Farm Dinner: Cooking and having fun in the rain!

The weather for our event was rain, wind and chilly temperatures. I have to admit we thought no one would show up. Early in the evening I ran outside and saw the tables filling up and became excited and inspired to see how many did brave the elements and come help us celebrate the restaurant’s anniversary.

I want to thank everyone from the bottom of my heart who came early and helped us set up in the pouring rain. We couldn't have pulled it off.

Jeff, our intern, rounded up some fellow students to pitch in, my best friends Lee Ann and Micheal came from New Jersey to support us, Lee cooked all the pizza's and helped Tony on the grill, my Mom iced cupcakes, Charles Town Jr. Garden Club did all the beautiful floral arrangements, J&D Meats chickens rule, the Bread Guild from the Burr Farm baked and donated all the delicious bread, Bill's Tudor Hall Farm provided us all the squash and pumpkin for the soup, the sausage on the pizza and those yummy salad turnips and Rob from Claymont Farm grew the most tasty salad greens I have ever eaten!

All in all I felt our event was successful and well received.

We will plan another dinner for the spring and hopefully will attract new farms, rally more of the community to be involved and sell more tickets.

Farm Dinner

Sweet Thank You

A beautiful card from Victoria, our flutist for Sunday brunch. She definitely captured the scene!

Kitchen Fun

Kitchen Shenanigans

I have to ask forgiveness to be gone from my blogging.......it has been a bit hectic around here! Plus I dropped my camera in the stock pot while taking pictures of the farm dinner action and yesterday finally had time to go buy another camera. Tonight I was figuring out all the camera gadgets taking pictures of my adorable kitchen crew. They are such stars!

Left to right....Dane, our dishwasher, ninja, comic, and official taste tester

Amy aka hamster, ham bone, the list goes on......without Amy there would be no Dish. As pictured she is sauteing but can do everything and has recently taken on the grill, which is a difficult station and is mastering it. She is my right hand and the hardest working most dedicated kitchen person I could ever wish for, love ya ham bone...

Tony, lunch, prep and grill cook.....he has the best personality ever. Nothing gets him down. He is our resident DJ and gets us moving when are body and bones say no! We recently lost a cook and Tony stepped up and is doing an amazing job.

We are missing Jeff...he is at school tonight but I will get a shot of him posted. He is presently in culinary school and is filling the position of intern. Another hard worker invested in our commitment of farm to table.

Tomorrow I will post the farm dinner pictures. It was beautiful and the food was delicious. I was sad because of the rain but around 60 guests showed their support and braved the weather.

More about everything later, have to go help kitchen clean up!