/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.4825873]

Hello /ck/
/sp/ here, my fiance has asked that I design a menu for our wedding (former apprenticed chef) I haven't worked in the business for about 9 years and I wanted to see what you all thought about this draft. The theme is southern style comfort food... im thinking of the whole menu being amuse's
>apps
-maryland crabcakes with sweet chili remoulade topped with arugala
-chavre, spinach and mushroom stuffed bacon wrapped pork tenderloin roulade with a chantrelle and black truffle demi glace
>sides
-lobster infused mac & cheese
-sweet potato fries w/ white truffle oil (served in these minature steel fry baskets)
>main
-my dads famous fried chicken (served in minature steel bucket)
- salt and pepper catfish on a potato blini with a red pepper chutney
- my famous carolina chopped pork bbq sliders
>desert
-pecan pie with a blue cheese ice cream
-bread pudding w/ a whiskey cream sauce
-apple crumble w/ vanilla sorbet and maple rhubarb sauce

any ideas?? i need some vegetable ideas for sides
thanks

[Anonymous No.4825880]

Screams try hard, dude.

[Social Haze (Previously Sceak) !!b5Dh2e2S/Jf No.4825876]

>>4825873

I think /ck/ is becoming too old for me.

[Anonymous No.4825884]

>>4825880
yeah i was worried about being pretentious.. but i mean its a wedding... and these fuckers expect me to chef it up.

[Anonymous No.4825888]

>>4825880

Well, it's supposedly a once in a lifetime thing, so why not try hard?

You need to add Shrimp 'n grits somewhere in there.

[Anonymous No.4825893]

>>4825888
ahh shit i totally forgot about that

[Anonymous No.4825894]

>>4825884
Well if you're cooking for your own wedding, you're fucked anyways.

[Anonymous No.4825899]

>>4825894

That too. You should be enjoying your wedding with your bride, not sweating it out in the kitchen while yelling at servers.

[Anonymous No.4825902]

>>4825873
>maryland crab cakes

if you aren't from maryland don't bother you'll cock it up with a bunch of bullshit. Crab, Cracker, Old bay, maybe mayo. Thats it.

It does seem a little try hard but honestly it all sounds good.

[Anonymous No.4825908]

>>4825894
I'm designing the menu I have a catering company that I'm working with... They're pretty good friends of ours but the owner's a nice lady but kinda retarded.. I'll cook examples for some of this and tell them how it needs to be presented

[Anonymous No.4825915]

>>4825902
link to a recipe? I've gotta buddy I used to work with that serves some of the best crab cakes i've ever had i was gonna steal the recipe from him.

[Social Haze (Previously Sceak) !!b5Dh2e2S/Jf No.4825951]

>>4825884

it's your wedding and you're worried about impresing the diners?

wholy mother fucking shit.

D:

[Social Haze (Previously Sceak) !!b5Dh2e2S/Jf No.4825964]

>>4825873

OP, I never thought I would say this of anyone else than my ex-boyfriend, but I really wish you didn't exist.

I hope you burn in hell.

[Anonymous No.4825984]

I understand that you're going for comfort food, and chicken, fish, and bbq are good for that, but you probably should include a vegetarian option.
And it's already been said, but some of that sounds really over the top. If people really expect you to "chef it up" for your OWN wedding, they need to realize that it's about you getting married more than anything else. They don't need to be impressed, they're supposed to be there to celebrate YOUR big day.

[Anonymous No.4826040]

>>4825964
wat

>>4825984
This seems to be the most reasonable post in this thread. Listen to this guy (or gal?)!

[Anonymous No.4826048]

>>4825951
Weddings usually have a lot to do with impressing the people you invite to them.
It's becoming less common now that >>4825984
attitude is becoming more the norm.

[Anonymous No.4826090]

>>4825964
umm... ok?

[Anonymous No.4826095]

>>4825984
yeah i definitely need some vegetarian options, I have quite a few friends that are vegetarian.
what I don't want is to have a nice well thought out menu with the vegetarian option to be very plain which unfortunately is the case in a lot of restaurants.
However, veg food is not my strong point anyone who has suggestions please feel free

[Anonymous No.4826106]

>>4826048
True, I just wasn't sure how much OP wanted to impress them, or if he was just feeling pressured by others. Either way, I forgot that he said a catering company is doing all the prep, he just has to design the menu, so it's not too bad.

>>4826095
Actual feedback:
The stuffed, bacon wrapped, truffle glazed pork tenderloin sounds a bit much for an appetizer, but everything else sounds good, and not too "pretentious".

