Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Christmas Dinner in Grand Jct, You Follow Along




Christmas Dinner in Grand Jct, You Follow Along


 



I thought it would be cool to kind of take you through the Christmas Day
with my family. I love to cook and love to cook special occasions.
Spend a lot of time thinking about things I can do to make it special or
make it different. So come with me if you care, through the day from
prep to dinner's end.



First thing we do is decorate the table. Since the children have been
little they have been allowed to help with the table set. First I hope
it will build a tradition for them that they will create their own
Christmas dinner, even when it is just them and whatever family they
create. So we start by pulling the table leaf and installing them. Then
my wife drapes the table with the new linens.







Then the chargers and depression glass dishes are removed from the 19th
century bowed glass hutch. And the table set is started.











Even though it is just us, we like to set the table for the holiday
meal. And so my wife and daughter have set a very nice table this year.







The selected wines are placed in the proper area for service. And this
year we have some interesting selections. Zardetto Prosecco is our
sparkling. I have found this to be a fantastic sparkling wine and for
the money I think it is absolutely the best. This will be offered along
with a very nice Donati 2003 Chardonnay hailing from San Benito County,
California. The red choice will be a deep Penfolds BIN 389 Cabernet
Shiraz. Hailing from Australia this bold red can take on the smoke I
plan on adding to the Pork Prime Rib.







And so the table is set for the festive occasion. Of course the Zardetto
is blocking the center piece for the year. A table looks so much more
festive with a nice center piece. And so it time to begin preparing the
meal.



First we will prepare the pork prime rib. I had taken the liberty of
ordering the rack whole and cutting it in half since their is only four
of us this year. Vacuum packing one the night before for the freezer and
seasoning one with Salt, Pepper and dry garlic in olive oil and vacuum
packing it for the reefer overnight to let the magic begin!



Now before we get into the meat prep and such, lets talk about the
atmosphere of the house. First we need the table decorated. We also need
music. My son got me a nice Jazz CD for Christmas that will be the
background. Lets face it we have heard a lot Christmas carols all month
long. So a little more normal music is a nice change. The CD mixer will
add in other Jazz from other CDs as well.







And you might as well see my brothers gift to Terry and I this year. A
nightlight that fits the season.







He always finds something interesting, last year it was a talking
Napoleon Dynamite doll.



The meat needs a little prep. This piece came in from my Sysco rep and
is very nice. But I have to prep it a little more as some of the
side chain is still hooked to it.







So we will clean it up and french it off prior to starting the roasting.
The yellow you see it the olive oil it marinated in overnight.







Here it is frenched, ready for the cooking seasoning step and then into
the fire!







So since I am trying to cook the dinner naked (minimal spicing) I am
using Salt, Pepper, Garlic and olive oil. But my brain intercedes when I
notice a little Prosecco in the bottle from Christmas Eve. So a lemon
and orange zest, Prosecco reduction will be nice to the pork!







After the reduction is ready and brushed onto the pork it is time to pan
the pork for its trip to the

Char-Broil grill.












Now we don't want to be outdoors all day watching this thing so we will
use a nice remote thermometer I received several years ago. But to do it
correctly we must bring the outside of the pork up to 165 F for 15
seconds, then we can pierce the meat with a probe and still meat the
safety standard to pull at medium. Piercing the roast prior to bring the
outside up to temp and the requirement goes to 165 to pull the meat.
Which makes a very tough pork roast.







Once the outside has reached the temp, I add in the remote temp probe so
I can monitor the roast from the comfort of the house and wine! Those of
you who read regularly will remember that in the modification of the

Char-Broil grill
I add a hole to allow a remote temp probe to pass
through the side and into the cooking chamber. We use that here to
achieve our objective!











And so now from the comfort of the house, I can monitor the progress of
the roast. This picture of the monitor was taken a little later in the
day. Like about 2 hours later. Pay no attention to the "done"
temperature at the top. You have to learn to ignore the old fashioned
rules for pork roasts. The new rules allow for a medium pull. I will
pull at 148 F for the final product. So with the woodstove going and the
gas fireplace fired up I return to the house to finish the dinner.











Very early on I start to proof out the rolls and get them ready for the
oven. Here I am proofing out the yeast raised ranch rolls.







I will bake the rolls off and set them aside for service. They will be
added to the oven just prior to bring them back up to temp. But I need
the oven space so they will cook first and hang around.







