Food, Fun, and Fahrenheit

It might be true. It should be true. Truly, we can't be wrong. Could we? I am pretty confident - as confident as a man could be in the hourly change of weather that is Calgary - that spring has finally sprung. With double digit positive temperatures for the next week or so, American friends please use Google to understand the Celsius scale, we might see the six foot piles of ice gracing the edge of everyone's driveway shrunk to a mere foot or so. Look at me being bilingual, both metric and imperial in the same paragraph.

Soon Sadie will be back in the Bow

What is watched by more people tonight, the NCAA final or the Voice? Discuss.

A shout out to our friend Liz who took the lead when John failed in the weekly duty of organizing us for a weekly trot. Here is her successful walk in the high altitude of Kananaskis. She is truly an inspiration and a trooper!

Merlin at full attention

I will be busy with a home delivery Tuesday, hockey tournament Thursday, with the group Saturday, Stampede Parade selection committee part two next Tuesday, then not back in the time zone until Thursday the 24th. Since we are around on Saturday the 12th let's trot from Glenmore Landing at 9 am. See you at McDonald's. 

So I have been a rather delinquent trotter these last few weeks. Some has been weather related, some committee volunteering, while other was due to work. Last week I had both the pleasure and pain of selecting the corporate and non-profit floats that will travel the four miles of the Stampede Parade. While we have some great new entries this year I had to cut some long term entrants because they just didn't make the grade. It will be an interesting next couple of months.

As for work I had the pleasure of attending our annual President's Gala last week. Six courses of student created delicacies made for a long but rewarding evening of culinary excellence. Sorry to brag, but here are the courses I had to eat. I hate my job, but I give the students an A for all aspects!

goat cheese panna cotta with lemon gel, beets, and arugula

Oops, forgot that there was white wine here...township 7 Unoaked Chardonnay, no photo from the event, but just imagine me drinking. Go ahead, tough to visualize.

line caught wild spring salmon with pickled fennel, red grapes, salted caramel,
grapefruit beurre blanc, sweet potato pave

Aberta Beef, roast striploin & braized shoulder, caramelized onion Jus, horseradish relish,
blue cheese potato, brussels sprouts, turnips

Township 7 Merlot and Maculan, Dindarello Moscato IGT, Italy

Alberta Pecorino & fresh organic ricotta cheeses with celery leaf pesto,
wild foraged huckleberry cumberland sauce

Dark Chocolate mousse, chili cinnamon spiced cake, lychee gelee and marinated fruit.

and because I couldn't eat it all Thursday, the takeaway which I took to Copper Point in Invermere
Macaroons and shortbread.

That is not what I get to experience every day, but I do believe we have some great students who hopefully will become outstanding chefs.

 See you all soon.