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Taste Donna’s Soft Scrambled Farm Eggs & More on Slow Food Day

Posted on January 23, 2012 | Leave a comment

Our longtime intern, graphic designer Junior Narvaez, helped us with this ad running in the Caymanian Compass today!

Saturday, February 4, Grand Cayman’s first Slow Food Day, is fast-approaching and menus are set!  For the complimentary tasting at The Market at The Grounds from 9-11:00 a.m., all of our participating local chefs have done yeoman’s work connecting with their farmers and conceiving the local-ingredient-inspired dishes they will present, as follows:

Chef Thomas Tennant (Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink) + Farmer Donna Connolly: Donna’s soft scrambled farm eggs on garlic toast with grilled green onions & piave vecchio

Chef Keith Griffin (Private Chef) + Farmer Joel Walton + Rancher Paul Bodden: Island Spiced Pork with Scotch Bonnet ‘mustard’, fruity grilled plantation house vegetable salsa & sweet potato

Chef Sara Mair (Ortanique) + Hamlin Stephenson: Caymanian Sweet Potato Gnocchi with a Ragout of Pumpkin, Calalloo and Tomatoes Topped with House Made Goat Cheese Ricotta

Chef Nevin Patel (The Brasserie) + Patrick Panton: Patrick’s Farm All Natural Jerk Chicken with Heirloom Tomato, Chinese Long Beans and Local Eggplant Panzanella

Chef Paul Carroll (Hemingway’s) + Errol Watler: Pumpkin Soup with toasted coconut and Marinated Pepper and Tomato bruschetta with homemade cheese

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Genuine Bloomfield in Pictures

Posted on January 16, 2012 | 1 Comment

Spotted pigs come in sandal form, too!

On Saturday night we welcomed April Bloomfield and her chef Peter Cho from The Breslin into our kitchen for Genuine Bloomfield, our Cayman Cookout dinner and main event on the rock this past week, hosted by Camana Bay.  It was a festive evening with special guests including Food & Wine Editor in Chief Dana Cowin, Anthony Bourdain, Sandra Ripert, chef Laurent Gras, and the Premier of Cayman Islands, Honorary McKeeva Bush, flanked by ministers and cabinet members, security in tow.  Guests enjoyed a menu of hors d’oeuvres, four delicious courses with wines from Austrian vintner Schloss Gobelsburg, and Hedy’s salted caramel peanut candies for a sweet finish.

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[UPDATED] Grand Cayman’s Fifth Farm-to-Table Dinner: Genuine BBQ Edition

Posted on August 16, 2011 | 1 Comment

Miked Up: On a gorgeous island day in June, Emma Gladstone of Switched On Productions readied Chef to shoot a scene for our Genuine Cayman TV pilot.

Update: Photos from the BBQ extravaganza are now up on our Flickr in this set. Enjoy drooling!

In our ongoing effort to showcase local farmers and ingredients, our Grand Cayman restaurant will host its fifth monthly Farm-to-Table event on Saturday, August 27 at 6:00 p.m. Guests attending will get a first look at Genuine Cayman, Michael’s new series in development for Caymanian television exploring the origin of seasonal, local ingredients sourced daily for the restaurant. The Farm-to-Table menu, “Genuine BBQ Edition” by our island chef Thomas Tennant, will include a mouth-watering line up of items like brisket, grilled pork belly, seagrape-smoked pork shoulder, Caybrew can chicken, breadfruit salad, sweet potato salad, wood oven roasted corn and okra, and more. The restaurant’s full a la carte menu will not be available due to the evening’s festivities, but the bar will remain open to walk-in customers with its snack menu available. Continue reading →

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