Cameras Rolling

Yesterday was filming day for my Master Chef video. I started out with a quick little introduction and a mini-tour of the kitchen and my cookbooks in the dining room. I also introduced Marley to the lobster I was about to cook. And what a day of cooking it was! I began this little venture around 2:30pm and put the last of the food in the fridge at 9:30pm. I made my signature Master Chef dish, the Thai lobster with noodles, and had 5 friends over for dinner (6 including baby Caleb, but he ate some noodles too!), and plated them some dim sum appetizers and sushi to start. In the meantime, while filming snippets of this cooking process, I also assembled and starting baking a homemade lasagna. After they left and I cleaned up all the plates, I made some gnocchi with butternut squash, asparagus, and pine nuts, as previously featured. I wanted to make enough food to show off several different styles of cooking, but also to feed us for the next three days, because I have three 12-hour ER shifts in a row. The one thing I didn't get to was a white chicken and lime chili that I was going to crock pot, but only because I was going to use a rotisserie chicken for it, and neither the commissary nor Price Cutters had any yesterday, and within the 7 hours of cooking and entertaining, I had no time to go back and get one.

It all turned out well, despite my spilling the leftover lasagna sauce (Mar cleaned it up for the camera) and my (inadvertent) setting off of the smoke alarm for the cameras too... Woops! Hopefully they like my video... if I can get it to burn! (Don't rename the video files if you have a digital camcorder! They won't play back on the camera again!) Bon Appetit!