No beef with this beef
A sustainable foods group hosts a dinner tonight to recognize area hospitals for reducing their meat purchases.
On the menu at the $100-per-person dinner at Baltimore's Pier Five Hotel: Chicken and beef.
Despite the evening's meat-reducing mantra, no one should have trouble swallowing the Pan-Seared Roseda Beef Tenderloin on Whole Grain Crostini with Sweet Three-Onion Relish or the Honey-and-Herb-Roasted Murray's Chicken with Dijon-Riesling Pan Sauce.
That's because Roseda Beef of Monkton and Murray's Chicken of Pennsylvania are both sustainably raised, said Louise Mitchell, sustainable foods coordinator for Maryland Hospitals for a Healthy Environment.
Besides, she noted, the group is pushing hospitals to reduce the meat they serve patients and cafeteria customers, not eliminate it entirely. (Their goal is to improve diets and the environment.)
There will be lots of veggie dishes to go with that meat. The 90 or so hospital executives, food service directors, doctors, farmers and chefs expected at the event will round out their meals with Sweet Potato Pancakes with Apple Cider Sauce, Vegetarian Chili and Organic Spinach and Artichoke Dip Profiteroles. For dessert: Apple, Honey and Goat Cheese Tart.
Roseda Beef burger at Abbey Burger Bistro. Sun photo by Lloyd Fox
Comments
Shame that they went all the way to Pennsylvania for the chickens, instead of stopping short in Forest Hill (Harford County) for the tasty birds of Granova Poultry. The "Gran" in the name refers to the principal's grandmother. I think he's in middle school now!
Posted by: The Canon | March 5, 2010 12:41 AM
What a shame that hospitals are being pressured by a single issue, narrow minded pressure group, to serve more overcooked vegetables rather than improve the quality of their recipes, purchasing and cooking. Hospital food is demoralising, and reducing the meat content will do nothing for this.
Posted by: Nick | March 8, 2010 1:14 AM
I invite Nick to spend time educating himself about the wonderful things hospital food and nutrition services, and their cooks are doing rather than wasting time making obtuse statements regarding food served in hospitals. Seek to understand man...when you make allegations... back them up with credible facts.
Posted by: Chef Lou | March 15, 2010 11:24 AM
I thought Nick was acute. Hospital food sucks - opinion, doesn't need facts.
Posted by: milly vanilly | March 15, 2010 11:42 AM