Team 1:

Crab and Blueberry Cakes with Chipolte-Berry Aoli*

Chipotle-strawberry Mashed Potatoes (don’t remember what kind of steak that was)

Spicy Roasted Salmon with Mixed berry Sauce

I failed to take a picture of the Chocolate Passion fruit ice cream over Berry Preserves.

Team 2:

Strawberry Consomme

Blueberry Lavender Risotto*

Crab, Brie and Currant Stuffed Puff Pastry, Blueberry Sauce*

Roasted Chicken, Currant Gastrique, Savory Cornbread, Baby Squash, Raspberry Glaze

My favorite in the competition was Team 2. While Team 1 came out swinging with that crab cake situation, Team 2 took the crab-berry combo to a whole different level. The brie mixed with the crab on its own was salty but the sweetness of the berries offset the saltiness perfectly. In fact, Team 2 followed the sweet and savory theme throughout all its dishes and pulled it off fabulously. It’s no wonder Team 2 was headed up by my favorite chef (I found out after we were done). Overall, the best (and only) 8 course meal I’ve ever eaten. Great job to all!

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Mmm…

mmm…

good!

What you are drooling at is a small portion of the selection we had for lunch yesterday. Yum.

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That being said, I would like to know what the pizza delivery industry has against chocolate. There is obviously a vendetta, given the exclusion of one of the most coveted sweets from their dessert offerings. Fruits and sugars and cinnamon can be found in abundance but there is no chocolate to be had. Its not like there aren’t recipes incorporating chocolate and pizza. A search for chocolate and pizza returns 300 results.

Where is the rule that pizza delivery desserts may only include fruit topping, sugar, and/or cinnamon? Who decided this? I should hope that some enterprising world class pizza chain would buck the trend (I’m talking to you Papa John’s) and offer a chocolate based dessert.

Rant over.

Meanwhile, I started my new job! Where? I’ll give you a hint…”Search don’t sort.”

I’m in NY right now for work and it’s the second time I’ve been here ever in life. I don’t really care for NY too much (please don’t flame me). I guess there is just too much going on. I’m accustomed to life in a city but not a REALLY BIG SUPER CROWDED city. There are definitely nice people at the office here though, so thats a plus.

For a final thought, you have to love this quote by Billy boy. Stop me if you’ve heard this before:

Another digital tool that has had a big effect on my productivity is desktop search. It has transformed the way I access information on my PC, on servers, and on the Internet. With larger hard drives and increasing bandwidth, I now have gigabytes of information on my PC and servers in the form of e-mails, documents, media files, contact databases, and so on.

Instead of having to navigate through folders to find that one document where I think a piece of information might be, I simply type search terms into a toolbar and all the e-mails and documents that contain that information are at my fingertips. The same goes for phone numbers and email addresses.

That about wraps up tonights post ladies and gents. If you’re in NY go have a slice of pizza.