Would you ever think brown sugar, butter, sliced bananas would make a memory forever like  a wedding or prom and even remembered like a  birth of a child???…crazy huh!!!

Sometimes I think  us Chefs forget the culinary power that we posses, or how we can install or  make an imprint onto someones memory/ life  forever, simple by hugging their taste buds.

Let me catch you all up to speed……about  two months ago I had a wonderful young girl and her awesome Mom sit at the kitchen counter one night, I over heard that this girl was celebrating her 16Th birthday!! I over heard she loved Bananas Fosters for dessert..So I had one of my guys run down to the Hotel next door to go get some bananas…( if I ran…I would be still running…lol)

So there I was bananas in hand ready to go!!!!……….I was so excited to make her night and she told me she couldn’tstay, she had to hurry home and  go and see some old BOYfriend………all I could in vision was my little baby girl Madison telling her daddy that she doesn’t need help on the slide anymore……or that day when the training wheels come off and she peddles away from me……I know it was just bananas but hell…I was excited!!!-*

So last night Sarah was BACK!!! I was given a heads up a couple days earlier that she was coming so ( I was ready to go  bananas…get it????? that was really bad…I know) But I waited till the dessert course to go out and talk to her.           Chef Danny earlier that day ran to the store and got a Balloon the size of the Good Year Blimp that said Happy Birthday on it. I walked over and wished Sarah Happy Birthday and told her I was there to make her Bananas Fosters. She had a smile ear to ear, you would of thought Publishing Clearing House just rang her door bell.

I love the fact that she will remember for the rest of her life that she was at the Blue Canyon for her 16th birthday with her Mom and I made her Bananas Fosters………now that rocks the mic!!

I made her the Bananas Foster,,had to do it twice…haven’t made that one since Culinary school…. the first one was ok, but the second one was spot on!!

Oh ya, we made a deal….every year on her birthday… we have a date  here at the Blue Canyon. Sarah, Mom and me at the kitchen counter with some Banana’s Fosters and  no BOYS allowed I told Sarah they can eat in the car.

Thanks Sarah for keep giving me reasons why I put on my Chef jacket everyday!!!!

 

Chef Brandt…

 

 

*** If you live in the River , You should make friends with the crocodile.”************

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