So today will be the day I break out my new

Calphalon Stainless Steel Tapa pans
to do the au gratin taters.







These little six inch pans will hold my version of the au gratin taters
this year. I was picking these up on eBay when they first came out. I
hauled off six of them for about $9 less than retail per set of two. I
think they are really cool. They are very heavy so they can handle stove
top and oven.



My twist on Au Gratin taters have two tricks to it. First the cheese is
true parmesan regiano. Many home cooks wonder why they never achieve
the results they taste in a restaurant or at a catering. It is because
many get to looking at pricing of certain items and cheap out on the
ingredient. If the ingredient is part of the main flavor profile you can
not skip or substitute it!







This is the real stuff! To prep the taters I will call on the trusty
kitchen appliance my

Cuisinart Prep 11 Plus
with the 6 mm slicing blade. As you push in
the kitchen learn how to use these processors and you will save a lot of
time.







In no time at all you have the taters slice and ready for panning.







And then into the pan with the newest twist I am using for the taters.
This Au Gratin dish will feature an interesting background, I am using
Goats Milk to prepare the dish. I love the depth the goats milk adds to
the tater dish.







Here again I am keeping the taters as naked as possible. Using salt,
pepper, oil and letting the Goats milk and cheese do their magic. I can
not resist making the salt special, from my

Chef Stefan
salts of the world collection I will use the Australian
pink salt for just a little more mineral background. I am getting close
to blowing the goal of naked food!







Next up the root vegetables. I have decided on carrots with zucchini in
a brown sugar reduction and a nice sweet beet hash done with batons.



If you handle you garden correctly you should still have root vegetables
out in the thing. Beets, parsnips are among the roots that sweeten up
with freezing. And you must take advantage of this if you never have
before. So go kick up up some frozen beets and lets make some cool
sides.







Again I will press the

Cuisinart Prep 11 Plus
into service, this time with the 6 X 6 mm
julienne disk. This once again saves a lot of time.



In the mean time lots of joy and merriment is going on, including the
monitoring of Chef2chef for last minute questions from anyone. And
reading it to catch up on other blogs and such.







Next up our carrot and zucchini are prepped and ovened to get everything
underway for the final dinner. The carrots are from the garden which I
did a

blog about
a few months back when gleaning the carrot patch. So the
sides are now prepped and cooking. The last thing is to do the dessert.







Now we are using a char grill to smoke roast, and an oven to roast, and
we have to also do a Crème Brule for dessert. Another oven is required.
When I replaced my microwave a few years back I purchased a

GE Profile Convection/Nuker combo
offering me the speed of microwave
and an additional convection oven in one foot print. I have put this
thing through its paces and love it.



So we start the prep in the double boiler, Bain marie or whatever you
want to call it. Truth is many home cooks don't use it. So find out who
is watering the cats with it and get it cleaned and put back with the
cookware. It is a very useful piece of cooking apparatus.







There are a million Brule recipes out there. Pick one and cook it. I am
doing an infused Brule featuring Frangelica as the background. Remember
to water bath these for the finish.







Ok time for the push to get it all on the table. So I pull the Au Gratin
taters as they are ready. In there place goes the rolls for a little
heat.







And the temperature monitor says it is time to pull the pork, it needs
to rest about 15 minutes so it is pulled. Then the beets are pulled and
bowled.











Finally the roast is carved and the dinner is served! Wine is flowing
and food is being consumed, what a nice dinner today!







Plating out we have a very full plate. Consisting of Roasted and smoked
prime rib of pork, goats milk au gratin taters, roasted beets, reduced
and roasted carrots with zucchini, Country apple sauce which I did not
show cause I was enjoying wine and took not one picture of the apple
sauce, herbed bread filling which also did not make the picture scene,
fresh rolls, and great wine!











Everyone was having fun! The daughter really liked the Prosecco!







Done for the picture, but you get the idea of the time we had, just the
four of us, because we took the time to all get involved and make it a
special occasion! I leave you with the image that says it all to me









I have to say this was fun, I hoped you enjoyed coming along for the
ride.



Til we speak again, set the table to the nines and even if it is only
two of you, make it fun to see what each of you can add to the event!
You won't regret it!



Chef Bob Ballantyne

The Cowboy and The Rose Catering, LLC

Grand Junction, Colorado, USA

Sunday, December 24, 2006

Christmas Clam Chowder, New England Style



Christmas Clam Chowder, New England Style


 



And so it was that my cell would ring! "Bob, I forgot to order my
Christmas Clam Chowder from you guys." "It is a tradition and I have
invited everyone over, I don't know what I am going to do? Can you help
me?"



