Chef Demonstration

Another good day of classes...I know some more Italian...Io sono ragazzo americano e studente dell' accademio culinario italiano. Just a little something for you and hopefully more to come.

But on to the exciting part of the day. There was a guest chef demonstration at the school today and the guest chefs were the Lee Brother's. Famous for their mail order catalogue for broiled peanuts and other fine southern food products. They also have two cookbooks out: Their first, The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook and just released Simple Fresh Southern. Also have done travel and food writings for the New York Times, Travel & Leisure, Food & Wine, and Martha Stewart Living. It was a great demo and they explained how they got started in cooking and a mail order food service to now having two cookbooks and being on Foodnetwork and the Today Show. They cooked three of their recipes for us which were all very good. The first was their cabbage and lime salad with roasted peanuts. Second they served us collard greens with poblano chiles and chorizo which was excellent and i am not a big fan of collard greens but these were excellent. Finally we had braised oxtails with simple grits. Another excellent dish, the meat just fell off the bone and was so savory and flavorful and went great with the grits.

If anyone wants the recipes I can email them to you. Also some pictures were added and i will continue to update them.

Ciao!