Chef of the day

[seaboy4hire]

So as some of you know I am back in school and am taking an English class (one of two requirements) to get into the culinary program at one of the better cooking schools in Washington. The latest assignment was to create a discriprtive menu on what we'd serve when we are the chef of the day in the kitchen for the program. I have to admit though I am not really enjoying the class being that I am not really much of a writer and not much of one either when told I have to write on a specific topic. But here is my menu if I were chef of the day in the schools kitchen. Hope y'all enjoy.

 

Beverage: Fresh homemade lemonade. A little sweet a little sour but very refreshing in the shade of a hot summer day.

 

Salad: Simple Summer Salad. Fresh off the vine tomatoes, crisp tangy red onion and refreshing cool cucumber married together happily in a tangy Italian dressing.

 

Soup: Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup. Fresh seasonal veggies swimming around in a homemade chicken broth dancing around with tender chunks of chicken.

 

Sides: Southern Style Potato Salad. Nothing fancy or foodie about this tasty morsel. Just simple and to the point. A lil bit of potato, egg mayo veggie and a whole lotta southern foot up in there!

 

Southern Collard Greens With Pork Shank. Didn't your mama tell you to eat your greens? We'll you'll get the same treatment here but mixed in with some good pork shank meatiness and fat to help it go down and taste that much better.

 

Main Dish: Garlic Chicken Fried Chicken. Just as it says. Chicken breast rubbed and shown some garlic love and then fried. Just like your grandma would make!

 

Dessert: Sweet Potato Pie. No southern meal would be complete without a sweet potato pie and this one is done right with a pecan topping and drizzled with real maple syrup for a lil extra sweet kick to the taste buds!

[Guest ChgoBoy]

crisp tangy red onion and refreshing cool cucumber married together happily in a tangy Italian dressing.

 

Everything else sounded perfect Greg, except for this. I suspect that there will be those out there that will find crisp tangy red onion and refreshing cool cucumber married together happily in a tangy Italian dressing an assault upon our society.

 

I say - carry on young man. I love the menu.

 

A+++

[seeker630]

Sounds yummy but...

 

Sides: Southern Style Potato Salad. Nothing fancy or foodie about this tasty morsel. Just simple and to the point. A lil bit of potato, egg mayo veggie and a whole lotta southern foot up in there!

 

Not sure if 'foot' is a typo or just a phrase I'm not familiar with (I'm from North Carolina & southern Virginia, by the way, so maybe I'm not Southern enough?), but I'm not sure ithers unfamiliar with it would find it appealing either? But I'd pobably still order it, tho I'd want to know what the 'veggies' are! (In our familaity versions, there was only potato, pickle relish, and sometimes a bit of onion.

[instudiocity]

Beverage: Fresh homemade lemonade. A little sweet a little sour but very refreshing in the shade of a hot summer day.

 

Salad: Simple Summer Salad. Fresh off the vine tomatoes, crisp tangy red onion and refreshing cool cucumber married together happily in a tangy Italian dressing.

 

Soup: Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup. Fresh seasonal veggies swimming around in a homemade chicken broth dancing around with tender chunks of chicken.

 

Sides: Southern Style Potato Salad. Nothing fancy or foodie about this tasty morsel. Just simple and to the point. A lil bit of potato, egg mayo veggie and a whole lotta southern foot up in there!

 

Southern Collard Greens With Pork Shank. Didn't your mama tell you to eat your greens? We'll you'll get the same treatment here but mixed in with some good pork shank meatiness and fat to help it go down and taste that much better.

 

Main Dish: Garlic Chicken Fried Chicken. Just as it says. Chicken breast rubbed and shown some garlic love and then fried. Just like your grandma would make!

 

Dessert: Sweet Potato Pie. No southern meal would be complete without a sweet potato pie and this one is done right with a pecan topping and drizzled with real maple syrup for a lil extra sweet kick to the taste buds!

 

Juan, I find nuttin' wrong wif yore English.

 

I want me to eat up on sum o'dem collardgreens what's got the poke shank in it.

 

And you cain't go wrong with garlic-rubbed love in Granny's Fried Chicken.

 

And Swee-ate Tater Pie is always a fittin' desert wif 'er wifout dat maple syrup and pecans.

