well, snakes don't have PARTS, but if i had to call it anything, i'd say it's his knee

so, work has been as both crazy and slow as a new restaurant usually is.  yesterday we were crazy slow cause it was president's day.  now, at all my old restaurants, presidents day is usually busy, cause we're open and not much else is, but since new joint is downtown across from the courthouse, it was absolutely dead yesterday.  now, the whole last week has been pretty good, steady lunches, breakfast is getting busier every day, and the bar just kills it at night.  yesterday i felt bad cause me and el chefe hadn't had a ticket all day and we were playing around with food and when we finally did get orders we weren't set up or ready in the slightest.  it didn't take all that long for food to hit the window but it was certainly longer than i'm used to for lunch tickets (which i try to keep under eight minutes).  and since we're downtown we really gotta get on that ticket time cause downtown people only got a certain chunk of time they can eat and we need to get them in, get them fed, and get them out.

anyway, today will be better, cause it's fat tuesday, and we're doing a huge ass crawfish boil.  fifteen bucks gets you a bucket of crawfish, sausage, corn, and potatoes, and pitchers of hurricanes are 7 bucks.  so hopefully we're busy.  also hopefully the crawfish gets here by noon, which is when the posters say we're starting.  we have to cook outside cause i guess the whole business stinks to high hell, but it's gonna be interesting to say the least.

anyway, the special i had in mind on valentines day didn't get served the way i had initially intended.  ok, it was a lobster, ricotta, and meyer lemon (a lemon/mandarin orange hybrid) ravioli with parsley and dill, and served with a roasted corn and chive cream sauce.  i came up with the dish from start to finish, i shopped for the ingredients, and i hand made all the ravis.  so, to my surprise, el chefe served it slightly differently than i wanted, and so yesterday we had a chef off to see who's dish was better.  we each made one ravi and served it the way we wanted.  mine looked like this.

 

el chefe made it like this

 

he fried the ravi and put a chocolate drizzle under it and served sauce on the side.  i thought his ravi had a better texture but i still like my dish...anyway, apples and oranges.  what do you guys think?