This past week, I got to go to a food tasting for an annual gala held in September. My COS, chief of staff, was unable to go, mainly because it takes about 2 hours of your day, so he nominated me from our office because of my LOVE for food, especially desserts. I, of course, was very appreciative of this and accepted to attend.
So I get to the Convention Center to meet up with the other people from the organization at noon. They take us through everything. The tables, the center pieces, the linen. I feel a bit of an outcast. Mainly because I’m the only one from a participating Member’s office but I’m familiar with the event and know that it means a lot to a lot of different people.
Finally we get to the tasting room which is set up beautifully with different center pieces and the ways the tables can be the day of the event. I was more concerned with the food.
This is all the possible dishes as they would be served. I would have been okay eating each and every one of them. I’m like a cow, I have four stomachs. At least I like to think so. I, of course, was interested in the desserts.
I would have had them all right then and there if could have. Yes, there are SEVEN different options.
First, the salads came out…
Upper left was some sort of red snapper. The fish was a bit rubbery because it was out for a bit so we nixed that option since salads would already be plated once guest arrive. Upper right is a red and yellow beet salad. This was honestly my first time eating beets. Is it just me or do they kind of taste like corn? Not my favorite. Lower right was a duck and bean salad with a mango salsa on top. Mango salsa, amazing. White beans, amazing. Duck, tasted Chinese. That’s the best way I could explain it. Tasty but for a Latino oriented event, may not be the best. My favorite was the lower left, “Love from Peru.” It has a marinade shrimp with a great “potato salad” made the way it’s made in Peru. I loved it!!
Next came the main course.
Excuse me for starting to devour my food before I took a picture of everything. There was, from upper left, filet mignon, rib eye, crab stuffed chicken, and halibut in a wonderful cream sauce and capers. The chipotle mashed potatoes with cijotle cheese served with the chicken was melt-in-my-mouth amazing!! I could have had a bowl of just that and been perfectly satisfied. And the filet mignon, wow. No words. Very tasty but I was so ready for….
DESSERTS AND LOTS OF THEM!! There was chocolate, mocha, cake, pie (not pictured), and others. (I’m drooling in my mouth just looking at this picture.) Everything was so delicious. Of course, some were better than others. The mocha cake, lower left, had a very strange texture and the banana cake, upper left, well, tasted like bananas so that was a no go for me. But I loved everything else.
Of course, my wonderful lunch had to come to an end and I had to hop in a cab to get back to work. Needless to say, I had the best lunch EVER!! (Sure beat the left-overs I was going to have that day.) And my job rocks.
