I couldnt imagine family cooking for the holidays plus cooking for work commitments.
jglass wrote:Kevin I bet your friends missed you at the party to.
Cathy if I didnt have to cook for 13-14 and then pack it all up and haul it to another location I would want more holidays lol. Shlepping all that up and down the stairs here to my car in winter takes alot of the fun out of it for me. I have to reheat it when I get it there and no one in Jons family has the ability to get there on time.
Cathy if I didnt have to cook for 13-14 and then pack it all up and haul it to another location I would want more holidays lol. Shlepping all that up and down the stairs here to my car in winter takes alot of the fun out of it for me. I have to reheat it when I get it there and no one in Jons family has the ability to get there on time.
:(Bummer!!!
That is why I wanted to do ham for Christmas. It is good at room temp.
Alot of the stuff I made for the Italian dinner got cold and wasnt as good. It would be fine if my FIL would go ahead and eat while its hot but he always wants to give the others 30-45 min to get there past when they were supposed to be there. I kept telling Jon to eat last time and he kept saying he was gonna wait on his Dad. I finally got aggervated and said loud enough for Dad to hear that none of it was gonna be worth a dang because it was already freakin cold! Then his Dad was ready to eat. Fresh baked bread sticks and garlic pull aparts were not nearly as good as they were when they were hot from the oven. Not to mention everything else that got cold.
If I had to cook for them often I strangle Jons brothers family for being so late. They think it is funny they can never get anywhere on time. I think it is inconsiderate. 10 min late is ok...45 min late is crazy.
Alot of the stuff I made for the Italian dinner got cold and wasnt as good. It would be fine if my FIL would go ahead and eat while its hot but he always wants to give the others 30-45 min to get there past when they were supposed to be there. I kept telling Jon to eat last time and he kept saying he was gonna wait on his Dad. I finally got aggervated and said loud enough for Dad to hear that none of it was gonna be worth a dang because it was already freakin cold! Then his Dad was ready to eat. Fresh baked bread sticks and garlic pull aparts were not nearly as good as they were when they were hot from the oven. Not to mention everything else that got cold.
If I had to cook for them often I strangle Jons brothers family for being so late. They think it is funny they can never get anywhere on time. I think it is inconsiderate. 10 min late is ok...45 min late is crazy.
jglass wrote:They think it is funny they can never get anywhere on time. I think it is inconsiderate. 10 min late is ok...45 min late is crazy.
Oh... but Jaine haven't you ever heard the politically correct thing is to be Fashionably Late:D I would like to know who the heck started that stinkin' term, I like you believe in promptness for many reasons, but especially when it comes to food being BEST when served Hot Straight from the oven!!! I really dislike cold food, especially french fries!! I hate to say it but they are some kind of in-laws!!!:o
RE: "you should have seen the fuss that was raised by people at work"
jfain, I can identify! Here's my experience...
In the near year that I have been at my new job, my department has hade a dozen different food days. They're always great, in that everyone participates- and lotsa fun food is brought-in, BUT the one drawback for ME has been this: Since I am a neat-freak and since I have lots of commercial cooking experience, these work events have always ended up being events I feel I am working- rather than events I feel I am a guest at.
I'm the one in our goup of 20-30 who wipes up messes, checks sterno, empties trash, stirs foods and refreshes it, checks stock of paper plates, cups, plastic forks, etc. and I am the only one who seems willing to clean-up the MESS afterwards.
SO... this past year at both Thanksgiving and Christmas, I contributed food- brought in my share of goodies, BUT, since I work nights, I did not return during the day (which are my sleeping hours, mind you) to take part in the actual party.
I heard thru the grapevine that a few were talking smack about me not attending and taking part. One 1st shift co-worker who I share an over-lap hour with each morning as I am departing and he is arriving actually said right to my face: "Your desserts and cheeseball were delicious- but we missed you... it's hell to have to get up and dredsed-up in the middle of the night and report-in to work, but the team approach would have been to suck it up and just do it."
My response? "Don't talk to me about the 'team' approach, dude. It don't get much more 'TEAM' than making food and hauling it in for others- to an event that you know you yourself ain't even gonna be at!"
That kinda quieted his azz down a bit and brought out a smile of agreement from others as well- Ha!
jfain, I can identify! Here's my experience...
In the near year that I have been at my new job, my department has hade a dozen different food days. They're always great, in that everyone participates- and lotsa fun food is brought-in, BUT the one drawback for ME has been this: Since I am a neat-freak and since I have lots of commercial cooking experience, these work events have always ended up being events I feel I am working- rather than events I feel I am a guest at.
I'm the one in our goup of 20-30 who wipes up messes, checks sterno, empties trash, stirs foods and refreshes it, checks stock of paper plates, cups, plastic forks, etc. and I am the only one who seems willing to clean-up the MESS afterwards.
SO... this past year at both Thanksgiving and Christmas, I contributed food- brought in my share of goodies, BUT, since I work nights, I did not return during the day (which are my sleeping hours, mind you) to take part in the actual party.
I heard thru the grapevine that a few were talking smack about me not attending and taking part. One 1st shift co-worker who I share an over-lap hour with each morning as I am departing and he is arriving actually said right to my face: "Your desserts and cheeseball were delicious- but we missed you... it's hell to have to get up and dredsed-up in the middle of the night and report-in to work, but the team approach would have been to suck it up and just do it."
My response? "Don't talk to me about the 'team' approach, dude. It don't get much more 'TEAM' than making food and hauling it in for others- to an event that you know you yourself ain't even gonna be at!"
That kinda quieted his azz down a bit and brought out a smile of agreement from others as well- Ha!