Smoked St Louis ribs, glazed with reduced apple cider in the last thirty minutes of the cook. I made smoked St Louis ribs for a sixtieth birthday BBQ on the first weekend of May at a Newport vacation rental the family had taken for the weekend. Twenty guests, outdoor patio, the first evening of the…
Carolina pulled pork sliders, served at a sixtieth birthday BBQ on the first weekend of May at a Newport vacation rental the family had taken for the weekend. Twenty guests, outdoor patio, drinks in hand, no one wanting to sit down yet. The wife had planned the menu around her husband’s favorite dishes. He grew…
Some links in this post are affiliate links. If you buy through them, I may earn a small commission at no cost to you. I only recommend gear I actually use in my private chef kitchen. Private dinner, Watch Hill, late July. Cauliflower bites salsa verde for ten guests on a shingle-cottage porch. The cottage…
This sweet potato bisque came out of a private chef seasonal menu tasting in Providence, late October. The clients had booked a private chef dinner through Partum Events and sent me the most interesting brief I’d gotten all fall: they didn’t want a list of dishes. They wanted the menu to taste like October. That…
Sweet potato pierogies sage brown butter, plated for a private New Year’s Eve dinner in Boston’s Beacon Hill, December 31st. The apartment sat on Mount Vernon Street in a red-brick row house, four flights up, a kitchen the size of a galley and a dining room built for exactly eight. The host had hired me…
Short rib arancini, Christmas dinner party, Cape Cod, late December. A family home in Falmouth that I still think about. Not because of the kitchen, but because there were four full Christmas trees. Four. One in the entryway, one in the living room, one in the dining room, and one I found in a back…
This Brussels sprout Caesar salad came out of a private dinner at a Newport vacation rental, late July, when the client came home from the farm stand with an unexpected pound of sprouts. She’d spent the morning at the farm stand on West Main Road in Middletown and came back with a bag of peaches…
This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase through them I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Cocktail party, Cape Cod vacation rental, August. The night these jerk chicken skewers became a permanent part of the rotation. The client had rented a house right on the water in Chatham. One…
The first time I made cinnamon spiced lamb lollipops for a client, I was setting up for a cocktail hour at a micro wedding in Newport. Twelve people on a back patio overlooking the water, late August, the kind of evening where the light does most of the work. The couple wanted passed appetizers. Something…
Spring onion pesto focaccia toast was the bite that stopped a room full of people mid-conversation at a micro wedding reception in Newport last April. Twenty guests, a private home on the water, and about a hundred of these toasts moving through the crowd on slate boards. Within ten minutes, three people had pulled me…
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