CAF Eats – Op Mystery Menu: Episode 1
Video / February 13, 2024
Transcript
We have a lot of staff back at our kitchen that are cheering us on.
You always feel like you have enough time.
Damn, I love when great minds think alike.
I'm just going to roll with the punches.
All of a sudden, it's two minutes to plating and you're just starting to plate.
The pressure is definitely on.
I wish I had a sauce for this.
Doughy, not a lot of flavour.
Oh, there's a **** ton of people out there, eh?
The teams today are playing with the mystery ingredients. We have shrimp for the appetizer, we have beef tenderloin for the main, and we have apples for our dessert.
Our team is comprised of the instructors here from CFLCC Food Service Cadre.
We’re at the level where we can take anything and just make it pop, so let's make it pop. We've got this.
So, I picked a pretty good team, a lot of them know my standards. We've done mess dinners together. Go PSS!
The prize is bragging rights of the culinary skills that everybody possesses and an amazing trophy that we have.
I think we all got our hearts in this, that's for sure.
I think it's friendly competition, but still- you kind of want to win, right?
We really wanted to showcase the different things that you could do with shrimp. So, appetizer, we’re going to run a trio of shrimp, we will do shrimp bisque, shrimp fritter, and a shrimp segar.
I think we already had some ideas in our back pocket.
Thinking a fritter or, like, a fried croquette or philo for the appetizer.
Beef tenderloin as the main course. We are going to sous-vide it. We went in the right direction with the encompassing of blueberries into the madeira and into the reduction of veal demi, so I think it's going to be good.
Tenderloin is usually very easy and difficult to work with, as long as you have the right equipment. We will sear them off with garlic and rosemary and baste.
For dessert, we were given the apple. It's a tough one to go off of, not a lot of color you can play with. Do some nice pastry, some nice mousse, and then we're going to finish it off with a little crumble and some good sauce.
Let's go, CFLCC!
I plan on doing an apple crisp cheesecake.
Oof, the curve ball.
The curveball ingredient needed to be incorporated into one of the courses that they had and were providing today.
Up to you.
All right.
A lot of times, teams in a competition like this butt heads.
There was a couple of hiccups.
The blast chiller wasn't getting cold.
The beef is perfectly cooked, but its flavourless.
My goodness.