A elderly client of ours has ordered my New England Clam Chowder for
years now. I had just figured they were moving onto something else this
year when the order never came in for the stuff. Turns out life as a 78
year old had got her out of sync this year. A fall in November had
broken her hip, she had just had surgery a week ago to remove the pins
from the hip. This all combined to keep other things at the top of her
mind and Chowder was not one of them.



Could I help her? I was reminded of an event last year I

blogged about at Christmas
where a simple yes changed a couples
entire evening. And so it was that I would somehow squeeze in a prep and
finish for an old client to see that her tradition was kept alive!



Christmas Clam Chowder, New England Style!



Having lived in New England for a long time I learned a lot of cool
dishes from the area. This recipe was adapted to offer the Christmas
mosaic in its presentation.



Since I get a lot of e-mails for recipes, here is the recipe upfront,
reduced from food service levels to home serving levels.



Christmas Clam Chowder:



2 Tbsp spoons butter or olive oil

1/4 cup flour

2 bacon strips

4 clove garlic minced

1 onion diced

2 carrots diced

1/2 cup diced green bell pepper

1/2 cup diced red bell pepper

2 celery stalks diced

3 cups diced potato

4 cups clam broth or stock

1 cup buttermilk

1 cup half and half

1 cup heavy cream

1 pound chopped clam meat

salt, white pepper, and parsley for seasoning and finishing.



Ok a word about salt pepper and such, I don't do amounts, season and
taste, season and taste. Just learning to do this will improve your food
so much!



So render down the bacon in the pot you are going to do the chowder in.
At the same time take a small sauté and make a blond roux.







The old six eye friend does it well, but your home range will do a great
job as well. When the roux is completed set it aside for later use.



Next take all the vegetables, save the celery, and place it down in the
bacon fat in the bottom of you stock or chowder pot.







Get the veggies sweating out in olive oil or a little butter. Then stir
them around. Here is a good time to start seasoning your product!








Folks, we are doing this to remove water, and soften the vegetables. So
move this trinity around and get everything coated and softening. In the
mean time grab up the box chardonnay, a sauté and the celery to prepare
the secret that makes the chowder special!








First pour in two cups Chardonnay, reduce by 1/3 and then add in the
celery and one more cup of chardonnay and reduce by half. You may
thicken with a little corn starch and water and then set it aside for
later use.



Small Rant Time





A Chef's rant about the box wine:



You will notice I am using boxed wine here to cook with, you may hear
from "the wine snob" set that you should only cook with wine you would
drink. And many won't drink boxed wine, so what they imply is "don't
cook with boxed wine." The people making a statement like this are
IDIOTS, run away from them and their advice. They would actually have
you believe they would take a 2001 Cakebread Reserve Napa Chard
and scald it in a saute pan? To even make this statement they either
have to be fools, or have "parrot syndrome" and a very poor
understanding of cooking. Parrot syndrome like lemming syndrome, are the
same, I heard so and so say it, so I say it, but don't know why! Hey
heating destroys all that wine is.....! (that is why we store wine in
temp controlled cellars) So use the box stuff, use leftover stuff that
you opened and sat around to long before finishing. It is great to cook
with anytime. And if you get the snob type harping on you, challenge
them, I personally bet them, I hold that I will make six bowls or
dishes, some with the expensive wine you suggest (and provide) cooking
with and some with box wine of the same varietal. There is a thousand
dollars in it for you if you can pick them out correctly. Not one ever
takes me up on it or ever will, cooking destroys what a wine was and
makes it nothing more than a background depth for your dish! So move
forward realizing that box wines are good to cook with and expensive
bottles of wine were made to be drank and enjoyed by people, not ruined
by some lunatic with a sauté pan! And I have noticed it is usually
people who could not afford a 2001 Penfolds Grange that want you
to burn it instead of drinking it! Shear stupidity!



My name is Chef Bob Ballantyne and I use Box Wines!



Ok I feel better now!







Next we add in the clams, I like a pound of clams per gallon of finished
product. I use chopped clam meat no bellies.







Then you need to fold this together with the trinity and bring it back
to temp.








Once you get the clams up to temperature then you fold in the blond roux
you made earlier. Get this mixed into and dispersed well.








