Wow....this week went fast! Time flies when you're having fun...and preparing a meal for 775+ people. Our meal was a SUCCESS!!!! We had a great turn out and everyone gave great feedback to us. Let me paint a picture for all of you of how things played out to make everything come together.
Monday, I spent the day finishing up any odd and ends planning for the luncheon. Labels were printed, cut, and laminated. Decorations were picked up. Ingredients started to arrive for our meal so we started prepping. We had a couple of very labor intensive prep recipes. The roasted root vegetables all needed to be peeled, cut, and chopped (in total 300 lbs of vegetables, yowsers!). It was time to break out the knives, pull up our sleeves, and get down to business. It was a great relief to find our butternut squash already peeled. We got hopeful that maybe all our veggies would be partially prepped for us. Our hopes were soon shot down Tuesday when we switched over to the parsnips, the onions, the beets, and the turnips (and our hands have the blisters to prove it). We did catch a little luck in the end with the carrots because the recipe called for baby carrots, all we had to do was open the bags and dump them into our containers.
Just when I thought I had seen a light at the end of the vegetable tunnel, it was time to start on the peeling and chopping of 94 lbs of sweet potatoes. We finished up the prep by 5 pm and headed home for a bit. We returned to the dining hall at the close of dinner so we could decorate for our luncheon. We gussied the place up, Brittany hung flags (I was about a foot too short to reach the ceiling on the ladder), and then we headed home for a short night's sleep.
The morning of our meal came quick. Our minds were going a mile a minute of all the things we were going to be doing over the next few hours. We got to work and immediately threw ourselves into the hustle and bustle of the day's prep work. I started with making falafel patties, moved onto gyro meat, and then salmon. I had to take care of some front of house things, and then came back to the kitchen to help with panning up the food items. Lunch got started and I switched out of my kitchen clothes and into a more appropriate (and clean) outfit for lunch. Everything ran smoothly, and the customers loved loved loved it!
I have to give snaps out to everyone that has helped us along this journey. We have lots of pictures from the event. Here are just a few that we would like to share:
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