Noche Argentina -Catering a tennis tournament

[Don Marco]

Howdy folks...

On friday a teammate and i made a catering at a tennis tournament for our beef sponsor. It was a 550 miles roadtrip for me and we had lots of hurdles and some major PITA but after all it was still a great event.

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Heres the Que-mobile after a 250 miles drive in the summer...

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[Don Marco]

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Since i arrived quite early i had time to enjoy some tennis

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[Don Marco]

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After watching the women play for a while i almost decided to quit grilling and apply for a job as a ball boy.

Well, time to do some work, and thats where the troubles began.

Heres my buddy "Camillo" who is supposed to be my grilling "wingman" and who organized a lot since he was a local over there.

Note his left hand...

A knife slipped out of his hand and in a reflex he tried to catch it.

FAIL !

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He cut a tendon of a finger and right on the bone and had to have immediate surgery. He is out of hospital already, but has a lot of pain and a cast on his left arm for 4 - 6 weeks. Take care using knifes !

So, now i was on my own with a couple of helpers to assemble the plates ,serve the food and collect the cash to arrive later.

[Don Marco]

Heres more than 200 portions of orange-garlic butter and chipotle butter

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Argentinian Beef Strip Loin, smoked a day ahead and sliced thin for sandwiches

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Heres the booth.

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[Don Marco]

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I had to wait for more than 2 hours to bring the smoker in because the referee said the tennis players might get confused when we pull the smoker on the main road along the courts. Nerds !
Off course that delayed the timing bigtime.

Then the restaurant at the location went nuts.
I had a bad feeling about them since i arrived and they clearly showed they didnt like us to cater that evening since that meant they wouldnt have any business at all.
Since it was all arranged with the organizer of the event we were told we could use the kitchen and cooling but they sabotaged all they could until i told them to get stuffed and pulled out of there. A**holes...
There we were without a kitchen and proper cooling, but our sponsor managed to call in one of their cooling trucks just in time.

Heres the Menu

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250 grams Argentinian Strip Steak or smoked striploin roast with our butters, chimichurri, corn and salad

280 grams of irish angus beef cheeseburger

Smoked roastbeef sandwich

Smoked Chorizo Sandwich with chimichurri

Corn on the cob with butter

All the meat was prime argentinian beef except for the fantastic irish burgers and chorizos.

Heres the first load of strip loin in the smoker and some chorizos for a test run. The chorizos were smoked for about 45 minutes and the finished on the grill

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[Don Marco]

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Heres a Choripan Sandwich, chorizo with chimichurri and bread.

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Roastbeef Sandwiches

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[Don Marco]

Yummie !

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Some of the guests actually wanted me to put their slices of the striploin on the grill for a couple of minutes because they liked it well done.
I told em the cow was dead already but they didnt care.

That was really painful.

[Don Marco]

Heres the stripsteaks

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[Don Marco]

Cooked about 100 pounds of those irish burgers on the outlaw.
You wont believe the smell of that grill now.

If only i could bottle that ;-)


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[Don Marco]

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[Don Marco]

Heres my wonderful support team. Now thats the way i like it. :twisted: :D

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Thats it, i was too busy to take more or better pics.

After all the troubles it was still a great event, we had lots of fun and the guests loved it.

Cheers,

DM

[Kyle]

Wow!! Great job! Thanks for the pictures, I enjoyed looking at them, very interesting.

[gatorpit]

I am with Kyle. Cool seeing your pics from across the great big pond. :)

[david brace]

...I'm still looking at the tennis girls...you mean there's more pictures? :D

What did you do to make the orange-garlic butter? And on what was it used?

DB

[Don Marco]

...I'm still looking at the tennis girls...you mean there's more pictures? :D

Yep, but youll have to give me your credit card details to see them :twisted:



What did you do to make the orange-garlic butter? And on what was it used?



That butter rocks on bread, beef, chicken and vegetables.

Its quite simple, butter, grated orange rind, mashed garlic, salt, pepper and dash of grand marnier.

DM

[Teddy N Texas]

DM, those are a bunch of great pictures of food and people. I don't know how you do it, but you just keep on keeping on. Great job.

[wood_is_good]

You know it's not bad enough how awesome your food always looks, now ya gotta start having babes................we don't stand a chance :cry:


Seriously, great job as always :drool:

[gsmith]

the food pics look great but you should tell someone to use a spell checker cause some of the words were misspelled on the menu and also the tennis announcement

[Papa Tom]

Ok DM I been love with your cooking for a while but now I think I'm developing a weakness for your support team.....

[honu41]

DM... Thanks for sharing the pics of your very successful catering event. Food looks great and hands down you have a pretty attractive "support team" w/o your wingman.

I have done catering events where guests of Spanish descent or from Spanish influenced countries refuse to eat beef with pink in it. I normally keep a grill "hot" for times like that.

Thanks again for sharin'.