Day 29 - November 2, 2009

Day 29:

Today I was in charge of taco salad. After last weeks flank steak fiasco, Rex tried really hard to keep me stress free. It was awesome. I got there and Rex had already assigned everything I had to get done out to all the high school kids and left me to supervise. Once all the kids left, all I had left to do was make the taco meat. It was all browned and ready for me to season it up. We also got a new kid in our class today, Paul. Paul spent the day chopped all my veggies for my taco salad. We were all set and ready to go for the line and for a lunch we were catering and we had everything set up buffet style for the lunch. The group rolled in about 10-15 minutes late and had 7 extra people! We hadn't prepared for so many people and ended up having to cook 5 extra pounds of meat and chop more veggies. What a pain. But even after all of that, it turned out good and everyone seemed to like it.

At the end of the day I asked Rex if there was anything he needed help with and he asked me if I wanted to make shrimp scampi the next day for a really important lunch we were serving. The president of all the applied technology colleges in Utah or Northern Utah or something like that was having a meeting and we were serving him lunch. I told him I would help. It seemed like he was nervous and wasn't very anxious to let anyone help with the lunch so I thought it was pretty cool he decided to let me participate. After he asked me that, I asked him what we were serving and he said a surf and turf. We were serving steaks with giant shrimp scampi. I asked him who was cooking the steaks and at that point he assigned the entire meal to me! I'm glad he trusts me enough to cook and prepare such an important lunch.