Informal and Formal Dinners this week.

This week has continued our series of formal and informal dinners aimed toward recruiting for the house. The informal is served family style and is a bit fancier than our normal buffet service, and the formal is plated with waiter service. This week for the informal I did a jerk chicken with a black bean and corn relish and mashed sweet potatoes. The star was the Caribbean salad with seared green bananas, edible orchids, and a banana vinaigrette

. For the formal we had a spinach bruschetta and gazpacho shooters in the reception area, and served grilled flank steak with roasted shallot sauce, asparagus, and wild rice with cranberries and walnuts.