[doitb4ugo]

Writing from the heart

 

So as some of you know I am back in school and am taking an English class (one of two requirements) to get into the culinary program at one of the better cooking schools in Washington. The latest assignment was to create a discriprtive menu on what we'd serve when we are the chef of the day in the kitchen for the program. I have to admit though I am not really enjoying the class being that I am not really much of a writer and not much of one either when told I have to write on a specific topic. But here is my menu if I were chef of the day in the schools kitchen. Hope y'all enjoy.

 

Don't underestimate yourself, seaboy4hire, That writing sounded like it came from the heart and you can't go wrong with that kind of enthusiasm. If your passion is in the food, your writing will more than take care of itself. Great Job. I'm not southern by any stretch but you menu made my mouth water....Thanks for sharing this part of your life with us. I gives me great joy to read about someone pursuing their dreams the way you are.

[KMEM]

Well, I am from the South. Where are the chitlins? You couldn't get me to eat chitterlings with a gun. They are the only food that I know of that stinks even when frozen. Ugh.

 

Keep going.

 

Best regards,

KMEM

[rvwnsd]

The menu sounds very yummy and I like your descriptions. Many restaurants are using a similar conversational style when writing their menus.

[NYTomcat]

ok I love sweet potato pie but..

 

OK this is the kind of meal my grandma did make all the time (no wonder I fight the battle of the bulge 24/7) that said. Mine always made it with a shaved white chocolate and creem cheese frosted red velvet cake. Otherwise when can I come for dinner. and then the gym. I haven't gotten this bolemia down. Maybe its my age. I keep binging but forget to purge

[seaboy4hire]

Everything else sounded perfect Greg, except for this. I suspect that there will be those out there that will find crisp tangy red onion and refreshing cool cucumber married together happily in a tangy Italian dressing an assault upon our society.

 

I say - carry on young man. I love the menu.

 

A+++

 

LOL The foot part wasn't atypo. It was a term my black mama Re from akron OH used when she made her greens & I really liked the term. It's kind of an homage to her.

 

Hugs,

Greg

[seaboy4hire]

Well, I am from the South. Where are the chitlins? You couldn't get me to eat chitterlings with a gun. They are the only food that I know of that stinks even when frozen. Ugh.

 

Keep going.

 

Best regards,

KMEM

 

I really like food from the south. It's so comforting & really easy to make. When ever we go to a southern food place the woman are shocked at how I can really clean my plate & have room for sweet potato pie or a big ol' slice of red velvet.

 

Hugs,

Greg

[Guest greatness]

Yum

 

Nice job Greg~~ It sounds like you are going to run a family style restaurant. Your menu brings home to me. Good job!!

[seaboy4hire]

The menu sounds very yummy and I like your descriptions. Many restaurants are using a similar conversational style when writing their menus.

 

I read some of the other students drafts and well they were kind of boring, no personality at all. So I thought I would go a different route and try a little to let my own personality come through the descriptions. Now if it comes back to bite me in the bum I wont know that for a couple days till the teacher comments on our assignment online. Oh also being that food invokes emotions I was trying to play on that with the mention of mom and grandma hoping that happy thoughts would come to the readers minds a little bit.

 

Hugs,

Greg

[KMEM]

I really like food from the south. It's so comforting & really easy to make. When ever we go to a southern food place the woman are shocked at how I can really clean my plate & have room for sweet potato pie or a big ol' slice of red velvet.

 

Hugs,

Greg

 

You and Elvis.

 

Best regards,

KMEM

[Guest greatness]

Good idea

 

Happy thoughts did occur to me. I love my mom and grandmother.

 

[+ glutes]

SB4H: keep going Greg, you are going to outpace Julie & Julia!

Mouth watering menu, I hope Boobers will get a taste...

[Guest greatness]

I can't wait

 

I want to eat what Greg prepares after his training. I get excited when my friends achieve something for the first time~~ I just can't wait~~

[MsGuy]

Greg, try adding 1/2 teaspoon of orange extract to your sweet potato pie. Not so much as to be identifiable, just enough to add another layer of flavor. Works well with sweet potato casserole too. Very Southern, very authentic variation.