Noche Argentina -Catering a tennis tournament

Howdy folks...

On friday a teammate and i made a catering at a tennis tournament for our beef sponsor. It was a 550 miles roadtrip for me and we had lots of hurdles and some major PITA but after all it was still a great event.





Heres the Que-mobile after a 250 miles drive in the summer...







Since i arrived quite early i had time to enjoy some tennis











After watching the women play for a while i almost decided to quit grilling and apply for a job as a ball boy.

Well, time to do some work, and thats where the troubles began.

Heres my buddy "Camillo" who is supposed to be my grilling "wingman" and who organized a lot since he was a local over there.

Note his left hand...

A knife slipped out of his hand and in a reflex he tried to catch it.

FAIL !



He cut a tendon of a finger and right on the bone and had to have immediate surgery. He is out of hospital already, but has a lot of pain and a cast on his left arm for 4 - 6 weeks. Take care using knifes !

So, now i was on my own with a couple of helpers to assemble the plates ,serve the food and collect the cash to arrive later.

Heres more than 200 portions of orange-garlic butter and chipotle butter



Argentinian Beef Strip Loin, smoked a day ahead and sliced thin for sandwiches



Heres the booth.







I had to wait for more than 2 hours to bring the smoker in because the referee said the tennis players might get confused when we pull the smoker on the main road along the courts. Nerds !
Off course that delayed the timing bigtime.

Then the restaurant at the location went nuts.
I had a bad feeling about them since i arrived and they clearly showed they didnt like us to cater that evening since that meant they wouldnt have any business at all.
Since it was all arranged with the organizer of the event we were told we could use the kitchen and cooling but they sabotaged all they could until i told them to get stuffed and pulled out of there. A**holes...
There we were without a kitchen and proper cooling, but our sponsor managed to call in one of their cooling trucks just in time.

Heres the Menu



250 grams Argentinian Strip Steak or smoked striploin roast with our butters, chimichurri, corn and salad

280 grams of irish angus beef cheeseburger

Smoked roastbeef sandwich

Smoked Chorizo Sandwich with chimichurri

Corn on the cob with butter

All the meat was prime argentinian beef except for the fantastic irish burgers and chorizos.

Heres the first load of strip loin in the smoker and some chorizos for a test run. The chorizos were smoked for about 45 minutes and the finished on the grill










Heres a Choripan Sandwich, chorizo with chimichurri and bread.



Roastbeef Sandwiches



Yummie !









Some of the guests actually wanted me to put their slices of the striploin on the grill for a couple of minutes because they liked it well done.
I told em the cow was dead already but they didnt care.

That was really painful.


Heres the stripsteaks










Cooked about 100 pounds of those irish burgers on the outlaw.
You wont believe the smell of that grill now.

If only i could bottle that ;-)




















Heres my wonderful support team. Now thats the way i like it.




Thats it, i was too busy to take more or better pics.

After all the troubles it was still a great event, we had lots of fun and the guests loved it.

Cheers,

DM

Marco- I have one hunderd million comments but let me just say YOU ARE MY COOKING HERO!!!!!!!

The food looks awesome.

Eye candy as well and you got paid.. Talk about a good day.

One word...

WOW!

I'd take the food OR the helpers ANY day! Despite the challenges...GREAT JOB!

(Reminder to self: DO NOT CATCH A FALLING KNIFE.)

Great work Marco. Those steak and burgers looked great!

Jenx

Very impressive, thanks for the pics and the info very interesting.

DM, was it a ladies tournament (with one bloke)

The food as always looks great... the new helpers have my approval too!