For veggie sides, maybe something like collard/turnip greens, or some sort of fancy cole slaw. I'm vegetarian myself but I'm having a hard time thinking of a main dish. Maybe a veggie jambalaya.

[Anonymous No.4826108]

>lobster mac and cheese
>sweet potato fries
Ugh. All you need now is red velvet cupcake.

[Anonymous No.4826116]

>>4826108
southern comfort food.

>>4826106
thanks
my mom always does collards with a smoked turkeyneck.. maybe I'll just throw some liquid smoke
Veggie jambalaya.. hmm I'll poke around and see if i can't pull something up... i just thought of fried okra as well.

[Anonymous No.4826118]

>>4825873
>-chavre, spinach and mushroom stuffed bacon wrapped pork tenderloin roulade with a chantrelle and black truffle demi glace
Not an app. Maybe change it to a stuffed mushroom. Also it's a non-meat choice.

>>main
>-my dads famous fried chicken (served in minature steel bucket)
make boneless
>catfish
put on a sweet potato biscuit, or corn muffin, one of my favorite uses for hot pepper jam.
>bbq
carolina style is vinegary heat? Cool itwith a bread n butter pickle, or creamy slaw, OR make the catfish sweet pepper jam

>>desert
>-pecan pie with a blue cheese ice cream
No, in congruent. But, you could have a cheese course.
Overall, it's not quite southern...more comfort. Maple? Apple? Lobster? Blini?

Suggest: bourbon derby pie, making the bread pudding chocolate, and replacing the apple with a banana pudding cheesecake.e

[Anonymous No.4826123]

>>4826116
They shriek try-hard. Lobster? Really?

[Anonymous No.4826142]

>>4826118
GREAT POST!
ok you're right I need to rethink certain items.. corn muffin for blini and jam instead of chutney, i really do love chutney though.
ok you make some seriously valid points
>>4826123
your shitty post actually made me rethink that... I'll go crayfish instead of lobster.
also... what kind of weddings have you guys been going to? every wedding I've been too has top flight food.
and finally, lobster infusion.. meaning that not lobster in it.. I can get shells and scraps from a friend that owns a restaurant do a redux and add to the mac & cheese

[Anonymous No.4826232]

>>4826142
I've been to a lot of nice weddings. Unless this is a small foodie family you know well? You need to make sure you have at least a good enough option for the lactose intolerant, vegan and a shellfish-free or gluten-free. Consider a no carb eater too, but diabetics are happy with fruit/cheese. At your wedding, you care about everyone. Think about balancing that, or adding southern veggies and a salad.
I also see too much short order frying...tough for a banquet, making fried okra hard. You can keep fried green tomatoes in an oven though.

[Anonymous No.4826269]

>>4825915
ah i'm just being cantankerous about how many times I run into "GENUINE MARYLAND CRAB CAKES!" in a restaraunt and some motherfucker has put tomato and onion or some other horse shit in them.

Crabcakes are simplicity itself. As long as your friends recipe doesn't call for a lot of extra filler shit it's fine.

you can stealth-stretch real crab by adding krab, which on it's own is obviously not crab, but hard to spot when mixed with the real thing

Are you going to be having a staff at all, how big is the wedding party, etc?

[Anonymous No.4826270]

>>4825873
too much truffle oil.

[Anonymous No.4826484]

>>4826142
other guy was a douche, and lobster mac is great but CRAWfish is a better plan. It goes with the theme better and the meat will be an appropriate size. Consider using Louisiana crab boil seasings. Also, consider some nice Oyster-raw or rockefeller. The absinthe in the rockefeller might be a nie flavor change for the menu? (source: I was a cook in south).

[Anonymous No.4826505]

>>4826269
The genuine Maryland crab cakes may be the truest thing I have ever read. Ever.

[Anonymous No.4826572]

>>4826505
>live in baltimore maryland whole life
>grew up poooooooor as fuck, no running water til 11, got first actual pair of school shoes at 13
>drunk father had to go and crab trap every night for dinner
>crab cakes
>crab soup
>crabs
>soft crabs
>cream of crab
>leftover crab
>then on sunday mom made spaghetti as our special weekly dinner
that was our menu. 100% serious. poor as fuck. i fucking hate crabs. we had crabs 313 days out of the year. fucking hell growing up poor sucked.

[Anonymous No.4826577]

>>4826572
oh and i had to drop out of school in the 7th grade because older brother got sick and i had to help my father fish.

[Anonymous No.4826579]

>>4826572
You got burned out on crabs. Can happen with any food, but it's a shame it had to happen to such a good one (assuming your mother was a decent cook).

[Anonymous No.4826590]

>>4826579
fantastic cook. they where awesome, but soon realized it would be a reoccurring thing.