter, watermelon slices with a slice of cucumber on it and then topped with a butterflied shrimp. There was a cheese fondue with veggies and pretzel bread, antipasti, teryaki steak sushi, scallops in a sweet chili sauce, loaded mashed potatoes in a martini glass, stuffed mushrooms, cheeses, wines, chocolates.....it was wonderful. Our table was not the most adventurous bunch of people when it came to trying things, but I was. I tried it all.
The conference food was wonderful and then came the last night banquet. The opener was a crab cake and crab claw arranged on a tower of romaine lettuce with 3 different salad dressings decorating the plate. I could have eaten about 3 of them and been totally happy. The next course was a beef fillet, with a portabello mushroom base, lobster cannelloni with a lobster sherry cream sauce and a tomato half stuffed with asparagus. I am not ashamed to say that I ate it all.
Dessert was 3 or 4 types of chocolate layered in a tower. It was beautiful and tasted wonderful, but I loved the Tirimisu that they served us the day before in a coffee cup made of chocolate and topped with whipped cream in the shape of steam rising from the cup.
All in all, it was one of the great eating experiences of my life. I probably gained back the 11 pounds that I had lost (although I did take the stairs instead of the elevator and walked every chance that I had). I would love to go and learn from those who created that wonderful food. I wonder if they hold classes?
Have a great one!
The chefs there know food, they know flavors and they know how to use them. The first night was appetizers of all kinds, lamb, nori vegetables in tempura batter, watermelon slices with a slice of cucumber on it and then topped with a butterflied shrimp. There was a cheese fondue with veggies and pretzel bread, antipasti, teryaki steak sushi, scallops in a sweet chili sauce, loaded mashed potatoes in a martini glass, stuffed mushrooms, cheeses, wines, chocolates.....it was wonderful. Our table was not the most adventurous bunch of people when it came to trying things, but I was. I tried it all.
The conference food was wonderful and then came the last night banquet. The opener was a crab cake and crab claw arranged on a tower of romaine lettuce with 3 different salad dressings decorating the plate. I could have eaten about 3 of them and been totally happy. The next course was a beef fillet, with a portabello mushroom base, lobster cannelloni with a lobster sherry cream sauce and a tomato half stuffed with asparagus. I am not ashamed to say that I ate it all.
Dessert was 3 or 4 types of chocolate layered in a tower. It was beautiful and tasted wonderful, but I loved the Tirimisu that they served us the day before in a coffee cup made of chocolate and topped with whipped cream in the shape of steam rising from the cup.
All in all, it was one of the great eating experiences of my life. I probably gained back the 11 pounds that I had lost (although I did take the stairs instead of the elevator and walked every chance that I had). I would love to go and learn from those who created that wonderful food. I wonder if they hold classes?
Have a great one!
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