Work today
Today was the busiest. no THIS WEEKEND was the busiest weekend at work ever. Today alone we went through 20 pans of mashed potatoes before 4pm. It was crazy. We ran out of pork chops and had cooked 5 peach cobblers to serve between noon and they were gone by 2:30pm.
Things got really backed up in the dish pit so Ms. Teresa (my boss) went over there. and I was in charge of the kitchen basically for about an hour...the craziest hour of my life. Dressing, pork chops, meat loaf, garlic biscuits, mac n cheese, mashed potatoes, cabbage, green beans, turkey, cobbler. Half of that food cooks in a oven. We only had one oven that worked and it was acting too slow. We normally have two 6 rack convection ovens. which things so much smoother. it's been out for 3 weekends now. before that it was one of the electric pots. We just use it to death.
Today was my first day marinating pork chops. We marinate them in salad oil and rotissere seasoning, course I thought we used burger fry season, apparently that's just all salt so i had to rinse them and re marinate them. Apparently they were good, coz the still got gone quick.
We have a new dishwasher, I don't really care for him too much. I don't like his work ethic, he just seems too laid back and not very good at multi tasking. He also hates it when I order him around coz He's prolly at least 25, and I look 16. But eventually he has to do what I say anyway. He needs to get over himself. He also didn't know that I was a prep cook b/c yesterday i backed him up in the dishpit for awhile when it was crazy busy. So today he was like 'when are going to the pit?' and I got kind of rued which i felt bad. I snapped out 'I'm a prep cook, I just wash dishes when people are on break or its busy. that's not my main job.'
We ran out of mac n cheese too. That wasn't fun. And when I left we were soon to run out of Meatloaf. Our meatloaf is good, I hear. The mixture we use in the beef has oatmeal and eggs and tomato sauce. which sound so odd I know. But it makes a good cohesive loaf.
My brain was spinning, I had to talk out loud to remember to do every thing. 'Put the pork chops in the oven. take the garlic biscuits out. put the mashed potatoes in the Henny Penny(warmer), put the gravy and mac n cheese in the microwave, put some green beans and cabbage in the pot, hit the timer on the microwave again. take out the pork chops, put in some cobble and somemore p. chops, check the Henny, put the macncheese and gravy in the HP. take out the cabbage, get some cubed steak...'
whoo. It was a long day. but at the end of it I said to my boss. 'I think i did all rite' and she said ' I think you did damn good. think you'll be ready when i go on vacation?'
I think I could run the kitchen while she's gone for a bit. After months i finally got it down.
DK
the college chef.
Things got really backed up in the dish pit so Ms. Teresa (my boss) went over there. and I was in charge of the kitchen basically for about an hour...the craziest hour of my life. Dressing, pork chops, meat loaf, garlic biscuits, mac n cheese, mashed potatoes, cabbage, green beans, turkey, cobbler. Half of that food cooks in a oven. We only had one oven that worked and it was acting too slow. We normally have two 6 rack convection ovens. which things so much smoother. it's been out for 3 weekends now. before that it was one of the electric pots. We just use it to death.
Today was my first day marinating pork chops. We marinate them in salad oil and rotissere seasoning, course I thought we used burger fry season, apparently that's just all salt so i had to rinse them and re marinate them. Apparently they were good, coz the still got gone quick.
We have a new dishwasher, I don't really care for him too much. I don't like his work ethic, he just seems too laid back and not very good at multi tasking. He also hates it when I order him around coz He's prolly at least 25, and I look 16. But eventually he has to do what I say anyway. He needs to get over himself. He also didn't know that I was a prep cook b/c yesterday i backed him up in the dishpit for awhile when it was crazy busy. So today he was like 'when are going to the pit?' and I got kind of rued which i felt bad. I snapped out 'I'm a prep cook, I just wash dishes when people are on break or its busy. that's not my main job.'
We ran out of mac n cheese too. That wasn't fun. And when I left we were soon to run out of Meatloaf. Our meatloaf is good, I hear. The mixture we use in the beef has oatmeal and eggs and tomato sauce. which sound so odd I know. But it makes a good cohesive loaf.
My brain was spinning, I had to talk out loud to remember to do every thing. 'Put the pork chops in the oven. take the garlic biscuits out. put the mashed potatoes in the Henny Penny(warmer), put the gravy and mac n cheese in the microwave, put some green beans and cabbage in the pot, hit the timer on the microwave again. take out the pork chops, put in some cobble and somemore p. chops, check the Henny, put the macncheese and gravy in the HP. take out the cabbage, get some cubed steak...'
whoo. It was a long day. but at the end of it I said to my boss. 'I think i did all rite' and she said ' I think you did damn good. think you'll be ready when i go on vacation?'
I think I could run the kitchen while she's gone for a bit. After months i finally got it down.
DK
the college chef.