Racing has begun

Racing has begun First of all let me apologize for not keeping up with this blog, it has been a long time since I posted anything. I am planning on making a real effort to do this blog at least weekly during our busy times. So this past weekend was our first real event of 2012. Opening weekend of the Garden State Quarter Midget Racing Club where we do the concession stand on Sundays at the little track at Wall Speedway in Wall, NJ. The club races Quarter midget cars with the drivers ranging from 5 - 17 years old. We had a good car count but unfortunatly the weather did not cooperate. Friday night practice was good but chilly. Saturday we arrived to rain which continued until they cancelled racing at around 2:00. Business was ok for the day considering the rain. Sunday they chose to do the entire show from Saturday as well as the main events from Sunday. We got an early start at 7:00 am and the day was much better then Saturday. They ran a very quick show as rain was approaching again. We are off next Sunday for Easter and then back racing the following Sunday. If anyone is interested in coming out and watching it is free admission, racing usually starts at 10:00 am and continues until around 5 or 6 depending on how many cars are there. We would love to see you out there. Check out some video from the weekend.



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It has been a bit since I last posted anything on here so I will give a summary. We did a few street fairs Bradley Beach on Memorial Day weekend and The Belmar Seafood Festival. As usual Bradley Beach was a good time, you can never go wrong with the combination of the beach, holiday weekend, great food and beautiful scenery. The weather was nice all weekend and a good time was had by all.




We also did a catering job for Stevens Institute of Technology on the Hudson River in Hoboken, NJ. All I can say is WOW college kids can eat, we did not have a crumb left and the view was so beautiful with NYC right across the river. We then catered a benefit motorcycle run for the Ronald McDonald House of Southern NJ in Camden, NJ. We donated the food and gor help from, my mother, Emmy, Jordan, Rebecca and Reg who thankfully all donated their time to help the kids. This was a great day despite the weather.

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Here are some new videos:

1. how to make butterfly fries - do not try this at home children.
2. BBQ Ribs and a Pig Roast Party Enjoy





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Pig Roast Catering Job

This was one of the first big catering jobs of the season and the weather continued right where it ended last year, rain.

The occasion was a communion and it was for 80 guests.

The menu consisted of a Whole roasted pig, Italian marinated grilled boneless chicken breast, hot dogs, baby back ribs, baked beans, red skin potato salad, fruit salad and assorted cookies for dessert.

I decided to attempt smoking the ribs for the first time. I used a combination of Hickory and Mesquite wood and my secret dry rub. I amoked them for 4 hours and they came out soooooo good, moist, smokey and good.

The crew was myself, Michelle and Jeff, my wife was also there since the racetrack where we have a concession stand on Sundays was rained out.

The party went great, they loved the food especially the ribs and were very happy. Another job well done. The only interesting thing was when my wife set off the house alarm (the customers were at church) trying to get into the house from the garage for the restroom. The poice arrived just as the customer did. It was a bit embarassing but they were fine with it.

I have posted some pictures. There are more at our facebook fan page at www.facebook.com/drjcatering.

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Somers Point Bayfest Street Fair - April 24, 2010

Well it must be Spring if we are doing our first street fair. This is always our first one of the year in Somers Point, NJ which is about 15 minutes south of Atlantic City.

It is located right on the bay and is usually a pretty good event. This year was sunny but a bit cool. The crew was myself, my wife, Jeff and Jordan.

The tradition is to go down on friday night and stay in a motel.
We then go to Atlantic City for dinner, this time we ate at the Borgata buffet. This is a great buffet, we did it justice.

Our daughter Jordan worked her first all day street fair with us and she did great. She was in charge of ladelling out the lemonade and iced tea from a giant bin. We have been doing these fairs for over 10 years and have had many people work for us, but my 10 year old daughter was the first one to think of filling up a bunch of cups ahead of time with ice. Thats my daughter, love you Jordan.

Our menu today was Butterfly Fries, fresh cut fries, crabcake sandwiches, chicken fingers and fries, burgers, sausage and pepper sandwiches, cheese steak sandwiches, our famous pulled pork sandwiches and iced tea and lemonade. We really got hammered on the butterfly fries, sold about 300 orders.

All in all it was a great day, I am posting a few pics on here to see, but all of them are at our facebook fanpage (please join) www.facebook.com/drjcatering.

Radio Interview

I just wanted to let everyone know that a good friend of mine Jewels that I know from culinary school interviewed me for her monthly radio show about my olympic experience.. The show will air on March 26th. The station is WNTI 91.9 and it served Northern New Jersey. If you do not live in that area you can go on their website http://www.wnti.org/ and listen live. The show is on at 8:00 am. Also if you do not want to get up that early or forget they archive the shows so you can go online anytime after the 26th and listen.

Hope you tune in

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At the airport

Well I guess this is time for a retrospective of the last month.

It seems like yesterday I was kissing my family goodbye and heading for an adventure, not knowing what exactly the job I would be doing entailed, not knowing who I would be rooming with or if we would all get along, not knowing how a 42 year old American would be greeted by our Canadian neighbors, and just generally wondering about the whole situation.

Well I can say with 200% certainty that, next to having children and getting married this has been the single most exciting, enjoyable and awe inspiring experience of my life. I am flying back to the USA and New Jersey with a new view on life and the world, this experience has changed me both inside and out. I never would have thought, back in December when I said to my wife "I have an idea" and she responded like she usually does when I make such a statement saying "uh oh", that this would make such an impact on me, especially considering the fact that the idea was originally only to earn some extra money during our slow winter months.

There is nothing about this experience that I can say was negative, even when things sometimes became frustrating, I thought to myself, who cares I am at the Olympics. From day one when I arrived and picked up my Olympic Credentials ( I thought I was soooo cool walking around with them around my neck, until I realized every other person had them), to meeting my room mates, to my first day working, to my first Olympic event, to the first athlete I saw walking around the village, to the first 3:00 am night of partying with the 20 year olds ( there were many of those), to watching the USA hockey team play and win, to watching Americans such as Bode Miller and many others accepting their medals live, to just walking around the village and looking at people.

On My first day of work the owner of Whistler Cooks who I worked for said to all 450 of us employees, at some point during the next 4 weeks you are all going to have your "Olympic moment" and when you do you will know it. Well it seemed I was having those moments every 5 minutes.

I am so, so glad my wife was able to come out and share the experience with me. It was only for 3 days and was definatly not easy to get there and get back for her. In the end though we shared something very special that I do not know will ever be duplicated.

At my job in the end, working out of trailers, we served the ticketholders, press, media, volunteers, Vanoc, Kings, Queens and other dignitaries over 500,000 meals in 3 weeks, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, quite an accomplishment.

I know in reality the 3 weeks of the Olympics is not real life, in real life Isreal would not walk into an arena next to Iran, and other countries that have waged war against each other in the past and present would not be drinking in the same bar, but this is what happens for 3 or 4 weeks during the Olympics. It would be great if this was real life.

I want to thank everyone at home, Reg for taking care of the business stuff, my wonderful children for just being, my mother for helping out with the girls and entertaining my wife, my inlaws for the financial support, Krystal and Wendi for holding down the fort at work. Without you guys this trip never would have been a reality. I thank you and love you all.

I have a few more pictures I will post when I get home, until then thank you for listening the last month.

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