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Chopped Chef Champion Announces Her Menu for Bronx Visit

Posted in: PelhamGardens Bronx NY Community Connection
Look What's Cookin at SCA

 

Luísa Fernandes, a renowned Chopped Chef Champion (2009), is bringing her culinary creativity to St. Catharine's for this year's Trustee Scholar Event, on Sunday, Nov. 3, from 4:30 to 7 p.m. 

 

At St. Catharine’s, Chef Luisa will share her passion and knowledge as she works her cooking magic in the intimacy of SCA’s newly renovated Dining Hall.  Proceeds will benefit student financial aid and the Trustee Scholar Program.  Seating is limited. She is a native of Monte Real, Leiria, Portugal, Always passionate about cooking, she dedicated the first 30 years of her professional life as an orthopedic surgery assistant. Luisa is always ready to take on new challenges, even serving as a parachute nurse in the Sudan and Rwanda.

 

In 1998, without any professional culinary experience, she opened her own restaurant in Lisbon, Tachos de São Bento. After a great deal of success and critical acclaim, she decided to move to New York to continue her culinary success. Within 15 days of arriving, Luisa was working as pastry chef in the Portugese restaurant Alfama. She also worked as pastry chef for the Portugal Presidency at the United Nations; executive chef for Georgia’s Bakery and Bistro in New York City and executive chef at Nomad Restaurant, to name a few. Currently, Luisa is the executive chef at Robert Restaurant, located at Columbus Circle in the Museum of Art and Design in New York City.

 

She brings her experiences of traveling the world to the kitchen, making each dish uniquely Chef Luisa!

 

Menu:
Appetizers:
Mixed green salad
Beet salad with goat cheese
Risotto cakes with saffron and truffle oil

 

Main course:
Scotch salmon with sweet potato purée and grapes
Chicken with cauliflower and mushroom sauce
Paella

 

Desserts:
Cheese cake
Cheese mousse with passion fruit purée
Rice Pudding Portuguese style
Fruit salad
Farofias
Dinner will be served with wine or non-alcoholic beverages.
All food will be prepared in the SCA renovated kitchen.
Chef Luisa will speak about her experiences as a celebrity chef as well as prepare this delicious meal.

 

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