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Let’s Dish Offers A Solution To ‘What’s For Dinner’By Mary Ann O'Toole Holley
It's a culinary coup d'etat, a grand slammer for anyone who has ever grimaced when asked, 'what's for dinner?' or thought planning and preparing a meal is drudgery. Designed to provide one-stop shopping for miraculous meals - with no trips to the grocery store, no time-consuming preparations and no messy cleanup - Let's Dish provides far more than ready-to-prepare dinners. Let's Dish lets half-hearted cooks become master chefs, at a fraction of the price. Let's Dish, located at 36 Mid Rivers Center (across from Mid Rivers Mall off Sue Mandy Drive) is the area's newest what's-for-dinner solution. Though drop-ins may purchase "Dish and Dash" frozen dinners ($20), appointments are needed to "dish" your own fresh meal selections. Packages of four meals that serve four to six people are available at $95, and larger packages increase in price based on the number of meals wanted. No contract is required. Lines of stainless steel "dishing stations" are strategically placed throughout the comfortable, casual, bright and clean shop, and, believe it or not, the music of your choice is played over the store's sound system. Recipes are posted at each station along with all the fresh fixings for a particular entrée. Ingredients are there to assemble in your choice of plastic freezer bags or tin foil pans. "It's a chance to save time by avoiding trips to the grocery store and a chance to get out of a rut with new, exciting entrees," said owner and Director of Operations Teresa Hunt. "Basically, all meals take thirty minutes or less to prepare, and photos of the dishes are on display at each dishing station." Want French Farmhouse Chicken with Parmesan Potato Chips? Assemble an aromatic sauce of freshly chopped onions, freshly chopped garlic, tomato paste, Herbes de Provence (a blend of fresh herbs gathered from the mountainsides of the Provence region of France), fresh parsley and white wine (or chicken broth if you prefer). Take it home, pop the chicken on the grill, put the potatoes in the oven, or prepare it all on the stovetop or slow cooker with no muss or fuss. Maybe Jerk Chicken with Pineapple Salsa is more your cup of tea. At another dishing station, pack up six fresh boneless chicken breasts into a bag of jerk-seasoned sauce made yourself from cider vinegar, soy sauce, brown sugar, green onion and garlic. Mix up some sweet and spicy pineapple salsa, and take it all home to cook. Side dishes, bread, rolls and desserts are also available at a nominal cost. If you're like most everyday home cooks, odds are your kitchen hasn't seen that many fresh ingredients at one meal since you tried to impress your mother-in-law. "You can have all meals done with absolutely no waste," Hunt said. "Let's Dish gives people time, it allows you to use as little or as many of the spices and fresh herbs we have, and you won't have to stock your home pantry with an ingredient you may use only once." If you don't care for onions, omit them. If you'd like to go heavier on the cheese or garlic, feel free. There are hard and fast no rules at Let's Dish, only that ingredients must be fresh and customers must be happy. For health-conscious individuals, their website www.letsdish.com, provides all the nutritional data you could ever want. "You can tailor your meal selections to kids and adults," Hunt said. "By dividing meals that feed four to six in half, you can choose spices appropriate to each. There is no additional charge for extra containers." In between dishing various meals, each customer is assigned a private refrigerator. After all the "dishing" is done, a detailed preparation instruction sticker is provided. "The environment at Let's Dish is fun, social, relaxing, casual and most of all easy," Hunt said. "At Let's Dish, everyone becomes a chef." The St. Peters' location becomes the fourth for Let's Dish. Call or register online for your Let's Dish meal selection session or to view various menu options. Menus change monthly. Don't fret about getting messy, Let's Dish will even provide you a stylish apron and bandana for your hair. Let's Dish also provides group, party or business meal gathering sessions. For more information or to schedule your own Let's Dish session, phone 636-397-0107 or visit www.letsdish.com. |
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Let's Dish, the newest "convenience" store in St. Peters, is almost a gift from the heavens.
