Back from Salisbury

He people, if anyone cares, I'm back from Salisbury. I'll have an interesting story or food recipe up soon, I'm just starting to get my life organized again.


Keep cooking!

Matthew

To Whom it may concern...

I'm sorry I haven't posted anything new in a few weeks. I've been out of town in Salisbury, North Carolina on a restaurant opening and have pretty much doing nothing but eat, sleep, breath, Olive Garden for the last 7 or 8 days....


There are some new items coming from Olive Garden that when I have a few more minutes I will blog about,

until then,

God Bless

Coming to an Olive Garden near you....

So I've mentioned already that I'm doing an opening for Olive Garden in Salisbury, NC last week and this week. I've learned a ton about the company and the standards they have and am grateful for the chance I have to be apart of the opening.

During the week I've had the chance to see some new menu items that are coming out to a Olive Garden near you:

Lasagna Frittas: Fried Lasagna essentially. This a fried appetizer, and it's a pretty decent one at that. Platted up on a rectangle white plate with 2 ounces of Alfredo Sauce for a bed. The 3 squares are cut in half and arranged like tombstones in the sauce. Then you take 2 ounces of marinara sauce and ladle it over the top of the squares. Italian cheese blend is then sprinkled over the top of that, and it's served! It's good, though I'm not sure of the price at the moment.

Zeppoli: A dessert and basically a fried doughnut. www.allrecipes.com has a decent recipe online. On this dish, 8 pieces of dough are fried off for 3 minutes and put in a sugar bag which is shaken and put on a plate with a cup of chocolate sauce.

There is also another dessert which is pretty good and will rival the Chocolate black tie mousse.