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TopDaugIn2000
12/9/2007, 12:06 AM
For those that don't know, Tyler Florence is a chef on food network, he's been on about 10 years. He had a show tonight at the Riverwind Casino here in Norman, and my friend and I got tickets. Neither of us have been to the casino yet, so we went early so we could try one of the restaurants in the casino (disappointing to say the least) and then picked up our tickets. With our tickets, we received a "$10 free play" card, so before the show we decided to try our luck (read: lose our free money) on the slots. We found a couple of vacant machines and sat down, I crammed my card into the slot, and it quickly made grumbling noises, ate the card, and nothing happened on the machine. The "seasoned" casino regular next to me told me that the particular machine I was on did not take cards, and that my putting the card into the "money slot" wasn't the right thing to do. I had to call over security (I was totally embarrassed), and they had to disassemble the machine in order to do a "card retrieval". Apparently I'm not the first idiot to do such a thing, because they actually have "code words" for it! After getting my card back, I found another machine and quickly lost my "free $10".

We headed into the theater for the show, ready to see some Tyler cooking. Our seats were ok, but nothing spectacular. There were 4 round tables up ON the stage, and I couldn't help but notice one remained completely empty. Just before the show started they had a drawing, and were going to let the winner's party set at that table. Yeah, right, I never win these things. The very FIRST one they pulled out was Section 201, Row C, Seat 9...MINE!!!!!!!!!!!! We got to sit up on the stage!!!!!!!!! The show was great, Tyler was awesome, and we were served a 3 course dinner (our SECOND dinner, and MUCH better than the first) which included osso buco, squash risotto, and crepes with caramelized applies and candied pecans (HEAVEN). After the show Tyler stuck around for autographs and we rolled ourselves out to the car. It was a great time had by all. :)

Petro-Sooner
12/9/2007, 12:33 AM
Thats awesome!!!!!

Mjcpr
12/9/2007, 12:37 AM
How many times did he say "sort of...." ?

SanJoaquinSooner
12/9/2007, 12:40 AM
Too cool!

tommieharris91
12/9/2007, 12:49 AM
Where did ya eat at?

I made me some money playin poker there last night.

TopDaugIn2000
12/9/2007, 11:41 AM
the sports place "Autographs" had a 30 minute wait, and we didn't have that much time before the show, so we ate at the other place, the "squat and gobble" one. They had bbq, it was just "ok". Not a place I'll rush back to for sure.

phead903
12/9/2007, 04:46 PM
Osso Bucco is one of my favorite dishes - how did he prepare it? Did he use a pressure cooker to speed up the time?

TopDaugIn2000
12/9/2007, 05:05 PM
seared it over the stove in a dutch oven, then added veggies, wine, and broth, then put it in the oven. (of course they had one previously cooked for the show)

Newbomb Turk
12/9/2007, 05:06 PM
seared it over the stove in a dutch oven, then added veggies, wine, and brother

:eek:

TopDaugIn2000
12/9/2007, 05:12 PM
oops. heh, fixed

Newbomb Turk
12/9/2007, 05:14 PM
seriously, that soulds cool TD.

I don't know why, but I can watch them cooking shows all day long.

TopDaugIn2000
12/9/2007, 05:15 PM
same here. love me some food network

SicEmBaylor
12/9/2007, 05:17 PM
I wish I'd known about this. I would have let my sister know about it. She's a food network addict and truly an amazing cook. She's wanting to go to culinary school after high school, and I think she'd be great at it.

She would have really enjoyed this....

Jimminy Crimson
12/9/2007, 05:39 PM
Would have gone if I hadn't had a Christmas party last night. Glad you had a good time, TDi2k.

Curly Bill
12/9/2007, 05:40 PM
I like to watch Giada...she's a fine cook. :D








yes, pun intended

bluedogok
12/9/2007, 05:49 PM
Now with Food Network HD, there are two of them running different shows most of the time. For the most part they only have HD shows on Food-HD.