Cookie and Fudge

Two weeks ago I had the opportunity to be what we call “Fudge”. It’s a rotating position that is basically the kitchen assistant. Fudge’s main job is to do all of the dishes after each meal. Sounds like the perfect position for me right? :) It was a very fun week and the best part was that I got to work with my roommate Jessica all the time! Our normal cook went to Bolivia so Jessica got trained and took over. She does a great job!

This is a picture of Brittani as Fudge from last week but you can see where I spent most of my time washing dish after dish. :)

Being Fudge was very tiring and A LOT of work. Monday and Tuesday I was so exhausted until my body could catch up with me. Working in the kitchen means you put in long hours. Everyday I was up by 5:00am to help start breakfast and got about 3 hours off in the middle of the day and then stayed at night until about 9:00pm. Ooofta! I was tuckered out by the end of the day!

Still the week was SO much fun and Jessica and I cranked out some great food! She and I planned most things together and then while she concentrated on the kid food I worked on cooking the staff food. Jessica let me have a lot of freedom to try some recipes. It was fun! Here was our menu:

Monday: Peanut Stir Fry- Erika’s recipe

I’ve made this plenty of times for myself, roommates, and family but I have never made it for 30 people before! Yikes! I just kind of went for it and people liked it! :) Success! I survived my first day!

Tuesday: Jamacan style Veggie Turnovers

This was a recipe I had never tried before and I really wasn’t sure how it would go. I mixed the filling and the spices were really strong. It made me nervous that it would be too much for people. I added a little mozzarella to tone it down and they actually turned out to be a huge hit. People loved them! Even one of the teachers ask me for the recipe. :)

Wednesday: St. Patrick’s Day

Cookie and Fudge! :)

Breakfast = green eggs and ham, shamrock biscuits with green gravy

Dinner = orzo with zucchini, garlic and red pepper, leprechaun legs (fried green beans), Irish bread, veggie's with the Brown's dill dip

Jessica and I went all out for St. Patrick’s day. We wore all green to match and paint shamrocks on our faces. We made totally green meals for the staff and even ventured with green gravy at night for the kids. :) Everyone loved it! It was so fun!

This is me making banana bread which tasted great but fell and looked funny. opps!

Thursday: Pizza night- labels genius! Zucchini cup cakes yum!

Thursday is always pizza night and so Jessica and I just had fun with the toppings to make it a must-go pizza night. We tried to use up things in the fridge and turn them into toppings. We came up with a BBQ turkey pizza to use up the turkey and then a Jamaican pizza to use up the extra filling. It was so fun!

It was also my genius idea to actually put labels out next to the pizza so that when they come up they don’t have to continually ask which is which. So simple but yet so smart. :) For desert we usually make desert pizza for staff but instead I asked if I could make my zucchini cupcakes with peanut butter frosting. Everyone loved them! :) When Jessica told me that she was ordering zucchini because they were in season and on sale I got excited. I have so many recipes for zucchini! Last year Terry grew a zucchini that was so big that John and I were able to make two loafs of zucchini bread, zucchini brownies, AND zucchini cupcakes all from the same zucchini. It was crazy. Anyways, the cupcakes were a huge hit and another teacher asked me for that recipe too! :)

Friday: Jessica and I didn’t do anything too fancy for breakfast. Our goal was to get as much packed up and ready to go as we could so we could get out of there as soon as the busses were loaded. We did a pretty good job. We all got out of there the earliest we ever have before. It was so great!

Being Fudge was a lot of work but it was a great break from the field and cabins and it was so much fun to do some cooking and be with Jessica. :) Hopefully I’ll get to do it again sometime before the end of the year!