Saturday, May 2, 2009

LG Event at Georgia World Congress Center (Friday)

This weekend was a really big weekend for Blais and TrailBlais! The Kitchen and Bath Industry Show was at the Georgia World Congress Center and LG had Blais come in and do demos today and Saturday. After each demo, we would produce the canapes to serve to the groups of people coming up to watch.
I met with Blais on Monday to discuss the event and figure out on what I needed to do to get started! Tuesday I began ordering all the produce, proteins and ingredients needed to get us through the entire weekend of, for the lack of a better term, catering!
On Wednesday, Justin and Sean began prepping some of the items that we needed to get ready. I had spent the morning on the phone and online ordering more items, making sure orders were coming in and coordinating the group of people we had working with us. After I finished work that night, I helped the guys finish up a few things and finally got to bed around 3am! Got up at 7am on Thursday and to work at 9am. Me, Justin and Sean all had to work at FLiP until 3pm and then after we were doing nothing but prep, prep, prep! Around 5'ish, Blais called me and told me we all needed to get to FLiP to film a line up. We had a camera following us around and filming us for a possible reality tv show!
So our prepping got delayed several hours! We finally got back to working on stuff around 6'ish and I headed to Whole Foods to pick up a few other ingredients and meet the vendor to pick up our 500 quail eggs! While I was at the store, Blais called and said I needed to get to the Congress Center by 8pm so the camera guy could interview me along with the producer.
The guys and I got back to FLiP around 11'ish and got started on the rest of the stuff we needed to get done by 6am! We ended up working until 3:30am, going home to shower and change and get back to FLiP to finish everything else! Oh last night was crazy and now today was going to be long and grueling!
We had Karen Ann there with her camera taking pictures of the day...here are some of the pictures from the day.
Our to do list! (it had been put to use a little! lol) Part of the LG set Me setting up equipment Sean talking about quail eggs Blais and Stacey getting ready for a demo Blais on stage Rachel, Stephanie, Me and Blais Peeling quail eggs! Quail eggs on a water bath Me and Stacey whispering :) Blais and Stacey on the set...camera guy over his shoulder Stacey and Blais during a demo Plating the pancakes, poached quail eggs, pork belly and whipped maple foam Sean checking the whipped maple Me and Sean plating Blais's final plating Me charming the folks :) Stephanie and Jared putting the mango smoothies together with nitrogen fried micro cilantro Sean on camera while we were being filmed Me giving direction... Me and Stephanie working on plating Adam, Justin, Stacey and Stephanie Jared discussing liquid nitrogen Me, Rachel and Justin Blais on set again for the next demo Roasted Fingerling Potatoes, Filet Mignon, Horseradish Foam and Cold Pea Soup Sean cutting the Pizza Primavera Phillip and Adam setting up the cold pea soup I got a little frustrated by what was going on and not happening, so I pulled the troops together and gave them a little talking to... Rachel's turn to charm the crowd Me and Blais on the set for the last demo Spilling nitrogen out on the counter

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