Natividad Medical Center offers a Certified Farmers' Market Cooking Demo With Paul J Lee

By: Natividad Medical Center
 
Oct. 11, 2014 - PRLog -- Press Contact: Marci Bracco/Chatterbox Public Relations (831) 747-7455

Natividad Medical Center offers a Certified Farmers' Market Every Wednesday from 11:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Join The Farmers Market Cooking Demo With Paul J Lee, CEC® Director, Drummond Culinary Academy at Rancho Cielo Youth Campus on Wednesday, October 29th–Taste and Enjoy!


SALINAS, CA–Natividad Medical Center offers a Certified Farmers' Market every Wednesday from 11:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. The Farmers’ Market is located at 1441 Constitution Blvd., outside of building 200-Out Patient Services and is part of Natividad Medical Center’s ongoing commitment to promote wellness and healthy eating among Natividad Medical Center’s staff, patients and their families.

October Farmers Market:

Join us on Wednesday, October 29th at the Natividad Medical Center Farmers Market.  At 12:00 p.m. at the Farmers Market join Paul J Lee, CEC® Director, Drummond Culinary Academy at Rancho Cielo Youth Campus for a cooking demo with a special recipe.

Chef’s Secrets to Fabulous Sautéed Vegetables

The Main Actors

·         Root Vegetables:  Carrots, Parsnips, Rutabagas, Beets

·         Cruciferous Vegetables:  Broccoli, Broccolini®, Cauliflower,

·         Summer Squash:  Zucchini, Yellow Crookneck

·         The Climbers:  Beans, Sugar Snap Peas

The Supporting Cast

·         Butter or Oils

·         Seasonings:  Salt, Pepper

·         Sweet n Sour:  Sugar, Honey, Vinegars

·         The Extras:  Herbs, Nuts, Garlic, Ginger

Directions:

Blanche the vegetables in plenty of boiling salted water or light chicken stock until al dente.  Shock in ice cold water. Remove from ice water when the vegetables are cold.  Store until needed.
Have a pot of boiling stock or water with a strainer to re-thermalize the vegetables prior to sauté.
Melt the butter in a sauté pan and continue to cook the butter until it just starts to brown and has a nutty aroma.  Immediately add the vegetables to halt the butter from burning.  Season as desired.
With some vegetables, you may want a balance of sweet/sour/salty to balance the bitterness.  I like to add a pinch of sugar, and deglaze my pan with a tsp of fruited or balsamic vinegar.
Optional garnishes:  toasted nuts, crumbled cheese, chopped fresh parsley or herb, sautéed breadcrumbs.
For softer vegetables, such as zucchini and pencil asparagus, omit the blanche/shock step, but briefly drop them in your re-therm pot of water to set the color and soften the texture slightly just prior to sautéing them.

Background:

Paul J Lee, CEC® Director, Drummond Culinary Academy at Rancho Cielo Youth Campus

After 3 years of studies at California State Universities at Long Beach and Humboldt, Paul decided to forsake his career path in Forestry, trading it in for a life at the stoves.  Paul’s destiny was locked into mountain resort hotels, working in Glacier National Park, Montana to Jackson Hole, Wyoming and interrupted by a couple more years of school, graduating from Culinary Institute of America.  Next it was off to beautiful Lake Tahoe where Paul worked for Harrah’s Hotel and Casino for the next 21 years. Positions as chef de cuisine in varied restaurant concepts led to Executive Chef and Director of Culinary Operations for Harvey’s and Harrah’s Hotel Casinos, overseeing 18 kitchens.  In 2002, Paul and his wife Barbara, relocated to Monterey.  It was time for a change from 30 years in mountain resorts to this beautiful Monterey Peninsula.  Paul was quickly taken in by the local chefs and has thrived as a leading culinary educator, teaching Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management at Monterey Peninsula College.  Paul is a veteran of many of the local events in Monterey including Carmel Tomato Fest, Cooking for Solutions, Meals on Wheels Culinary Classique d’Elegance, and the Panetta Institute’s Jefferson-Lincoln Awards.

Paul’s dedication to education and culinary arts keeps him involved in several boards and committees including Rancho Cielo’s Drummond Culinary Academy, Chaine De Rotisseurs Jeune Commis, Mission Trails ROP Career Technical Education, Monterey County Hospitality Association, NRAEF Certified ServSafe Instructor, Chef Certification Evaluator for the American Culinary Federation, and Food Safety Advisory Council for Monterey County.  Currently, Paul is focused on educating and training students at Rancho Cielo and serves as Past President for 2 professional chefs’ associations: the American Culinary Federation, Monterey Bay Chapter, and Les Toques Blanches, International, Monterey Chapter. Paul was honored as Monterey’s ACF 2006 Chef of the Year and United Way’s 2012 Adult Volunteer of the Year. In 2013, Chef Paul was inducted into Disciples Escoffier International.

For more information on Natividad Medical Center Certified Farmer’s’ Market contact :

Everyone's Harvest

Contact: Iris Peppard, Executive Director
Tel: (831) 384-6961
Fax: (831) 582-9546
www.everyonesharvest.org
For information on Natividad Medical Center contact Marci Bracco (831) 747-7455.

About Natividad Medical Center

Natividad Medical Center is a Monterey County owned and operated 172 bed acute care hospital providing health care services to the people of the county for more than 127 years. Natividad Medical Center offers inpatient, outpatient, emergency, diagnostic and specialty medical care. NMC provides more than 34,000 patient days each year and more than 47,000 emergency department visits per year. NMC is ranked #1 in newborn deliveries in Monterey County. Natividad is the only teaching hospital on the Central Coast, through its affiliation with the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). With a medical staff of more than 228 physicians, Natividad’s mission is to continually improve the health status of the people of Monterey County through access to affordable, high-quality health care services. Natividad is based in Salinas, California. For more information, please call 831-755-4111 or visit www.natividad.com.

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