Cooking En Mass

Google and Amazon have both failed me. I searched for "Cooking en mass" "Mass Production Cooking" and "cooking for 30 people".

One would think, we are are not the first people to do this. An entire cookbook should be devoted to this subject.

Cook for Large Groups on a 4-Burner Stove
Thirty Hungry People
It All Has to be Hot
Do Not Pull Your Hair Out (Near the Food)

These are just a few titles that I am playing with.

I wish I could really explain to you how I lay in bed at night literally choreographing these meals.  How does one produce 5 boxes of hot angel hair pasta at once?

Three attempts at Lemon-Garlic Butter and I still have not found that perfect balance between savory and sour... though any recipe that starts with twelve STICKS of butter can't be that bad, right?

I'm refreshing on my math. 3/4 cup serves 4 people, we need to serve thirty... umm, God I hate fractions.

So here is the menu as it stands:

Friday

Tossed Salad with various dressings

Angel-hair pasta with a lemon-butter garlic sauce, topped with Kirstin's own recipe for sweetened meatballs, and colorful veggies.

Ricotta cheese cake with pears

Saturday

Tossed Salad with various dressing

Stuffed-Baked Chicken with Orange-Scented Jasmine Rice and Green Bean Almandine.

Mocha Java Icecream  Bombe covered in Hot Fudge

So if you see Katie and I in the kitchen this week, we may look like we are preparing the food for the Marginal Lit-Fest, but in reality we are researching for the cookbook we intend to write.

Biting Off More Than You Can Chew

KMK

Comments

[Kate]

Oh Kirstin, this is hilarious!

[Katie Rivara]

I have a good title:

Ovens Are For Chicken, Not Your Head
similarly,
Knives Are For Slicing Food, Not Throats

Haha, good post. We'll get through it though. It will be awesome.