Now add the wet products, so the buttermilk, half and half, and the
heavy cream. And stir till up to temperature. I like to bring mine up to
185 degrees F at this point. I don't want to break the milks by allowing
out of control heating.








Last we add in the Chardonnay reduction and the celery. Bring back to
temp and if the roux did not do its job completely you can thicken
however you like, reduction (a favorite but time consuming), Signature
Secrets, Flour and Water, or my personal favorite egg yokes. Take two
egg yokes and stir them, temper them with some of the hot chowder and
add to the main pot. Mix and heat until thickened. Serve this up with
chowder crackers, celery and carrot sticks.

Just wanted to post a pic of a real nice gift of cheese this year, I
received from my boss.







I hope each of you will reflect on how you positively affected someone's
life this holiday season, if you can not come up with a name, lets work
on that in 2007 starting today!



Til we talk again, Have a very merry Christmas!

Chef Bob Ballantyne

The Cowboy and The Rose Catering

Grand Junction, Colorado, USA

Sunday, December 17, 2006

The Grand Junction Soup Kitchen Third Saturday Fun



The Grand Junction Soup Kitchen Third Saturday Fun


 



Well about one year ago I decided that one of the impacts I can have on
the local homeless population was to volunteer down at the

Catholic Outreach Soup Kitchen
. They were getting a lot of stuff
that regular volunteers were either afraid to use or did not know what
dish to create with the items.



After talking with the project manager, whom we had known for years from
donating our left over foods, I was fitted into the third Saturday of
every month. Which incidentally meant Big Dog Chef was also fitted in
for the third Saturday for the months I could not make it! Which he has
graciously done on several occasions that he has

blogged about
. So far it has been a lot of fun. The challenges are
many, the rewards are personal, and the ability to once per month face a
MYSTERY box contest to feed 150 to 250 people is a blast. With the added
dimension of having no trained staff and never knowing how many or what
type of volunteers are going to show up makes the whole thing a real fun
time to manage.



So I arrive about 7 AM normally since I may have anywhere from 2 to 10
volunteers I like to have most of the Mise en place done long before the
others show up. The kitchen manager Steve is always in a 5 AM and has
the place sterile for my start. He is a great guy and one of the reason
I come in so early is we can blast the Jazz loud until the younger crowd
arrives. When they continue to stare lifelessly until we put on some
more "normal" music.



So I find the kitchen looking like this at 7 AM:








To give you a run down, there is a small 3 X 3 flat top with a six eye
and to conventional ovens under. Then the best piece of equipment I have
ever used, a fully automatic tilting Tilt Skillet. This is on my
Christmas wish list for the catering company. Then a single stack gas
convection. Which no one liked until I got there to really start putting
it through it paces. Now most of the other volunteers use it and hotel
pans more then the six eye that they were addicted to less then a year
ago.



And the Mystery ingredient is:



Roasted and fried CHICKEN! The kitchen is supported by a lot of local
restaurants. They save many items that were kept at proper temps but no
longer could be pushed out front to a client. We get it and either
freeze it til we have enough to do something with, or use it immediately
depending on quantities donated.



Going through my brain is the idea that it is cold and that a heavy
stick to the ribs meal will be in order. Chicken and Dumplings will fit
the bill nicely. I tear apart about five of the various cooked and
spiced birds, make a quick base pan up and taste it. Just a little salt,
pepper and sage will be all that is required to balance the various
styles of spicing to something I think everyone will like to eat today.



Volunteer regulars show up. These two attend Fruita Monument High School
and come in almost every time I cook. They are always willing to do
whatever I ask in prep.








While I am sure they don't like tearing down chickens, they are there to
really help feed these people so they dig in and tear them down. In
short time a few more of my volunteer crew starts to arrive and everyone
is tearing down chicken and tossing the bones to my 45 gallon stock pot
and the meat into the Tilt Skillet!








So we continue on, problem, no biscuit mix, answer we always have flour,
so searching the brain I seem to remember about 4 tsp baking powder to
one pound of flour, half tsp salt to same and some type of milk. Plus
the parsley. Problem, no milk. Ok to the donations store room, a one
gallon can of dried butter milk, well that should make it taste good.
But an adjustment will be required to the formula. So drop to 3 tsp
baking powder and add one tsp baking soda to handle the powdered
buttermilk that will go acidic when rewetted. Do up 9 pounds and we are
ready to rock and roll.







