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Indian Dinner February 18, 2009 was the first of hopefully many Ethnic Dinners served at Friends at the Cove. Under the direction of Dr, Ravinder Malik, Val, Katie and a few helpers prepared a traditional Northern Indian Feast. The meal was served buffet style to a full house, so everyone could taste all the dishes. A good time was had by all. Based on the response - there will be more Ethnic Dinners! Watch for our e-newsletter for the next event. If you do not receive our newsletter - please email us at katie@friendsfoodwithaflair.com and we will add you to our list.
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Iron Chef Competition On Saturday, August 9, 2008 Val and I beat the Executive Chef of the Chiquola Club Downtown in the first ever, Iron Chef Competition sponsored by Anderson County, held at the Farmers market. We were both given $40 and 1 ½ hours to shop for, and prepare two dishes. We were judged on taste, presentation, creativity, use of market ingredients and staying on budget. We were allowed to bring oils and herbs. Everything else had to be purchased at the market. With our time and money we prepared an Organic Rack of lamb with peach and pepper sauce, served with Japanese green bean knots, and fresh garden veggies stuffed with sausage. The recipes are posted here on the WEB site. Please use them as a guide, and mold them to best fit your tastes. The variety and quality of the products available at the Farmers Market would blow your mind! I would like to challenge each of you to a little Iron Chef. Go to the market and come up with your own meal. I promise you, the freshest Anderson has to offer, a lot of fun, and mouthwatering results. Good luck and Happy Cooking!!!
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Friends to Open Restaurant
at Stone Creek Cove Katie Tillman and Valerie Lowe thought they were finished with the restaurant business when they closed Friends Food With A Flair in downtown Anderson. But the folks at Stone Creek Cove made the pair an offer they couldn’t refuse. Ms. Lowe laughed into the phone when a member of Stone Creek’s homeowner’s association asked if they would be interested in opening a restaurant at the golf club. But it only took one visit to the 1970s clubhouse before the women were hooked. They plan to open Friends at the Cove as a banquet facility in December and will add a restaurant component after Jan. 1. “Sometimes the universe just plops something in your lap and you say ‘Oh my God, what are we going to do with this?’ ” Ms. Lowe said, sitting in Friends’ future banquet space. Most people know Stone Creek Cove from its heyday during the 1980s. When the clubhouse’s longtime manager left, the homeowners association hired one person after another, but it wasn’t the same, so the association started leasing the building out for special events, said Wendy Mussen, the current homeowners association president. Ms. Tillman and Ms. Lowe admittedly looked at the property out of curiosity more than business interest. They arrived by boat, stepping off Hartwell Lake and onto a rolling green lawn lined by trees. By the end of their tour, Ms. Tillman and Ms. Lowe were smitten with the building and the homeowners who were with them. The clubhouse was designed with the best of 1970s style. Get past the currently turquoise carpet and yellow walls, and it’s easy to see why this building was a happening social site. Light fills the banquet room from sliding glass doors that make up one entire wall. Tables are arranged diagonally around a small parquet dance floor. Behind it, a stone fireplace dominates the wall and overlooks the pit where DJs would play music. When homeowners association surveyed residents this year about their vision for the community, the majority of respondents wanted and agreed that they would support a restaurant in the clubhouse, said Judy Stevanovich, a homeowner’s association board member. Residents are doing a majority of renovations in order to get Friends there. The outside deck is being repainted, the front doors are wet with red paint, and the carpet is coming up soon. “We’ve had various people in the restaurant out there,” Mrs. Stevanovich said. “We just wanted to ensure that the next people that came into the restaurant were people with experience.” The dining room for the restaurant/bar will seat about 60 people. An adjacent loft has room for about 15 more and will likely be used for private parties. The banquet space can easily accommodate 250 people, using the dining room, deck and lawn. The small kitchen inside can serve the restaurant, but the friends will use the mobile kitchen they bought for their catering business to help serve the banquet space. A new menu is in the works, and the women are surveying the residents and regular customers about what they want to eat. “It’ll be different than Friends downtown, but we’ll have some of the old favorites,” Ms. Lowe said. Friends at the Cove will also employ some familiar faces. The women have already talked to former employees and their catering workers to fill positions at the new location. Friends at the Cove gives Ms. Tillman the best of all worlds. The restaurant will open Thursday through Saturday so she gets to interact with customers, but on a smaller scale than the grueling five-day-a-week schedule they had downtown. For Stone Creek Cover residents, the Friends will provide a sense of community and a place to gather, Mrs. Stevanovich said. “We think it’s going to be just wonderful for the community and the entire area,” she said.
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Carolina Farm Stewardship
Fundraising Dinner
The 6 course meal was prepared by 7 outstanding upstate chefs using ingredients from 19 local farms and wineries. The purpose of the dinner was to promote sustainable agriculture. Val and I prepared on dish using sweet potatoes, apples and braised pork bellies. Other chefs were, Rodney Freidank of Restaurant O in Greenville, us, John and Amy Malik of 33 Liberty in Greenville, Patsy Sims of Walhalla Liberty Lodge and Shane White of Keowee Key Country Club.
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Helping Hands Bags For more information about the orphanage and ways that
you can get involved, please visit www.rescuechildren.org. The idea behind these bags is to help people, help the planet and a good cause at the same time. Because 100% of the price of the bag goes to the medical fund, we also accept donations of jeans as well. If you have old jeans to donate, please drop them off at the Anderson County Farmer's Market or call 864 303-5393 or mail them to Helping Hands Bags - 1215 Prater Lane - Anderson SC 29689. |
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Changes to Friends Food
With a Flair
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The Haiti Project |
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