For the past couple months, my chef/husband has been working on menu development for a couple other restaurants in his company.  (This has been on top of his Executive Chef position . . . hmmmm . . .)

So the other day after the girls got off the bus, my husband tells us that one of the restaurants is rolling our part of the new menu that evening and asks us if we wanted to go try it.

The first response from our 9 year old – “Do we get to get dressed up in fancy dresses?”

She’s only 9.  We’re in trouble.

Sure why not.

Like I’ve said before, we don’t go out to eat very often.  And this evening would definitely feel like work for my chef/husband since it was his recipes we’d be eating.

But feeling like work or not, he suggested it so we were going.

All you have to do is mention going out to eat at a restaurant where Daddy has something to do with the food and the girls are excited!

15 minutes later, 3 girls in fancy dresses with cute hair and Mom and Dad in jeans and shorts (we like to be comfortable) piled in the car and off we went to dinner.

My chef/husband ordered a ton of food for us so we could try as many of the new items as possible.  And of course, we all ate way too much!

Walnut Crusted Brie –
housemade seasonal preserves (AMAZING!!!!!), toasted walnuts, grilled bread

Everything tasted great and was executed well.  (Yay!!  Great meal for us and my chef/husband was happy.)

I guess this was not exactly your typical dinner out as a family, but my favorite way to eat out . . .  my husband’s recipes and him at the table with us (and the company paying for it.)  Being married to a chef isn’t all bad . . .

From one chef wife to another,