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trombonish) wrote2014-08-04 01:02 pm
trombonish) wrote2014-08-04 01:02 pm
Sunday food. Most of which was consumed on Monday.
I LIVED. I am SO glad it is over. It was kinda fun, in a way. But so much stress. So much standing in the kitchen. So much griddles.
Sunday morning started about 8am cooking grilled cheese sandwiches. Friday I had made grilled cheese but only 83ish and people made sad noises about not getting enough food. So I stood there and made ALL the grilled cheese I had materials for. But it was only about 90. So around 10ish I headed off to the grocery store, picked up more ingredients, and in theory what I needed for dinner too. Came home, made another 40ish grilled cheese. Delivered to the con around noon, with (more) leftover gumbo.
So, 130 grilled cheese in 3.5ish hrs of standing at the stove. On my 4-sandwich stovetop griddle, and my REALLY SLOW electric griddle. I guess I just don't have electric griddle skillz. I would do 2-3 rounds on the stovetop griddle in the time it took to do 1 on the electric, and the electric ones never browned evenly - you could basically see where the heating element was under the griddle pan. And even at the medium-highish temp of 325, the cheese wouldn't melt by the time the grilling was done, so I was reluctant to turn it up higher.
Post-delivery, I thought, "well, I have LOTS of hours to make dinner tonight, dead dog won't be any earlier than midnight, for sure. But I should nap beforehand so I'm not totally impossible (I am not a night person at all). Let's make dinner, then nap"
So that was about noon/noon-thirty, by the time I ate lunch.
I commenced converting the remaining 6 loaves of bread (and 4 of them were giant, costco loaves) into french toast around 1. Finished around 6. Five hours standing at the griddle. then started in on the scrambled eggs, and made a batch of home-fries (baked/fried potato chunks, VERY tasty). Around 7ish I had to go fetch the lunch stuff out of the hotel, because cleanup/packing was starting. (Amusing aside - people associate my appearance with food. So I showed up to take away food, and people went, "Ooo! more food!". I had to tell them, no, just taking food away this time. Have to come to dead dog for more food, after pack-out.) Made ANOTHER trip to the store on the way home. Came home, cooked more scrambled eggs, home-fries, started in on the meats around 10. On the griddle. Finished just before midnight. Dinner took ELEVEN HOURS to cook, and hands-on hours at that.
I ~did~ get a bit of a nap in between midnight and taking food over to the community center around 1. Thank goodness for that.
And then, I think people were being bratty about traveling over to the community center for dead dog, because there was only like 25 or 30ish people. Paul said they were being hopeless at loading the truck too. I guess this happens every year. Only last year, the useless people at least sat around and watched the functional people load the truck at the civic center. Since the con was at the hotel proper this year, the useless people just went to bed and the hard worker people loaded.
So people showed up around 3, people ate, but left lots of leftovers. I gave up and packed out around 5am, but the talking was still going strong.
So now I am done with cooking for con, but still with an enormous amount of food in my house. I froze 8 qts of curry yesterday. On the second grocery trip, bought 6 big ziplock freezer containers (9.5 cups, it says on the side), and filled 5 of them with gumbo. It is in the fridge because I haven't yet attempted to freezer tetris it into the deep freeze. I was bewildered and unhappy with all the leftover breakfast-type foods, but then I brainstormed to convert the leftover sausage/eggs/potatoes into breakfast burritos. Made 6 with our tortillas on hand, need to go buy more tortillas. French toast was made into a stack of pb&j for Paul to take to the truck-unloading party, but that got delayed til 7 tonight. And that was still only like half the french toasts. Some of the ones that didn't get pb&j'd are in ok shape just torn up, others were on the outside edge and kinda got overcooked by being right up against the walls of the turkey roaster.
I didn't do nearly as much baking as I'd hoped over the course of con, so we still have 3 gal of milk and many quarts of yogurt. Did use pretty much all the eggs though. And bananas! I had no idea how many bananas to buy. I think I ended up with 40-50. The folks at dead dog did a very good job on them, ate at least half. But Paul and I need to eat bananas like crazy the next two days. And then I'll freeze whatever is left.
The good news is one of my most FAVORITE breakfast foods is mashed banana with plain yogurt. I am positive someone must have fed it to me in my impressionable years, but my mom swears it wasn't her. Now I can have LOTS of mashed banana with plain yogurt! So not so worried about the yogurt getting eaten.
Basically, we have food for the next couple weeks. But, to me, the leftovers and not having to cook are some of my reward for doing all this work. because it was a TON of work, even if the people who actually "worked" con don't see it. I don't think I "worked" con any less than someone who was actually at con. I did nothing for 3 days besides cook and sleep. And I know they like to be machoist about not sleeping at con, but sleeping is a VERY HIGH PRIORITY for me, whether at con or at home. So I did sleep, even if I did nothing but sleep and cook.