A short while after the volunteers arrive we are making the entree and
getting things lined out. No vegetables, save for salad makings, were
donated today. I find five gallon cans of diced dried carrots in the
storeroom. We got tons of this stuff after the Y2K thing fizzled out to
a non event. Hey I think I can make them taste good and I decide to make
them all so I can use the extra to create a Chicken carrot soup for
Monday's feed crew. Lots of water and boiling, into the pot goes the
five cans, stir and kill the heat. Add in 3 pounds of brown sugar and
half a can of dried buttermilk, salt, pepper, stir and then pan into
five 2 inch hotels, place in the oven covered. Meanwhile I guide a new
volunteer through how to place the dumplings onto the chicken.








After I show her with pan one she is on her own while I get the spinach
steaming and panned. We also get tons of canned spinach, most won't use
it when they cook, I use it every time as it is very good nutrition for
these people who don't eat regularly. And the way I make it we go
through two six inch hotel pans every time. Ham bones, onions, garlic,
salt and pepper with a hint of red pepper all combine to people coming
back for more spinach.



Finally the chicken is dumplinged and the stuff is ready for the ovens.







We ended up at 170 people plus crew. Tore through six four inch hotel
pans of the stuff, and two spinach six inch pans as well as four diced
carrot pans. I do apologize I did not take pics at the end as I was
rushing to get my stock done, the bones picked and the soup finished and
cooled for Monday. So I kind of forgot about the camera. Plus we had
Louis Armstrong playing loud teaching the kids to like jazz! We cleaned
up and were all out of there at 2 PM.



I love doing this, it is so rewarding personally to step in, assemble a
volunteer crew, decide on what to do with "the secret ingredient" and
feed all these people a balanced meal. Really if you are professionally
trained, or professionally mentored consider volunteering at a soup
kitchen, your knowledge will be of great benefit to the organization. It
is amazing to the kitchen manager the amount of old dried stuff in tin
cans that I use and they come back for seconds. Consider it, and you
students, you should be down there practicing and using your knowledge
to aid these organizations!



Til we talk again, pick up something extra and drop it by the local soup
kitchen, I can assure you the people needing this service appreciate it
even it they can not say so themselves!



Warm regards to you all

Chef Bob Ballantyne

The Cowboy and The Rose Catering

Grand Junction, Colorado, USA

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Great Home Cooking by Maintaining the Home Range




 Great Home Cooking by Maintaining the Home Range


 



Well a little weather has been coming in on top of us lately here in
Grand Junction, Colorado. So I had to get to the maintenance routines.
It had been a year since I calibrated the oven range and leveled it.
Many many home cooks get poor results because they fail to do some basic
maintenance required every year. Easy to perform, fairly quick and it
will improve the results you get from your cooking appliance.



First a picture of a larger project I did this weekend. I converted our
wood fireplace to gas. We still have the woodstove to pound a couple
cord per month through for heat. But I got tired of the mess and time it
takes to deal with the wood fireplace. Here it is converted.







Now I am going to take you through the range maintenance routines that
will help you get better results from your home cooking appliance.



Some basic tools are required to perform the functions required. This
should be completed once per year. You will need a decent pliers or vise
grips, a calibrated electronic thermometer, a set of screw drivers,

and a decent torpedo level. All of these tools can be acquired for under
$20 (USD) at a hardware store.







The torpedo level is used to check the level of the range. Place it on
your cook top and swing it in both directions, front to back and left to
right. Monitor the level to see how the level is on your range top.








As you can see the top is off level by a little. But here is where many
many make the mistake that causes the lopsided cakes, the uneven temps
in the oven. You MUST and I repeat MUST check the level of your oven
racks,








And you must check them in both directions. The cook top and the oven
are seperate problems. The oven is leveled with the appliance leveling
feet. Then we shim the cooktop to match the ovens level. The appliance
feet are what the whole range should sit on. Many many installers are
just kids hired by the appliance store. They have little to no clue
about how a cooking appliance should be installed. So the roll it in on
the back rollers, crank the front feet down and let it go at that. This
will insure you always have substandard results from you cooking
appliance. You must make the back feet take on the weight of the
appliance as well as the front feet. All the feet are adjustable.








