Pretty Nice Little Saturday
The Pokes play Friday night and the Sooners on Saturday night, so local football fans will have a chance to plan what the scholar Frank the Tank — as portrayed by Will Ferrell in “Old School” — calls a pretty nice little Saturday.
I will be at American Propane, 7401 Broadway Ext., from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. for the filming of the Bedlam Tailgating Showdown. You can get the early scoop on whether Cowboys or Sooners prevail in this year’s event.
Otherwise, you can check out 11-year-old chef Remmi Smith, who will host a free cooking class at Metro Appliances & More, 220 NE 150 St., in Edmond from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Chef Remmi was recently honored by The Century Council in Washington, DC. as one of the ‘top 20 People to Watch” in the country. The award was presented to her by fellow recipient and Olympian, Apollo Ohno.
Her career began two years ago as a result of her interest in childhood obesity. In addition to hosting her own local television show on Cox Cable’s access chanel, her signature Italian dressing in now in stores in Oklahoma City and Norman.
Her television show,” The Culinary Kid,” airs on Cox Cable channel 3 on Saturday mornings at 11:30. Remmi encouraged kids to take her C.H.E.F Challenge, which is to Cook Healthy and Exercise Frequently.
As you can see, it’s a big opportunity so don’t waste your energy streaking to the quad tonight.
Tucker’s, Muppets agree: It ain’t easy being green.
Kermit T. Frog was the first to admit it wasn’t easy being green, but A Good Egg Dining Group’s corporate chef, Robert Black, agrees.
That’s because the newest AGE concept, Tucker’s Onion Burgers was recently designated a 2-star Certified Green restaurant by the Green Restaurant association.
Tucker’s scored 128 points, exceeding the GRA’s 100-point minimum to gain the designation. Points are earned via rigorous guidelines, including a minimum of 10 points in each of the following: Energy, Water, Waste, Chemicals, Food, Disposables, and Building.
How did Tucker’s go green?
- Salvaged the ceiling panels from the previous tenant
- Using Green Pest Control Company
- Paperless payroll for employees
- Energy star Lighting for 59% of the bulbs
- Using ionized water to clean instead of toxic chemicals
See here for details of all the steps and points Tucker’s Onion Burgers has completed, and see the full Certification standards here.
Chef Black said the real difficulty comes next year when the restaurant must exceed this year’s score by at least 10 points to maintain it’s, umm, green card. (Don’t tell Randy Terrill!)
Black did say Tucker’s simple menu definitely helped as the percentage of locally sourced products is one of the standards. So, the lack of a crab, shrimp or lobster sandwich definitely helped.
Meanwhile, Tucker’s is doing great business in its first few months of business. So good, in fact, chef Black said a second Tucker’s location should be in the offing for 2012. A little birdy tells me it will be “north” of the current location on NW 23 and Hudson, “but not too far north.”
Wondering how close it will be to the new Smashburger due to open soon on the corner of N. Penn and Memorial, where Harrigan’s once lived.
Meantime, point your carbon footprints toward Tucker’s if you’re hankering for an onion burger as environmentally guilt-free as it is Oklahomacentric.
Have you been to Tucker’s yet? Let me know what you thought.
