Personal Chef Dinners. I was recently invited again by SPIN Inc.
for a Personal Chef Dinner. It's pretty awesome what they do.
The reason I was there was for a 'winners' dinner' which is
exactly what it sounds like. A dinner for the 15 winners.
Spin runs fitness challenges and contests for their employees
every few weeks and the winners received a Personal Chef Dinner
along with their certificates! How cool is that at a work place?!!
I think it's a win, win, win! It's a great way to motivate your employees
along with building stronger bonds and team work within your co-workers.
Receiving a Personal Chef Dinner after your hard work is cool too!
Their winners dinner was in their work cafeteria. It's a great space with
a kitchen attached to it which helps tremendously in preparing the food,
obviously. I wanted to dress up the table a little bit even though it's a
work lunch area with a green table cloth (their logo color) and a few
tissue paper pom poms... which is always an easy way to dress up the table.
The winners participated in a taste test also. For this group-
the item was cheese. Each participant was able to taste 4 different cheeses
and decide from which it came.
Did it come from a cow, goat, sheep or buffalo?
The results weren't half bad! I think a few people answered a few correctly.
More often than not... people guess completely wrong
but have so much fun guessing!
The menu started with watermelon lemonade with frozen
watermelon cubes in place of ice and with strawberry basil crostinis
with garlic and goat cheese. The strawberries and basil were marinaded
in balsamic vinegar. There were also Vietnamese summer rolls (not pictured)
The main entree was Soba Noodles (gluten-free) mixed with
shredded carrots, sauteed garlic mushrooms and cabbage with
a side salad of tomatoes and spring mix.
As far as the dessert, it was something not too heavy but dessert is dessert
so I cultivated my own banana split and made them into banana split kebabs.
I baked a super moist brownie and a vanilla cake and cut them into
large bite-size cubes. I skewered a mixture of strawberries, bananas,
brownie and vanilla cake pieces and a pineapple just to freshen it up.
I received many compliments even without the ice cream.
Being it was a hot summer day and it was at a company cafeteria-
I decided to 86 the ice cream and it still worked out well!
Plus, it was a winners dinner from a fitness challenge y'all!
Zestfully, Let's Cultivate Food......... day 6 of 31 days
