Chefs in the Garden

Date: Thursday, September 16th

Place: Botanical Gardens in Fayetteville

Time: 4:00 pm

What?: Chefs in the Garden (aka: having a blast meeting TONS of people)

a live band with about 12 different tents occupied by the funky fun places to eat of fayetteville. the university of arkansas student volunteers set up tables and decorated the area before as well as were paired up with a chef for the evening's event.

each chef had a tip jar out where if you liked what they made, you voted for the best chef by putting $$$ in the jar. all of the food that was there was AMAZING. it was a night of food, conversation, and some dancing (my kinda night)

I was paired up with Fayetteville Country Club. i got to plate and hand out the appetizers for the guests as they would form a line in front of our table. my chef's sister was in the band. she was a BLAST and definately gave us a shout out from the front. we had a very colorful spread with buffalo mozzarella bruschetta AND (my personal fav) spring roll baskets.

these things were simply irresistable. wontons made the basket (formed like a chip) with a chicken spring roll filling/topping. the chicken was infused with ginger tea (genius), and to top it all off was a bombDOTcom sauce (a marriage of plum and chili sauces)... party.in.your.mouth.good