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Cooking in the Camp Kitchen Day 1 ~ The “Players”

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Before we get down to business in this series on Cooking for a Crowd, I need to make sure you’re up to speed on a little history.  First of all, it may help for you to understand that I live and work at a camp on an island off Vancouver Island, BC Canada.

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If you want to check it out in detail, it’s Camp Homewood, and its website is here.  I’m completely and unashamedly biased, but it is an amazing camp, and you might want to come join us here sometime.Smile  (Shameless plugs are thrown in for free!!)

Although our camp’s main and busiest season is summertime, we have guests at the facility year round.  Many of the groups in Fall are school groups (the bands and choirs give us great background music!), quilters, church rental groups, and family reunions.  The sizes of the groups we’re cooking for range from 40 – 150 people.

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My husband and I have lived here for 23 years, and he is currently the director.

Our previous camp cook left the end of August to pursue other exciting adventures, and until we can find another person to take his place, I’m filling in as one of the camp cooks.

Do you have it all figured out now?

I’ve shown you the picture of part of the kitchen I’ll be cooking in, and described it a bit here.

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Now I need to introduce the other players in this camp kitchen scenario.

This is our Homewood staff.

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Every single one of them has helped me in some way in the kitchen.  (well…perhaps not the children!Winking smile) The maintenance men worked like crazy to get the kitchen painted for me before the groups started to arrive again.  (Not pictured is Tim…Thank you for painting, Tim!)  They also help in a multitude of ways when I need help lifting heavy things or figuring out how best to clean cast iron stove tops, etc…  The ladies have helped me clean and prep the kitchen and also are amazing at offering kind words of encouragement.  I just love them all.

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These young-looking whipper-snappers are our Winter Interns, which we lovingly refer to as “Winterns”.  One by one they will each have a turn being my kitchen assistant, and I love that part.  They have such amazing youthful energy and enthusiasm, and such great attitudes of servant hood.  I’ve already learned from them…

And, without their youthful, energetic muscles, I would be in major trouble!!Smile

Another key player in the kitchen is this beautiful lady.

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Connie.

Without her…

Well, I just don’t know what I’d do!!

Connie has taken two levels of Culinary Arts training, and has patiently been teaching me the ins and outs of this job.  She is actually the brains behind this whole operation.  She does menu planning, ordering, and heads up the homemade bread baking.  She also has another job 3 days a week, and we are beyond grateful that she has given some of her precious time to work so tirelessly for us here.

I also need to give credit to the other most important players in my personal world.

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My family.

And my husband in particular.

He is my biggest cheerleader in this journey.  And right now, he is also the doer of the laundry, washer of the dishes, and completer of nearly everything else that actually happens in our home.

It’s also a very awkward spot for him to be in…

and me, too, for that matter.

Being my boss…and my husband…

Oh, dear.  I don’t recommend that scenario to anyone!

But, for this season, we’re giving it a whirl.

(Click HERE for a list of each day’s post of the month-long series.)

 

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One Comment

  1. The roles are reversed!! Usually you are the boss….tho by the sounds of it you still are…..he is doing the laundry!haha

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