Holy crap, we helped a friend out yesterday when she needed help in catering supper for a school drama club fund raiser in her home community. Little did we know how much work went into putting this meal on. Both the missus and I have a lot of owies this morning and its going to take a few Aleve or Tylenol to get through the day. Oh, we'll live but I'm thinking we may not do that again.
Oh, how many did we feed? A small gathering of 300! Yup 300 people and everything was prepared fresh, no store bought ready to cook stuff here. The menu consisted of chicken cordon bleu, baked ham, three salads, creamy mashed potatoes with chives, carrots, peas and pearl onions, rice and peas and a ton of dessert. All the chicken cordon bleu was pan browned (over 300 pieces and I did them all in two little fry pans) then baked in the oven. Around 100 of potatoes and well you can imagine the rest. It might have been fun if we'd had a little more help but there were just three of us to do it all. Oh we got bits and pieces of help prior but the three of us did the bulk and I'm dang tired today. Oh well, its a long way from my heart as they say and at least I'll have an excuse for a nap this afternoon or maybe sooner.
Have a great Sunday. Dave.
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