There are four of these on most cooking appliances. Use them and take
the weight off those back delivery rollers. They were not designed for
the weight if you have four feet. (if you only have two front feet then
the rollers were designed to bore the weight) Adjust until level front
to back and left to right are achieved. While adjusting your range take
the level down under the unit with you. Rest it on the frame rail and
start to crank the feet with the vise grips or pliers to move the feet
up and down til you achieve level.













Sorry it is a little blurry, as you should be able to make out this unit
is now level with the bubble centered in the torpedo level. It is level
from front to back and left to right.



Now I stressed earlier that you must and I meant MUST level the oven
first with the level inside on the racks. In this next photo you see
why. This is the level of the cooktop after the oven was leveled.








As you can see the cooktop is now further off level. Many many
installers just through a level on the top and call it good. You can not
tell if your oven is level by placing a level on the cooktop. You must
measure the level on the oven racks. Now that the oven is level we will
fix the cooktop.



There are usually two to three screws on the cooktop at the front of the
appliance. We will place shims under the cooktop (washers) until we hit
level and then tighten the screws back down.







This cooktop took 4 washers on each of the screws to bring it to level.
But the end result is well worth the effort. As you will bake better
nicer and more even with a level oven, and your saute pans won't have
dry spots if you take the time to level the cooktop.








So the oven is level, the cooktop is leveled and we are ready? Wrong, we
must check temperature. The thermocouple in home ranges is, well, cheap.
So it changes with time. If you have purchased a digital meat
thermometer you have a calibrated electronic thermocouple. This will
allow you to set your oven up correctly for a more superior result on
the final product.



So set you oven to 350 F and place you thermometer probe on the rack in
the most common baking level you use.








Then start to monitor your remote temperature guage.







As you can see in less than one year the oven has changed what 350 F is
really. It would top out at 420 F for a 350 setting. This is
unacceptable. So we are going to adjust the gauge.








On the back of most home ranges temperature set knob are a couple of
screws that allow you to adjust to make the oven hotter or cooler if
required. We need to cool this oven down a little. So I adjust the back
down about 60 degrees. Most home units have a plus 20 F and minus 25 F
thermocouple installed. This means the temp will over shoot about 20 F
and drop down 25 under the set point before turning heat back to the
oven. Here we are after the adjustment and the oven is now performing a
lot closer to real temperatures. I know why my banana breads had been
blowing up the last few times I cooked them. They were subjected to a
very high heat compared to where they should have been cooked.



I hope you find this helpful, just spending a little time once per year
will allow you to get much better results from you home cooking
appliance.











Til we talk again, mull some wine and hang out by your fireplace! It is
time well spent!



Chef Bob Ballantyne

The Cowboy and The Rose Catering

Grand Junction, Colorado, USA

Monday, December 4, 2006

Holiday Entertainment --- Trans Siberian Orchestra




Holiday Entertainment --- Trans Siberian Orchestra


 



The family did a little traveling over the Thanksgiving week. We
wandered back to New Hampshire and stayed with my in-laws for the week.
Quite a time putting out a meal in a home kitchen you are not used to
being in, but that is another blog!



This blog is about traveling home, we flew in and out of Manchester
Airport. Now when I left New Hampshire the airport in Manchester was
still very small. I used to park in the gravel lot and walk into the
terminal and had to have almost 10 minutes prior to boarding to get on
the flight!



Little different now!



Anyway on the way home my wife decided we would stay in Manchester and
do something. We have all been fans of the
Trans Siberian
Orchestra
for several years now. So she got us tickets to their

2006 tour stop
in Manchester NH. And what a great time is to be had
at this show!








The whole show is just put together real well, sound and lighting are
fantastic. And the music they have arranged is just really fun!








The show tells a story of Christmas in the first half. The show goes
through some real kicked up Christmas songs. Snow machines, lasers, etc.








The three musicians that started the group are pretty involved in the
stage antics through the entire show. They use a 10 piece string
orchestra in reinforcement arrangements and hire local musicians to fill
those parts. The vocals are handle by a battery of singers that can belt
out the music! Wonderful show, wonderful time, and my wife says the guys
that put the group together are easy on the eyes!








Don't know about that part, but there is definitely some great arm candy
in the chicks on vocals! And of course the show is great. So if you are
looking to get away and see a show. I would say look up the

Tour Date
near you and spend the money for this one. The kids loved
it, we loved it and so will you.



Til we party again! Take in a live show & have a great time!

Chef Bob Ballantyne

The Cowboy and The Rose Catering

Grand Junction, Colorado, USA