She keeps asking me if I can handle it. Honestly, this is a walk in the park compared to wedding season at the Cake Box. I really miss the stress, and hope that things pick up here soon enough. Sure we get a full day of work, but I want deadlines, and hoops I need to jump through.
This is a cart full of all the fruit needed for today. That is 12 cantaloupe, 12 pineapples, 12 honeydew and 3 watermelon, because that's all that were in storage. As well as 2 flats of strawberries, 2 flats of blueberries and a flat of blackberries.
This took me til lunch time to complete, but I was impressed with how much quicker I am getting at slicing up fruit.
During the morning, one of the girls from Starbucks came downstairs with some samples of Mocha Coconut Frappuccino. Best thing I have ever tasted, I went and bought one on my break. Honestly, if you love the taste of toasted coconut, go buy one now.
This seemed to end the morning trend of gloominess, our Banquet Chef was in a bad mood this morning (everyone was saying it was due to his low blood sugar levels), and it quickly became contagious.
The rest of the day was broken down into smaller tasks. I had 3 smoked salmon plates to do, Club Lounge was already done, so I didn't have to cut up any more fruit, but I did have to do up a skewer tray for them, which is cherry tomatoes wrapped in thinly sliced salami. I learned how to do a cereal station today which is just setting up a bowl of raisins, granola and banana chips, for guests to sprinkle over their cereal, if desired.
Today I made croutons. They were so good, loved them couldn't stop munching on them while I was putting them away. (And I noticed staff that passed by grabbed one as well.) I was very impressed with myself. First time I ever made them! Also made baguette sticks, and french bread rounds with the same herb blend as the croutons.
Worked some over time today, was supposed to go to pastry department for a bit, but we were still behind in Garde Manger, so Dylan went over instead of me. I was looking forward to learning a bit about a new department, so I was a bit disappointed.
Today I tried: Beef Bacon, honestly it wasn't that bad, almost prefer it over regular pork bacon. It was heavier, but still very salted. Apparently it was a leaner choice to pork.
Cucumber sandwiches with pickle juice cream cheese.
Here's to hoping tomorrow contains some entertaining stress!
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