Executive Kitchen Challenge Menu

2012 Spring Menu Collection | Executive Kitchen Challenge

Embrace Spring and celebrate the season with a selection of hand-picked produce and the highest quality meats for your exciting Kitchen Challenge culinary competition. Our pantry is stocked with the best of ingredients and tasty accoutrements to inspire every guest. With a full pantry of complementary herbs, spices and staples, the cooking possibilities are endless! We are glad to provide for special dietary needs – please let us know.

Parties that Cook will provide an appetizer platter for your guests.

Which daring Executive Kitchen Challenge ingredients will teams face in this culinary showdown? The main ingredients you select from each category below will be the foundation of an exciting 5-star gourmet meal!

Please select ONE ingredient from each of the categories below.

Protein
Center Cut Pork Chops
Flank Steak
Chicken Breast
New York Strip Steak*
Market Fish*

*Additional $10 per person cost

Vegetable
Asparagus
Dino/Lacinato Kale
Sugar Snap Peas

Starch
Orzo Pasta
Quinoa
Marble Potatoes

Dessert
Please select one recipe from the options below:

Warm Chocolate Budino with Salted Caramel
Baby Polenta Cakes with Raspberry Coulis and Amaretto Cream
Individual Almond Butter Cakes with Coconut Cream Frosting and Glazed Almonds
Strawberry and Rhubarb Empanadas with Brown Sugar Whipped Crème Fraiche
Chocolate Nut Pies with Graham Cracker Crust, Soft Chantilly Cream and Raspberries

Once the teams have completed a 2-hour communications workshop with Executive Business Coach, Starla Sireno, they will have 60 minutes to wield their culinary prowess and demonstrate communication skills and teamwork in the kitchen. Each team will submit a plated meal for judging according to taste, seasoning, appearance, texture as well as the originality of the dish, plate presentation and teamwork. The winning team is awarded a special prize, not to mention bragging rights in the office.

At Parties That Cook's Executive Kitchen Challenge, nobody gets a "You're fired." Everybody gets fired up!

Getting hungry? Find fresh recipe ideas in Parties That Cook's recipe library!