Menu Development

So many of you have asked about what goes into making recipes in a professional restaurant environment. Let me tell you folks, it’s not as easy as it sounds.

For instance, we are working on a new Far East menu.  These days we have a lot of clients who are vegetarian or vegan, so we have to come up with certain menus that satisfy this kind of audience

So the first step is you have to get a laundry list of different entrees and side dishes that you like.

Where do you find these things? Well, we find them on the internet, cookbooks, emails to our customers, and our own experience from different items we might have made in the past. 

Then, you have to work through each idea. Write down recipes  for each idea and then cook them all different ways.  You can’t just cook them once. You have to keep cooking them until you are sick of looking at them and tasting them and you know, you’ve got it just about right.

Now we are about half way there with our Far East section of our catering menu. We have Indian, Korean, Chinese, Siamese, Thai, etc.

Maybe some of you can give us your feedback or even come on in and cook up your specialty for us!!!