Category — Events

With spring on the way means that we have lots of events coming up! Here is a run down of  what  we are up to:

Sunday March 7th 2010- Sunday morning cooking on Denver’s ABC 7 with me! I will be making 3 recipes, 2 are dishes we serve at the Lobby. Starting at 7:30 and also there will be two during the 9 am hour.

Saturday March 20th 2010- Estate wine dinner at The Lobby. The menu is posted on The Lobby’s Website. Please make a reservation as seats are quickly being filled.

Sunday March 21st 2010-Chefs up front benefiting Operation Front line. Its an honor to be involved with this event! It boasts most of Denver’s top chefs cooking 5 course meals tableside. I have created an exciting menu that I can’t wait to make!

Friday April 9th 2010-Rockies Opening day! Get your pre-game started on The Lobby’s patio with The first ever Pig Roast! Slow roasted Pork with all your favorite sides! Great specials on beer and your favorite cocktails as well!

Wednesday April 21st 2010- Flavors of Denver! This event is so much fun!  It benefits the Liver Foundation and it’s the same format as Chefs up Front. This will be the 4th year I have participated and it’s a blast every time!

Also sometime during the week of April 12th I will be doing a demo on Fox 31’s Tom Martino Show. I am pretty excited about meeting him and cooking on his show!

The Garden planning has started! Dreams of heirloom tomatoes and canary melon have already happened. I will be starting seedling with in the next 2 weeks, come on spring!

So a lot has happened this summer! First of all, I would like to say that it was a fun summer overall, but there totally was some not so fun parts about it! I got a new Roommate and a new Job … that has been the Best part tho!

First of all I have been working with the great folks from the Whiskey Bar. We opened The Lobby Restaurant on September 25th! Everything is going great! I created the menu around the the affordable comfort food theme! Some of our best sellers are Stuffed Mushrooms and Fried Blue Cheese balls.

Sunday brunch has been very successful, Serving Bacon risotto and Glazed doughnut French toast has been quit pleasant! People Love it! I love them for coming to eat at The Lobby!

My Garden is pretty much dead. Kinda of lost time this summer and didn’t take good care of it! I am sure the neighbors loved everything, they were the only one’s picking anything. The corn patch did not produce hardly any corn, not at least big ears, lots of little ones tho. I think I am done trying to grow corn! Next year it’s goin to be a pumpkin patch, I think! Did get to use a lot of the basil that was back there, sure made a great pesto! I was able to save some of the plants that were in pots, they are now living in the front room of the apartment! The Rosemary, Bay tree, curry, and one lemon balm and currently loving the heated house and are glad that they are not outside!

I am going to be a Denver’s ABC 7 again this up coming weekend! I will be making bacon risotto with eggs sunny side up, Blue crab and asparagus wraps and also will be showcasing a pan seared Mahi! Be sure to tune in Sunday morning 10/25! I will also post the recipes later this week!

Lastly we are trying to set up a whiskey dinner with our favorite friends in Denver: The Lads over at Stranahan’s Whiskey and Virgil from Suburban Home Records . We are shooting for November 21st, It will include a 5 course amazing dinner paired with Whiskey and maybe a Great Divide beer, Also we are trying to get a couple of singer/songwriters to help us Have a great night of Whiskey, Food and, Music. It will be the First of many I am hoping. As of now, the price will be $50 per person, Just think you are getting 5 plates of the best food you are going to eat this year, Music from some of the best Denver has to offer and, Your getting the best Whiskey Made in Colorado! Colorado Proud Baby! We are limiting the seating to only 40 people so get you reservation in soon!

Take Care and I hope everyone is doing well!

Remember ABC 7 this Sunday! 7:45,9:15 and 9:45

The Lobby

Last Tuesday I took a trip up to me favorite honey hole in the mountains. Unlike the last trip I took up there, when we had a gale force wind blowing from the south,  this day the was sweet! Just a light wind from the west, enough to keep the bugs away and the fish hungry.

To my surprise though the fish was not that great, I had launched the boat by 6:15, but didn’t catch my first fish until 8:30.

For the next 4 hours I would set up and drift this area over and over again to no avail.

Just how it is some days, real bad fishing then its like someone turn a switch and the fishing is super hot.

With in the next 30 minuets I landed two fish, lost about three. First one that was in the boat was a nice fat cutbow that some how managed to swallow the spinner.  About 5 minuets after that one, I set up over a underwater point.

While reeling in my yellow mepps spinner, I got a sweet hit, set the hook and the fight was on! The lunker sprang out of the water about 3 feet trying to spit the hook with no luck. Just as I brought it in to the boat, the spinner popped free.

Here are some pictures from the lake of the monster.

Later I will show you  a step by step how to for filleting and making some of the best smoked fish ever.

10.5 Pounds 26 inches Rainbow Trout

I am not at the Ocean.

I was lucky enough to get in on Battle melon and red pepper flakes on FoodieFights.com ! Its on battle between 6 chefs via the internet. I am really lucky with the ingredients, they both are some of my favorite things, fire and ice of the flavor palate. So go check out their site, and on Tuesday June 2nd go vote for your favorite.

Hope It me!!

So I was lucky enough to be a part of the first ever Flavors of Colorado Springs! It was held Friday May 8th at the Antlers Hilton downtown Colorado Springs. It was good time!

This is the menu that I served.

Blue crab crusted tangerine poached  green lip mussels

Roasted blue marlin with watermelon mango salsa

Grilled Ribeye wrapped Asparagus with Oyster mushroom balsamic reduction

Pan seared Hebi with broccoli blue cheese mashed potato

Mini banana peach pancakes

Its that time of the month again!

ABC 7 Sunday morning news 5/3, times are 7:45, 9:15 and, 9:30!

This time we are making fun breakfast foods:

• Basil pesto eggs with crispy ham(Green eggs and ham!)
• Glazed doughnut french toast, Yes I did say glazed doughnut french toast!
• To finish it all off: banana pancakes.

Peter from Ice Cream Alchemy whipped up some amazing favors, pesto, cornflake milk, and glazed doughnut. The cornflake milk is epic, it tastes just like the milk in the bottom of the bowl after cornflakes but it’s ice cream!!!

So be sure to tune in Sunday morning!