Today was the women in business meeting that Adrienne and I were in charge of and had been prepping for a couple days. I got to school and checked on Adrienne who had to plate up 50 desserts. They took her several hours to get situated.
Here is the plating design we came up with:
And here is the final product:
It was so crazy delicious and the passionfruit sauce definitely made this dessert awesome!
After I checked on her and made sure she was situated, I went to go find enough plates for everything and started plating salads. We just did a baby green salad with croutons and raspberry vinaigrette.
While Adrienne and I spent forever plating salads and desserts, Rex started making our rice blend. We decided to go with wild rice, white rice and spelt (wheat). Once finished, it would be lightened up a tad with some orange zest (which also complimented the pork).
After I finished salads, I got started on my pork. I had to dry them, coat them in a corn starch mixture and then brown them all. After they were all browned and covered in my glaze I put them in the oven to finish cooking. We pulled them out of the oven at 140 degrees and let them rest. Pulling them out at 140 made them the juiciest piece of pork I've ever seen. Usually when I see pork, it is dry as can be!
When everybody had arrived and they were ready to go John and I started plating the pork. There were 45 people and our room was jam packed with tables so it was hard to maneuver around them to hand out the food, but we managed. It just took a little longer than normal.
Here is the plate we served them:
While we were serving Rex was doing a demo for the ladies and he ended up showing them exactly how we cooked their pork for their lunch. After we finished serving them he called Adrienne and I up to the front and introduced us to the ladies and had us tell them a little bit about ourselves and why we were there. They asked a couple questions and then we headed back into the kitchen.
After everything was over and Adrienne and I were finished cleaning up we were standing in front of the ice machine and Rex comes walking by pretty fast and I needed to ask him a question so I said "Rex!" and he turned and when he turned his coat snagged on the steam kettle and ripped open in one swift movement. He turned bright red! It was hilarious! He turned and looked at us and said in a quiet voice, "If I would have had normal buttons, they would have all been on the floor!" We laughed about it for a long time.
All in all it was a good day and it went well. I was really happy with the way everything turned out.
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