Steve in "Be the Chef" at Benihana's

By the great suggestion of my sister in law, Melissa,

I bought Steve for Christmas the

"Be the Chef" training at Benihana.

Two of Steve's favorite shows to watch

are Top Chef and Iron Chef so to him this opportunity

made him somewhat giddy.

For those of you that know him, you

might find this interesting as my husband is

known for his extremely picky refined culinary taste.

(By the way, please don't take this as hubby bashing!)

It just makes this whole thing all the more entertaining and

provides a good background for this event. 

Steve's idea of a delicious dinner and perfect evening is to

steam a trough bowl of rice and fry up several pieces of bacon then

park himself perfectly centered in front of the television as

he watches the chefs make their best creations with

things like eel and squid while he feasts on rice and bacon....go figure. 

Steve, you are darling and so funny!

He was a bit nervous thinking he was going to forget things that
he learned the week before in his training while cooking for us
but he did great! You could tell he was really enjoying himself.

Steve even flipped some shrimp tails into his hat!

Here Steve did his favorite task, "The Train".

Here he is making some quite delicious fried rice. The meal really turned out fantastic.

So proud of our chef -We had a blast and a very yummy meal (really!)