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It was pretty much amazing. Did I mention the pumpkins for the soup (possibly my favorite part of the whole meal) were grown in our garden?
Skip the cooking and cleaning and join us next year!
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…A couple nights ago I was at a Red Cross charity event up in Snow Basin here in Utah, its a very large, very shee shee chi chi ski resort about 20 minutes drive from my house…we were there, my staff and I, to do a bunch of nice food, as well as were some other restaurants with ‘chefs’ as opposed to your average like McDonald’s which admittedly are more popular here, but the Salt Lake City crowd does have a few nice restaurant diners types…anyway…we’re just loading in all of our equipment at the event’s beginning and I was standing on the parking lot looking up at the mountain when my guys are moving a big ice thing inside the lodge and this guy walks up…this is a true story…completely…this guy walks up to me, he appears as if out of nowhere, I swear and he’s like 70ish with hiker’s clothes on and he has a big gold chain around his neck with a star of David on it, he is walking with a cane and he has these big sunglasses and he goes hey are you guys working hard? I could sense right away this guy was a spiritual being, a kind of guy that didn’t need me to be trying to be creative with him or anything…just real…so I go, no, we’re hardly working (which is the stock answer of course…working hard or hardly working? Yuk yuk) and he gets this look behind these huge glasses and he smiles and says with a hardcore NY accent ‘now that’s the answer. That’s what I’m talking about my man’ his spirit is smiling and laughing…and me too. We had an instant rapport…sometimes you get that from honest people…I said what are you doing out here?He said, I’m from NY
I said I guessed that.
He said have you been there?
I said, oddly enough, I was just there in April. I was visiting a few people I know in Brooklyn and my uncle in Manhattan.
He said I’m from Queens. Did you get to Queens?
I said no I didn’t go to Queens when I was there.
You didn’t miss much.
We both laugh…he’s the only guy outside for a hundred miles…the guests haven’t arrived…it was weird…
He goes hey you know where I can get a coffee or tea?
I said I bet I can find someone with coffee so follow me and let’s get you one. What are you doing out here?
We go inside the gigantic lodge and there’s a hundred cooks/chefs and waiters in there preparing for the event but no one has coffee. I’m walking around asking everyone where’s the coffee. I’m doing all I can to be getting this guy a coffee…I eventually get someone in the main kitchen to get me a coffee in a paper cup and a sugar bowl and some half and halfs…then I started looking for the guy, the Snow Ghost…I called him that because he just disappeared. I was there in my capacity of Executive Chef Rickenbacker’s/Sonora Grill…doing my thing, leading cooks in the making of the fine foods and shmoozing guests…except my cooks are putting me on. Pretending they didn’t see the guy…
I don’t know, Chris. You’re finally slipping. I didn’t see no old man.
Yeah, sure Chef, right…little old man with a cane…riiight…
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Downtown Ogden’s only Community Garden, The Oasis is located between 24th and 25th and between Monroe and Madison…it’s not super well known yet…it’s by that 7-11 where all the Ogden PD are always hanging out…the neighborhood has fallen into disrepair, to say the least, and those of us who live in the community want to be part of bringing that area back to life. The Sonora Grill and Rickenbacker’s employees went to the Oasis Saturday morning and did some maintenance …shoveled some mulch, picked up some trash, pulled weeds…left no garbage behind…If you want to do something to satisfy your soul, hit the Oasis, bring a friend and a Frisbee…volunteer a little time to checking in on the place. Bring the kids…It’s fun, free and easy.
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Still looking for the perfect father’s day gift for dad? Bring him to our sister restaurant, Rickenbacker’s bistro. We’ll be serving a BBQ lunch buffet from 11am to 4pm, Sunday June 20. Can’t wait to see you there!
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Bacon Wrapped Shrimp
Pistachio Crusted Halibut
Grilled Tenderloin
Cheesecake
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