Harvest Festival
I am not sure how it happened, but the CIH managed to get himself volunteered to arrange the Harvest Lunch.
This should have been a straight forward process but there was some confusion as to whether this was a 'buy a ticket' event or a 'bring and share' lunch. It turns out that some people dislike bring and share lunches with a passion so the CIH opted for the buy a ticket event and then discovered that most of the people in the church who usually arrange the catering on this type of occasion were not going to be around for Harvest. This led to a mad couple of weeks while the CIH prepared to provide a three course meal for sixty people in the parish hall where you cannot switch the cooker on or it trips out all the electricity in the building. Great.
Offers of fruit crumble were readily accepted which left the CIH to cook 16 pints of carrot & orange soup, 16 pints of potato & leek soup, huge quantities of chilli, bolognaise & chicken casserole. This was served with jacket potatoes, a green salad and a glass of wine. The crumble was served with custard and/or ice cream. Tea & coffee followed with a chocolate mint.
This did create a rather busy week for the CIH but it all paid off in the end. Sixty happy people served by eight polite young people.
The CIH is now determined to push through the modernisation of the kitchen before he has to try and do the same thing again. Thank heavens for slow cookers.
This should have been a straight forward process but there was some confusion as to whether this was a 'buy a ticket' event or a 'bring and share' lunch. It turns out that some people dislike bring and share lunches with a passion so the CIH opted for the buy a ticket event and then discovered that most of the people in the church who usually arrange the catering on this type of occasion were not going to be around for Harvest. This led to a mad couple of weeks while the CIH prepared to provide a three course meal for sixty people in the parish hall where you cannot switch the cooker on or it trips out all the electricity in the building. Great.
Offers of fruit crumble were readily accepted which left the CIH to cook 16 pints of carrot & orange soup, 16 pints of potato & leek soup, huge quantities of chilli, bolognaise & chicken casserole. This was served with jacket potatoes, a green salad and a glass of wine. The crumble was served with custard and/or ice cream. Tea & coffee followed with a chocolate mint.
This did create a rather busy week for the CIH but it all paid off in the end. Sixty happy people served by eight polite young people.
The CIH is now determined to push through the modernisation of the kitchen before he has to try and do the same thing again. Thank heavens for slow cookers.
posted by Col. @ 6:35 PM
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