Wildflowers Kitchen

03/01/2025

Wildflowers is planning on returning first Thursday in February. Had to get carpal tunnel surgery on my other hand today. Apologies for delay ..❤️

26/12/2024

Good morning Wildflowers! Here is what I can offer for delivery on 12/30 in time for holiday hosting:
(1)dozen caprese skewers SOLD!
(1) dozen Italian sausage stuffed mushrooms SOLD!
(2)quarts Gruyere, caramelized onion dip
(1) dozen old bay crab cakes w/sauce SOLD!
(1) bourbon dark chocolate pecan pies

24/12/2024

Merry Christmas Wildflowers .. enjoy great food & loved ones! I am thankful for all of you

22/12/2024

A pretty little cheese platter for the holidays it’s gonna be mine this year! Gotta splurge once in awhile

20/12/2024

18/12/2024

Good cookies make me happy… bad cookies make others sad

13/12/2024

This looks amazing!!!

Pavlova Christmas Tree with Strawberries and Passionfruit😍🥰😍

12/12/2024

WILDFLOWER POP-UPS BEGIN:
1 Quiche Lorraine available $29
SOLD!!!!

17/11/2024

Wildflowers Kitchen offerings for Thursday, Nov 21st
SOUP: Wild Mushroom Bisque$15/qt

SALAD: Arugula chopped Apple & Chicken Salad $44
(Feeds 4) creamy apple dressing

COMFORT OFFERING: Homemade Spaghetti & Meatballs w/salad & garlic bread $46 (feeds 4)
*can be ordered gluten free

SANDWICH: Beef Tenderloin w/Onion “jam” and creamy Provolone Sauce (ready for oven) $17 each
Accompanied w/roasted potato salad

DESSERT: NY Vanilla cheesecake w/sour cherry topping (homemade) $13/slice

10/11/2024

Chef dinner tonight, roasted beef tenderloin over brown butter cauliflower purée with roasted Brussel sprout hash & tiny potatoes. Topped with wild mushroom

27/10/2024

Hi Wildflower kitchen followers! Here are the offerings for Thursday Oct 31st
SOUP: Italian sausage & white bean soup with tons of veggies $14/qt
SALAD: Updated chef salad (see pic) $44 (feeds 4)

ENTREE #1: Pork Tenderloin with apples, cabbage & onions over creamy polenta $44 (feeds 4)
*accompanied with salad

ENTREE #2: Harissa chicken meatballs with rice & cucumber salad $44. (Feeds 4)

SWEET ENDING: Apple & pear bread pudding with cinnamon crème anglaise $10

21/10/2024

This is a fantastic movie!

Jon Favreau; the writer, director, and star of "Chef" (2014), wrote the film's script in about two weeks. He had long wanted to make a film about food and chefs, and felt that the subject was suited to a small-scale independent film rather than a big-budget production. He cited "Jiro Dreams of Sushi" (2011), "Eat Drink Man Woman" (1994), and "Big Night" (1996) as inspirations for creating a food-centric film.

The script was semi-autobiographical, incorporating parts of Favreau's life into the main character, such as being a father while having a busy career and coming from a "broken home." Favreau also drew a comparison between his career as a director and Carl's career as a chef; he stepped down from directing major studio films to go "back to basics," and create "Chef" on a smaller budget, much like Carl's resignation from a popular restaurant to work in a food truck.

Favreau did his own cooking in the film by training with food truck chef Roy Choi. Choi sent Favreau to a week of intensive French culinary schooling, where Favreau sharpened his knife skills and learned how to make sauces. "I brought him into the kitchen, and he just kind of fit in," Choi recalls. "I threw him a couple of tests, like a case of chives, or a case of onions, or peel two cases of avocados. Just to see where his mind and his situation and his abilities were and how interested he was in these things. He just attacked them. He really became a part of it."

Choi only agreed to train Favreau to cook, if Favreau promised to be absolutely authentic in his portrayal of a professional chef, from the way that his character Carl folds the towels at the beginning of the film, to the way in which he cleans his station. Choi also put Favreau to work in several of his kitchens doing repetitive, menial tasks, such as picking parsley. This training was designed to keep Favreau focused on the smallest of details, and to serve as a method acting exercise, in order to understand the mindset of a professional chef, who must be persistently detail-focused in a pressurized environment, which requires repetitive tasks.

Eventually (five years after this films release) Favreau and Choi teamed up again on the Netflix cooking/documentary show "The Chefs Show."

"It was nice to work on a little movie like this again, where I have so many responsibilities between writing and directing and acting, and you live and die by your own talents. I missed the feeling of doing something small and personal, where I wouldn't have to explain my vision to anyone but the people I was collaborating with." (Wikipedia/IMDb)

Happy Birthday, Jon Favreau!

18/10/2024

Yummmmmm!

Cranberry Pistachio Shortbread Cookies with White Chocolate
Recipe in First Coʍmеոτ 👇
Enjoy ❤️👇👇👇

18/10/2024

Beautiful!

18/10/2024

So true! I could tell at the brief time I had at culinary institute in Cali those who had been in the trenches and those who were being “trained” to go out into the trenches. Best training is boots on the ground in brutal territory

"You can always tell when a person has worked in a restaurant. There's an empathy that can only be cultivated by those who've stood between a hungry mouth and a $28 pork chop, a special understanding of the way a bunch of motley misfits can be a family. Service industry work develops the "soft skills" recruiters talk about on LinkedIn — discipline, promptness, the ability to absorb criticism, and most important, how to read people like a book. The work is thankless and fun and messy, and the world would be a kinder place if more people tried it. With all due respect to my former professors, I've long believed I gained more knowledge in kitchens, bars, and dining rooms than any college could even hold."
- Anthony Bourdain

30/09/2024

Wildflowers Kitchen POP-UPS for Thursday (limited amounts)
*2 Guinness braised bone-in short ribs with mashed potatoes &,baby veggies $45 (feeds 2) SOLD!
*3 Fall salads (lettuces with apples, celery root, candied walnuts, goat cheese & chicken) $44. (Feeds 4)
*2 Rigatoni with grilled chicken & veggies in a creamy roasted garlic sauce$44 (feeds 4) accompanied with side salad SOLD!
*2 slices incredible chocolate cake $9 each SOLD!

07/09/2024

A simple chef dinner tonight in Union Pier … roasted organic chicken breast with veggies. A prelude to fall

01/09/2024

Grilled summer veggies for a party