Category: Menu

Buying supplies

For the first day or two we thought it might make most sense to buy retail. Here’s Rolando pushing both our carts at Russo’s. Russo’s

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Test menu

I’m playing with the idea of using a dry erase marker on the side of the truck to post the menu. I think I like

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Rolando at work

We’ve got Rolando full time right now. He’s awesome. Here we are working on some recipes, getting ready to open.

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Clover falafel

Rolando is awesome. We’ve been working with falafel recipes. And while nothing we’re making is particularly traditional (neither of us is bound to the middle eastern

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Moffat oven

We’re thinking about adding a full convection oven to the truck. We’d use it for warming food, and perhaps for baking in the morning when

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Soup stocks

Rolando had this idea: we should have fresh stocks steaming away at the restaurant. I wasn’t sure. First, I wasn’t sold on the whole soup

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Henny Penny fryer

A friend turned me on to Henny Penny fryers. They make normal fryers, but specialize in “pressure fryers.”

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ServSafe Certified!

Last Friday I went into the Massachusetts Restaurant Association offices in Southborough, MA and took my ServSafe exam ($50). This is an exam that is

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