Sunday morning started about 8am cooking grilled cheese sandwiches. Friday I had made grilled cheese but only 83ish and people made sad noises about not getting enough food. So I stood there and made ALL the grilled cheese I had materials for. But it was only about 90. So around 10ish I headed off to the grocery store, picked up more ingredients, and in theory what I needed for dinner too. Came home, made another 40ish grilled cheese. Delivered to the con around noon, with (more) leftover gumbo.
So, 130 grilled cheese in 3.5ish hrs of standing at the stove. On my 4-sandwich stovetop griddle, and my REALLY SLOW electric griddle. I guess I just don't have electric griddle skillz. I would do 2-3 rounds on the stovetop griddle in the time it took to do 1 on the electric, and the electric ones never browned evenly - you could basically see where the heating element was under the griddle pan. And even at the medium-highish temp of 325, the cheese wouldn't melt by the time the grilling was done, so I was reluctant to turn it up higher.
Post-delivery, I thought, "well, I have LOTS of hours to make dinner tonight, dead dog won't be any earlier than midnight, for sure. But I should nap beforehand so I'm not totally impossible (I am not a night person at all). Let's make dinner, then nap"
So that was about noon/noon-thirty, by the time I ate lunch.
I commenced converting the remaining 6 loaves of bread (and 4 of them were giant, costco loaves) into french toast around 1. Finished around 6. Five hours standing at the griddle. then started in on the scrambled eggs, and made a batch of home-fries (baked/fried potato chunks, VERY tasty). Around 7ish I had to go fetch the lunch stuff out of the hotel, because cleanup/packing was starting. (Amusing aside - people associate my appearance with food. So I showed up to take away food, and people went, "Ooo! more food!". I had to tell them, no, just taking food away this time. Have to come to dead dog for more food, after pack-out.) Made ANOTHER trip to the store on the way home. Came home, cooked more scrambled eggs, home-fries, started in on the meats around 10. On the griddle. Finished just before midnight. Dinner took ELEVEN HOURS to cook, and hands-on hours at that.
I ~did~ get a bit of a nap in between midnight and taking food over to the community center around 1. Thank goodness for that.
And then, I think people were being bratty about traveling over to the community center for dead dog, because there was only like 25 or 30ish people. Paul said they were being hopeless at loading the truck too. I guess this happens every year. Only last year, the useless people at least sat around and watched the functional people load the truck at the civic center. Since the con was at the hotel proper this year, the useless people just went to bed and the hard worker people loaded.
So people showed up around 3, people ate, but left lots of leftovers. I gave up and packed out around 5am, but the talking was still going strong.
So now I am done with cooking for con, but still with an enormous amount of food in my house. I froze 8 qts of curry yesterday. On the second grocery trip, bought 6 big ziplock freezer containers (9.5 cups, it says on the side), and filled 5 of them with gumbo. It is in the fridge because I haven't yet attempted to freezer tetris it into the deep freeze. I was bewildered and unhappy with all the leftover breakfast-type foods, but then I brainstormed to convert the leftover sausage/eggs/potatoes into breakfast burritos. Made 6 with our tortillas on hand, need to go buy more tortillas. French toast was made into a stack of pb&j for Paul to take to the truck-unloading party, but that got delayed til 7 tonight. And that was still only like half the french toasts. Some of the ones that didn't get pb&j'd are in ok shape just torn up, others were on the outside edge and kinda got overcooked by being right up against the walls of the turkey roaster.
I didn't do nearly as much baking as I'd hoped over the course of con, so we still have 3 gal of milk and many quarts of yogurt. Did use pretty much all the eggs though. And bananas! I had no idea how many bananas to buy. I think I ended up with 40-50. The folks at dead dog did a very good job on them, ate at least half. But Paul and I need to eat bananas like crazy the next two days. And then I'll freeze whatever is left.
The good news is one of my most FAVORITE breakfast foods is mashed banana with plain yogurt. I am positive someone must have fed it to me in my impressionable years, but my mom swears it wasn't her. Now I can have LOTS of mashed banana with plain yogurt! So not so worried about the yogurt getting eaten.
Basically, we have food for the next couple weeks. But, to me, the leftovers and not having to cook are some of my reward for doing all this work. because it was a TON of work, even if the people who actually "worked" con don't see it. I don't think I "worked" con any less than someone who was actually at con. I did nothing for 3 days besides cook and sleep. And I know they like to be machoist about not sleeping at con, but sleeping is a VERY HIGH PRIORITY for me, whether at con or at home. So I did sleep, even if I did nothing but sleep and cook.
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