LEARNING WITH LULA
Corporate Meetings, Corporate Fun, Girls Night, Couples Night!
Health Benefits of Chocolate – Indulge in a savory and sweet meal or bites prepared and served using Cacao, a breakdown of chocolate types, and historical tidbits. Always fun, and delightfully sciency! Really fun for a unique Bridal Shower, Valentine’s Day Party or Sweetest Day Party. ADD:
Wine Pairings
Bourbon Pairings
BOTH Pairings!
Aphrodisiac Seminar – Another really fun idea for a Bachelorette Party, Bridal Shower, and lover’s holidays – a fun presentation including food, explanation and history; alcohol if you want. Champagne IS an official aphrodisiac!
The COW: - Indulge in that most unctuous of proteins: BEEF. A primer and bites or dinner with accoutrement explaining tender cuts vs. connective tissue cuts. Add Wine Pairings if you like; believe it or not different cuts benefit from different types of wine!
The Original Thanksgiving – Delight your palate with updated versions of REAL Thanksgiving food prepared and served from the Natives/Pilgrims with a fun history lesson. Think Polenta, Seafood, Venison - NO TURKEY!
Eating Heart Healthy with Lula – heart healthy food prepared and served, discussing the implications of the ingredients – nutritionals included.
Basic Knife Skills – Hands on seminar, food included. Essential larder preparation (onion, greens, garlic, peppers). Review of essential knives in the kitchen, practice w chef’s knife.
Service Etiquette Seminar (geared toward the service industry).
Corporate Wellness with Lula’s – “Meeting Well” - a brief guide to corporate functions and keeping them healthy for employee productivity. Includes meal (breakfast, lunch – depending on timing)
Feed Your Brain with Lula’s – O.W.N. it! (Oxygen, Water, Nutrients, subcategory off of nutrients: Novelty, Spirituality) – includes food and alcohol if you want it (green tea cocktail and/or red wine.)
Cream of Asparagus Soup
appx half gallon, 250 calories per 8oz serving.
Sauté diced onion in olive oil and salt over medium heat in a 4 quart pot till soft and translucent.
Onion, 1 medium peeled and diced
Seasoning Salt, couple dashes
Olive Oil, 1TBS
Deglaze pan with white wine until reduced by half
White Wine, 1/4C
While onion is softening, peel and dice potato. After white wine is reduced add broth to pot and toss in potatoes. Simmer till potatoes can EASILY be broken with a fork.
Veggie Broth and/or Chicken Broth 6C
Russet Potato, 1 Pound (about 2 medium)
While potatoes are cooking, rinse asparagus and chop into roughly 1 inch pieces, reserving tips for garnish. Add asparagus (not tips) to soup pot and let them cook until potatoes are done.
Asparagus Spears, 1#
Add spices and cream and simmer 8-10 more minutes. If you use half and half you must be sure to add it at the end of cooking as it can “break”. Using immersion blender, beat up the soup until it is as smooth as possible. At this point, the soup is either ready if you like all of the fiber and chunkiness, OR, you can put it through a chinois or fine mesh strainer to make it velvety. If you’re going to serve it chilled this is the best way. Garnish with raw or blanched tips.
Nutmeg, 1/4tsp
Cayenne Pepper, 1/4tsp
Heavy Cream or Half & Half, 1C
SECRET TIP!: If you want a more vibrantly colored soup, blanch your asparagus for 30 seconds in boiling salted water, then remove to iced (literally) water to shock the asparagus. The asparagus will remain much greener through the soup cooking process if you do this.
Lula wishes for you YUMMY IN YOUR TUMMY!
