Pearls By Izabel Lam

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Pearls By Izabel Lam

Izabel Lam gathered gems from the sea to bring you "Pearls" for your side and tasting dishes - infinite possibilities!
   
Made from porcelain fortified with magnesium, Pearls is handcrafted for superb strength, yet remain delicate in its design.

Perfect for small bites!

Things To Do With Bacon

Things to do with Bacon.

(You can pretend to get healthy in January)

1. Candied.  Drown your favorite bacon in your favorite iteration of sugar. Slow cook until mahogany brown.  It's like a porkgasm.  If you want to turn it up to 11, add a smattering of Chipotle powder.

2. Wrap a beef Fillet. I sort of hate this cut of meat.  Very little marbling, while good for the little black dress set, robs an otherwise tender piece of meat of vital flavor.  Solution?  Wrap that puppy in bacon.  The addition of all that pork lard goodness fixes the issue.

3. Ice berg wedge.  Another supporting role, but vital (Think John Cazale's three best characters) to the ensemble cast.  The angel on the other shoulder of that big piece of lettuce.  And there is a whole separate love affair between Bacon and Blue Cheese, that would show up a little later in the listing.  The synergistic crisp spark makes the dish more than a mere sum of it's parts.

Welcome to Ten Strawberry Street!

The metallic grinding sound of another container being hinged closed. When it floated and rolled in, it was full of porcelain. Empty now, it is just an air filled block to be moved out of the way to open up that bay for another full one. This happens hundreds of times a year out behind Ten Strawberry Street. Inside all those cans, the mountains of corrugated cardboard boxes erode like sand castles slowly disappearing into the surf, by our warehouse-men who move more weight than the Bronco's Offensive line. The summer has knocked the dirt off it's cleats and has headed into the locker room after another championship season. The neighborhood is seeing the first jewel tones of turning leaves on the Maples and Oaks. It's tabletop season. Read below for a few good ideas to make your holidays a little prettier and more fun. Our house is going to be the best decorated one in the neighborhood, as usual!

TEN TOP

Ten Top.  Dream Dinner party. 

I hear talk about Fantasy Football out by the best dumpsters in the business by guys sitting on milk crates drinking domestic beer.  Imagine Fantasy dining.  Alive or Dead,  Fictional characters welcome ... And the parties you throw are so jaw droppingly awesome that no one ever refuses an invitation.  Who do you invite?  You count, who are the other nine people at your Ten Top?  We are inviting all of our friends to submit their fantasy dinner party invitation Ten Top lists at #tentop.  We think it will be an interesting litmus test of the person doing the inviting, we are going to do something nice for the person who comes up with the best list as voted on by our staff of judges.  Not sure what yet, but something.  You know.  Something nice.  Something cool and memorable but not too expensive. (OK ZZ?)

George Washington

Abe Lincoln

Winston Churchill

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

General Patton

Field Marshall Erwin Rommel

Meyer Lanksy

Al Capone

Bill Clinton

Zack Zucker

Ian Zucker agreed to submit the first ten top.  He started this whole company, chain smoking,(10 years no cigs) carrying a good briefcase with a pen in one hand and a rotary dial phone in the other, who better to start this new Social Media experiment?

Alex Raedar: Road Warrior

The Road Warrior looked at the map and said, we need more business in the North West.  So she flew in and spent a little time with Nike's HQ Chef.  Then she had some really good coffee with an event planner at Microsoft HQ.


Josh Smith, one of the youngest rock stars of food service equipment and supplies sales on the West Coast, of Bargreen Ellingson fame, was kind enough to take a meeting on a day that he had no time for a damn meeting with a china factory. As did his director of purchasing. The ball is now rolling amid all those trees.  Alex wants to thank all the new friends she made for the hospitality during her first trip to that part of the country - and she is already planning a return trip.

What's Jammin'?

Our long rectangular serving platter heavy hitter. We have sold so many of these, Zack has lost count. 

Need to lay out a double serve line with salads, rolls, utensils, muffins, cookies, fruit or lau laus?  The two foot by one foot, but shallow, dimensions accommodate a nice portion size without seeming like a trough manned by a lunch lady.  

The wavy inter well embossing and slope of the architecture of the piece adds polished appearance to even simply presented food.

An Interview with Zach Zucker

How did spending a semester on a floating school help prepare you for driving the bus?

I posed this question to Zach and after a penzive moment, he replied: "If it was not for that experience, I might not have joined the family business".  Before this trip to a dozen countries in SE Asia, his view of the world was through his Denver lens.  Seeing how people lived and worked on the other side of the world brought things into focus for the 20 year old Zachary.  Glass and porcelain had provided a pretty nice living for the Zuckers and he saw the potential to take the business to the next level. "I figured I had to at least give this a shot". It's good to have a bus driver who has the business in his blood.

Grateful

We want to get out in front of the traditional time of thanks for us all at the end of next month.  Sure, it is easy to be grateful with all the comfort food, flowing wine and the one time a year that grace is said at most dinner tables anymore, as a reminder to take stock of the things we consider ourselves fortunate in our lives.  

But we are two months away that L-Tryptophan nap at half time in the La-Z-Boy.  It may require a bit more concentration without the wafting aroma of a pie (On a wtr-10cakestand ) to focus on the good stuff.  Our business is rocking this year.  New friends.  Excellent new products in the pipeline.  Extensions of some of the Izabel Lam Out of the Woods collection. 

Things are good - and the sting of the bad times in the rear view amplifies what good means.  

Grateful is in the silver lining.  

A heartfelt THANK YOU to the friends of TSS who put many smiles on our faces.  

Ruby's Home Plate

“Nonna” in Italian is grandmother, but at Nonna’s Italian Bistro Market & Deli it is love. They are a family owned business, continuing a long tradition of serving authentic Italian cuisine with all the love that only Nonna can bring to the table. Nonna’s Italian Bistro Market & Deli opened a new and beautiful location in Centennial, CO,  in September 2014 and most of the menu items are plated upon 10 Strawberry Street products.

Nonna’s Italian Bistro Market and Deli features a romantic outdoor patio with a contemporary fireplace, private dining for large parties, business accommodations with audio and visual capabilities, live entertainment in the form of a piano bar, and a Tuscan style market and deli. The menu has something for everyone, including homemade pasta, veal, chicken, lamb, steak, and seafood; prepared by the chef of the original Nonna’s, Victor Salgado. 




We now have an in house pastry chef to create fresh breads, Italian pastries, and desserts to satisfy that sweet tooth. In accordance with family tradition, our deli serve Chicago style street food, fresh paninis, imported cheeses, and house-made Italian beef, sausage, and giardineira peppers.

The market provides authentic Italian delicacies, herbs, and condiments that no gourmet kitchen should be without. Java Joe’s Barista Bar and Gelato Bar add even more variety to Nonna’s Italian Bistro Market & Deli.

Come for a meal at Nonna’s and you will surely feel the family love…

Tick Tock

This one goes out to all my Chef friends who have sat on my couch over the years. CAS or Calender Aversion Syndrome, affects one in three food service professionals. The big holidays. The ones that wreak havoc with OT, ticket times and the 86 board. They happen on the same days of the year, every year. So for those of you suffering from CAS, your friends here at TSS wanted to help. Please take a moment to absorb the information in a convenient portion size. A countdown clock, showing how many days until the next time the reservation book is going to look like ten pounds of boneless skinless in a five pound cryo bag. This information will hopefully remind our culinary magicians that top hats, rabbits and silk scarves help, but a hot assistant palpably enhances the act. Maybe we have the one you have been looking for.