Category Archives: Bread & Butter

Stagiaire Supper Four is Hot & Hot: Tickets Now Live for Our Next Genuine Family Meal

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Brad’s kitchen putting out our second dinner late last year featuring line cook Milton Vega.

It’s that time again! Executive chef Bradley Herron is opening his home to all of us for a genuine family meal.

As you may know, after hosting Marcus Samuelsson at MGFD for his Miami memoir release party in July 2012, Bradley came up with a great idea inspired by a dinner Samuelsson writes about, hosted at his own home to raise money to send one of his line cooks away to stage for a few days with a great chef from his past, from whom he, as a young cook, learned a great deal. Thanks to Michael’s amazing relationships, we are able to do the same, and Bradley cooked up an offer to make it happen. Get 30 people to each spend $50 on a family style dinner in his own home, cooked by a Stagiaire hopeful with lots of help and donations from the genuine family to put it on.

After a successful first three dinners, and cooks sent to Greenhouse Tavern (Steve Martin,) SBRAGA (Milton Vega,) and Barbuto (Ray Melendi,) it is line cook Juan Mayo’s turn! And he’s going to stage with one of our all time favorite people: Chris Hastings of Hot & Hot Fish Club! Juan is Birmingham-bound in June 19-23. Help us make it possible.

Stagiaire Supper_logoWhen: Sunday, April 28, 5:30-8:00 p.m.
Where: Hosted by Executive Chef Bradley Herron at his home
411 Northeast 52nd Terrace (Morningside) Miami, FL
What: Please join us for meal cooked by one of our own so they can travel to stage at a great chef’s restaurant.
$50 includes:
Welcome Cocktail + Snacks
3 courses including dessert, served family-style
Wine
RSVP: Please say yes to Bradley with cash if you see him or conveniently use your credit card through Brown Paper Tickets here
Why: Your contribution will go to send Juan Mayo for a stage with Hot & Hot Fish Club chef/owner in Birmingham, Alabama!

A Winter Beer List Update from HQ, including Three New American Craft Brews

Servers sampled the bottles after pre-shift today.

We like to drink seasonally and so should you, so a few changes are hitting the @MGFD_MIA beer list today reflecting what some of our favorite brewers are putting out there right now. To keep it simple, we are ricocheting some info that arrived in our inbox care of Beverage Director Ryan Goodspeed here for your beer edification, and have also elaborated with some fun facts and suggestions of what to eat with the new brews from our menus at home base. For up-to-the-minute beer list changes that may not always be posted on the blog, please follow @MGHomeBrew, the Twitter handle of our American Ale that will transmit them exclusively moving forward! Cheers to the Miami winter #oohlala.

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Uncorked: What to Drink with Hedy’s New Desserts

Eric Larkee is the Wine Director at The Genuine Hospitality Group. He pens the Uncorked column here from time to time, we wish more often than occurs. But hey, he’s busy doing the job we all wish we had, drinking and buying wine creatively and thoughtfully for our restaurants, always with a hearty portion of special projects work on the side (echem, Design Miami/ pop cafe, anyone?) When you can’t find his wine wisdom flowing here, follow him on Twitter @ericlarkee.

Last Friday a dreadful 11:30 am meeting was scheduled.  It was time to sit down with Hedy and figure out the best pairings for her four new desserts on the menu.  Like our savory menu, desserts change all the time, but when this many go on at once it’s signaling something greater, like a change of seasons.  See today’s weather if you need proof.  We are creatures of change more than habit, so this transition is fun for us.  So, back to that meeting…

The richness of vanilla bread pudding is balanced with a sweet tart topping of caramelized apples.

First up was the Daily Bread Pudding, which was vanilla. Since the flavors will change each day, we are approaching this thinking more about the sweetness level, texture and density of the dessert. I had assembled a menagerie of our Ports, Sherries, sticky wines and grappas for this. The moment I tasted the fluffy pudding I realized I had forgotten the Moscato d’Asti. La Spinetta’s Bricco Quaglia is my favorite in the category, the aromatics are intense, the bubbles are wonderful and the crisp apple acidity was perfect with the dish, far from any cloying sweetness you may associate with this wine.  I wanted to pick a second option on this but then again, not really, drink the Moscato.

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