![]() ![]() Money plans: "Save what's left, I suppose, and find a new home sometime soon."Īlton Brown: "Going into this I was very anxious to meet and observe Alton off camera. Living in: "State parks, city parks, the desert, the beach, the mountains, behind trees, beside rivers and below the stars." Here is more about Christensen and his impressions of "Cutthroat" host Alton Brown.Ĭurrent work: "Fire starting, map reading, trail running, camp cooking, microbrewery finding, life learning, waterfall hunting husband and dogfather (stepfather)." He was raised in the East Valley and went to Desert Vista High School. ![]() ![]() "After many years of putting in long, exhausting (and of course, rewarding) hours in the restaurant, we decided we owed ourselves a grand adventure filled with outdoor exploration, beer and wine tastings, getting lost, being lazy or crazy, and it's been a blast."Ĭhristensen said he filmed the show in September and worked at the Tinderbox Kitchen "up until the new year." He's lived in Flagstaff for nearly seven years. Starting in Southern Arizona to California, California to Oregon, and we are now currently exploring Washington," he told us by e-mail. "I recently married my best friend, Caitlin Swan, and as a honeymoon (enabled by the 'Cutthroat' cash winnings), we decided to travel/ roadtrip/ camp/ bum around the West Coast in a vintage 1983 Scamp travel trailer. When we caught up with him this week, the 25-year-old was enjoying time away from the kitchen. Flagstaff AZ.Derek Christensen was a sous chef at the Tinderbox Kitchen in Flagstaff when he won $8,900 on Sunday's episode of Food Network's "Cutthroat Kitchen." To make your reservation call 92 or go to their website. The dinner is $85 per person ++ and wine and cocktail pairings are additional. Oreo cookie crust, raspberries, chocolate sauce Roasted garlic mashers, braised rainbow chard, tomato saffron broth, crispy leek Smashed yukon potatoes, broccolini, red wine demi-glace Roasted garlic mashers, blistered green beans, mushroom demi-glace Orzo, butternut squash, pomegranate, elderberry molasses, pecanĪngel hair pasta, sun-dried tomato cream, lemon, parsley Shallot, cracked pepper, red wine vinegar Parsnip puree, baby carrot, brussels’ sprouts Port geleé, red onion marmalade, grilled bread Spiced Grapefruit Negroni or Sparkling Rosé The menu is as follows.īaby greens, fennel, goat cheese, pistachio NYE menu at Tinderbox KitchenĮach dish offers a suggested pairing of an optional glass of wine or classic cocktail. He considers the risotto the “dark horse” of the menu. The menu is vegan friendly with Schmitz recommends the Fig & Brie Bruschetta and the Mushroom and Black Truffle Risotto. “From start to finish it’s a beautiful dish both in its complete form and in the process,” which Chef describes as a two day process, breaking down the whole duck and using it across the menu and marinating the liver for the pate. The seasonally focused prix-fixe menu offers 4 dishes to choose from on courses 1 and 2 and six protein focused entrees.Ī favorite dish is the pate Schmitz learned to make when working with Chef Jessica from Big Grove. Chef Mike Schmitz three-course meal and dessert gives revelers much to think about choosing from course to course. “Baseball for Babbo” fundraiser honors restaurant’s founderĬategories Categories Follow me on Twitter My Tweetsįlagstaff’s Tinderbox Kitchen wants the last meal of 2018 to be a memorable one.Pickles opens its first Arizona location with more to come Chase Field offering new food items and mobile food ordering.Sips & Bites: News from the Phoenix restaurant community.Summer food and drink menus & specials at Phoenix area restaurants.Giving Tree Cafe shows sign of hope with life size sculpture.The Uncommon brings 70s, 80s, & 90s nostalgia eatery to Chandler. ![]()
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