Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Sheep Vamp Tries Something - not successful

Sheep vamp took a jump out of my pocket yesterday morning when I was getting the paper. He was hiding under a tree awaiting our first snow (which came today) and hoping to get first dibs on the blood of some stranded motorists. 

However, it rained pretty hard before it changed to snow and he got wet and cold. I found him this am. getting the paper today

Thursday, November 6, 2014

A Pumpkin Enhanced Conference

The Israel -American Council is having a conference over the weekend. The caterer is the one I am working with today.


About 700 people are eating there (several meals). The menu is pretty standard, i.e., many pastries, breads, meats, hummus, root vegetables, etc. Nothing particularly unusual. However, there is something different about this conference.


The dining area is to be decorated with a dozen large (20# of so) pumpkins and several dozen small (8 oz or so) pumpkins.

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Red Lobster Hones its Core Compentancy

Red Lobster has been losing sales lately. The previous owner of the company, Darden Restaurants, Inc. (which also owns Olive Garden), had revised the menu to add non seafood dishes such as a tortilla dish and a grilled pork meal. However, new management, no doubt advised by a certain crustacean lobbyist who suggested a way to exceed their benchmarks (second image), now thinks that they should focus on seafood. The image of food is Red Lobster's  'Ultimate Seafood Feast" which has, shrimp, salmon and, of course lobster.

Interestingly, another change the company is making is that they are using slightly smaller plates with higher outside lips and piling the seafood on top of the rice instead of having a rice pilaf next to the seafood on bigger flatter plates. The reason is that the smaller plate protocol results in food staying hot longer and also passively spreads the seafood flavor to the rice.

Article from the Honolulu newspaper is here .