Between A Rock and a Hard Boiled Egg Place

Well, I am sorry that I don't post everyday- -- but sometimes I feel that the day to day is pretty dull.

But, I do have a few things to say about the past few days. I have been working in the conference center, which is mostly Sea Pines catering, this is something I"m really enjoying here, it takes a lot of Garde Manger work. Garde Manger was a subject in school that I loved, so this is cool.

The catering kitchen at Sea Pines does a TON of events all over the resort. The other morning Kaitlyn and I were left to make up the continental breakfast that was scheduled for one of the mornings. The thing about catering is that you have to make giant batches, normally one might make about 6 hard boiled eggs at a time. Oh no, we had to make 4 DOZEN eggs. So our chef told us to steam them in the combination oven. Steam for 5 minutes, allow to sit for 10 minutes in the oven. Okay. Did that. THen, we tried to peel them... nope, not done. So back into the steamer. Tried to peel, nope. We kew that we had 4 dozen eggs and that's a LOT of eggs. We were stuck between a rock and a hard boiled egg place. We didn't want to waste the eggs but we didn't want to serve weird eggs. So we got them boiled ENOUGH. Well, not boiled enough for the South folks. They do not want a soft boiled egg, trust me.

Coming in the next day, we were terrified that the chefs were going to yell at us about But luckily, they saw that we had tried and tried and tried. While they were not pleased, they realized that we spent over an hour on these eggs, which should have only taken a half hour TOPS.

Beyond the eggs, we did a fun event last night. Its so interesting to see the way to pull off all these giant events. I made 420 rolls yesterday. 420!!!!!! That's SO many, can I get an 'Amen' ? Its so fun to see and be involved in this production. Its unreal to watch this food go out. Each canapé looking exactly the same, every tray looking beautiful and put together. There is a way to do everything, there is a place for each individual bite.

Today, another day, a different drama.

Oh- and I joined a gym in Hilton Head so I can go there a few days a week, and continue Savannah a few days a week.

Let's do this people.