Life in the Valley: Say hello to my MacBook Pro!

Wednesday was a good day. Not only did I finally received my battery charger for my camera I also made it to Madison (with 32 seconds to spare) before the post office closed and was able to pick up my new (to me) MACBOOK PRO!!!! I won it on an ebay auction and am so excited to not only have a laptop, but a macbook and not only a macbook, but a macbook pro! This is the first post from my fancy new computer, that I affectionately named Baby Dorf. Although, my desktop (named Leydorf) is feeling a little neglected, I am quite certain I have enough Mac love for both of them.

This weekend at the restaurant was relatively low key. We were busy both Thursday and Friday nights with no new dishes from my station. Today I got to get out of the kitchen heat and into the heat of the actual sun! Chef took myself and one other guy to help him with an off-site event called Burgers & Brews. It was a fund raiser for a program based out of Pennsylvania called Buy Fresh Buy Local hosted by REAP Food Group and Capitol Brewery. It brought local chefs, brewers and farmers together for one tasty afternoon! It gives me chills just thinking about it. This is exactly the kind of thing I wish I saw more of in Michigan. The kind of thing we strive to do with Tilling to Table; bridge the gap between farmer, chef and consumer. (Why did we never think to throw beer in there??) Each chef was paired with a brewery and created a burger to pair with two of their brews. We were one of 12 food vendors and we were paired with Grumpy Troll brewery. I might be bias but, we had the best burger. Mini bovine burgers from Fountain Prairie Farm grassfed Highland cattle topped with house made brat, Hook's Stinky Fotene cheese, house made rhubarb-pickled ramp mayo and sweet-sour pickled spring radish busting out of a brioche bun (house made, of course!). I'm not sure how many people attended the event, but I know we made 350 burgers and were sold out before the end of the event! It was such a great day to be grilling out, sipping a cold beer and getting paid! To top it off, I was done by 730! on a saturday! unheard of! Certainly nothing to complain about!