On January 18, 2011, my husband participated in the White Plains YMCA 3rd annual Culinary Experience at the Crowne Plaza Hotel to benefit the YMCA’s Scholarship Assistance Program. Several White Plains restaurants supported the event with delicious foods paired with wines by Zachy’s Wine and Liquor. Nirvana Spring Water also sponsored the event. These local restaurants supported a great cause, so please show them your love! 🙂
Tony, Jack, and Rich
My husband prepared 4-alarm chili with beef, lamb, pork, veal, serrano peppers, habaneros, and jalapenos (I had the mess in my kitchen to prove it!) at the White Plains Fire Department table. His colleague, Tony, prepared a milder 2-alarm chili with cubed steak, sausage, and sweet peppers. [At this point, my husband is standing over my shoulder, telling me how important it is to mention that “everybody ate our chili and there was none left at the end of the night.”]
LA PROVENCE
Chicken pot pie with white wine sauce in puff pastry
ROYAL PALACE FINE INDIAN
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MILONGA WINE & TAPAS
Chicken and beef skewers, mini empanadas, duck wrap with chorizo and fig
LA BOCCA RISTORANTE
Oven roasted porketta Roman style with trofie pasta in wild boar ragu
Owner and host Tony Spiritoso making me an exceptionally generous plate of trofie pasta in cinghale ragu
MORTON’S THE STEAKHOUSE
Sliced tenderloin on finger rolls with horseradish sauce
GERVASI’S
Stuffed portobello mushrooms with Italian sweet sausage topped with gorgonzola
HUDSON GRILLE
Crab cake with mango salsa, greens, crispy onion, and chipotle aioli
ECLISSE MEDITERRANEO CUCINA
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