It's our annual retreat with my Vistage Executive Group but this year we decided to stay local and not a weekend or overnight er trip due to the economic strain on everyone and their businesses. We went to Decor Center in Diamond Bar where Simple Gourmet took care of us with a super fun "Iron Chef" event. We started the morning off with a professional speaker on "Change". He was only mediocre compared to some of the other fantastic speakers we've had in the past. We were looking forward to the evening portion of our retreat. This is a fun event since our spouses and significant others join us to see what this group is all about too since it's a pretty big part of most of our lives.
A few appetizers and cocktails before the competition and teams are divided up. I'm pretty sure Ryan and I are being split up so we all get to know others in the group and no spousal disagreements in the kitchen! haha.
Some pictures of our finished dishes. We had a wonderful salad with a yummy dressing, rice dish with bbq'd corn and other veggies mixed in. The main dish was a prawn dish pineapples and a Jamaican jerk salsa sauce. So good! I'm sure there's fancier culinary words used to describe all this but I think I had too much wine to remember it all.
The other half of our dishes. We made home made tortilla chips and a bean dip that was a mistake but excellent! Oh and we were called "Team Caliente!" Ahh, ya, yay!
The enemies presentation. Same type of dishes, just done up a little differently. Oh, I forgot there was a free range chicken dish also. Our judges were chicken and we ended up in a tie. Boo! All in all it was sooooo much fun! I would highly recommend this for any team event for sure!
Tracy & I had to get this picture in with Jacob since he's our youngest member of Vistage and could possible be on the bachelor one day so we thought we'd get in a picture with him before he becomes too famous to stand next to us! j/k! He's a total sweetheart! Thanks Tracy for organizing our entire event too! You did an awesome job!
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