Monday, September 27, 2010

Cart Menu 5, Justice League of street food and beyond

We will be at Civic Center Eats tomorrow for the last time this season.


Slushie

Chai Tea $3


Small plate

Grilled marinated potrebella with

haystack mountain Feta $4


Creme brulee

Traditional creme brulee with banana foster $4


Liquid Nitrogen Popcorn

Peanut butter $2


Ice cream sammie

#1 Espresso fudge cookie, whipped marshmallow

summer strawberry ice cream $4


“Kool-aid”

Mango rimmed with chili sugar $1


Sorbet

Coconut with brown sugar pineapple $4


Ice cream

“berry sundae” Sweet strawberry ice cream

with blueberry bubbles and blackberry pop rocks $4


Space Foam

Popcorn



Friday we have a entire menu planned around the secret theme for the Justice League of Street Foods event. Can you guess the theme?


MIAMI VICE “Kool-aid”

Mango rimmed with chili sugar $1


A CHRISTMAS STORY Special drink

Hot Chocolate with frozen whipped cream $3


BACK TO THE FUTURE Ice cream Sammie

Strawberry ice cream, whipped marshmallow

fudge espresso cookie $4


COCKTAIL Sorbet

Coconut sorbet with grilled pineapple and

brown sugar bubbles $4


SMURF Space Foam

Smurf berry $3


PRETTY IN PINK Ice cream

Summer strawberry with white chocolate pop rocks $4


SIMPLY IRRESISTIBLE Creme brulee

Traditional with banana foster $4



As the seasons are changing, our plan for the cart will continue into the winter at the Colorado Convention Center. We will be setting up for our first convention on October 18, 19, and 20th.

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Sparkopolis

After 6 months of preparation and many sleepless nights we executed Sparkoplis. It took a lot of planning and help from my sisters Rachael and Kaylie and team of professional friends to pull it off. Here is a link to the article in the Denver Post about charity events this summer.





Passed appetizers


Colorado lamb meatball wrapped in angel hair and rosemary


Roasted sweet Colorado corn and apple shooters


Smoked Rainbow trout Bruschetta


Chef’s garden grown vegetable kabobs with sweet pea pesto


Long family pork belly sliders with asian slaw and hoison aioli


Rocky ford melon pipettes with serrano peppers and proisutto



Food Entertainment Stations


Cheese

Baked rolls and sesame crackers from City Bakery

Artisan cheese from Haystack Mountain Dairy


Goat cheese baked in olive oil and rosemary


Pickled watermelon and mint with feta


Creamy buttercup with Colorado peach chutney


Snowdrop with jalapeno caramel


Tamale

Hand rolled mini tamales with red chili or green chili and pork

Featuring Colorado cheeses,farm to table vegetables and unique sauces


Cotijo cheese, Asadero, western slope corn, hatch chili, chef grown tomatoes

yuzu avocado and black olive chipotle


Colorado poured bar


Featuring

Cottonwood cellars, Debuque canyon winery

Great divide and Breckenridge brewery

Stanahan’s whiskey, Colorado vodka and Montanya rum


Creation Stations

Bar

Stanahan’s whiskey caviar and cream


Montanya rum carbonated over vanilla ice cubes


Colorado vodka peach martini with strawberry pop rocks



Ice cream station


Strawberry mint ice cream, hot fudge ice cream and Madagascar vanilla sorbet made with liquid nitrogen. Topping bar includes:


Exploding banana whipped cream, chocolate bubbles, pineapple bubbles, frozen caramel rocks, coconut marshmallows, mint paper and carbonated cherries

Monday, September 20, 2010

Cart Menu 4

This past week was exhausting, I am still wondering how we made it . Here was our schedule:
Saturday-Sparkopolis, Sunday- Nick and Petra's wedding, Monday- Slow foods dinner, Tuesday- Civic center, Wednesday- Tiri's garden, Thursday- Justice league, Friday- Wedding tasting. We took the weekend off to decompress and now we are getting ready for this week. We will be at Civic center on Tuesday and Westword's Dish event on Wednesday night. Here is our cart menu for this week:

Slushie

Chai tea $3


Soup

Chilled red pepper with haystack mountain feta $4


Creme brulee

whole raspberries with raspberry sugar $4


Liquid Nitrogen Popcorn

Black truffle $2


Ice cream sammie

#1 Espresso fudge cookie, whipped marshmallow

caramel ice cream $4


“Kool-aid”

Coconut pineapple with mojito sugar $1


Sorbet

Blueberry pomegranate $4


Ice cream

Melissa’s caramel with sea salt and peanut

butter pop rocks $4


Space Foam

Popcorn $3


Yogurt meringue sticks $2


Thursday, September 2, 2010

Cart Menu 3

We will not be doing the street cart next week. We will be shopping and prepping for our Sparkoplis event. We will return to the streets on September 21 at civic center eats and September 22 and 23 at Tiri's garden at 15th and California. Here is the menu for that week

Slushie

Chai tea $3


Soup

Pineapple consommé with frozen pineapple foam $4


Creme brulee

Burned with cappuccino sugar $4


Ice cream sammie

#1 Espresso fudge cookie, whipped marshmallow

caramel ice cream $4

#2 Coconut macaroon, lemon curd, raspberry sorbet $4


“Kool-aid”

Fruit punch with strawberry fizzy pop rocks $1


Sorbet

Raspberry sorbet with Ian’s carbonated lemonade $4


Ice cream

Melissa’s caramel with sea salt crust $4


Space Foam

Chocolate and mint from our garden $3


Popcorn

Hatch chili $3


Yogurt meringue sticks $2