Kitchen Olympics

Thanks everyone for the classy suggestions for the Chalet Menu--keep 'em comin'
Last night I made some almost-tasty-but-runny sweet & sour chicken. I was asked several times to replace SOMETHING on the menu with it. Mostly I heard that turkey rolls needed to be replaced. I guess they already assumed that the lamb would never be served again. I suppose when people come up to the kitchen hatch and ask "What Kind of meat is this?" That's a good sign that dinner wasn't quite successful.

Today is Kitchen Deep Clean Day. I should have some help from the summer vols, and since there are no visitors to speak of these days, we'll crank the Abba and rock out to de-greasing.
I'm also in the pre-planning stages for a mid-summer kitchen olympics. So far I've decided that there will be timed as well as team events. First we will time individual speed at cleaning the industrial dishwasher at night. I haven't decided what the qualifying time needs to be, or how points will be awarded. After that I think we'll have some team relays such as: scrubbing and squeegee-ing the floor, taking out the compost, rotating stock in the food cellar. Exciting events like that. We'll also need some more skilled events--like rhythmic tupperware-lid-matching--where you also get points for style.

Again, I'm open for suggestions.

I had breakfast with two Sweedes this morning and this is what they were eating on toast: caviar. I'm open to new things and I tried it. I'd rather just eat a whole smoked fish on a piece of bread.

And finally, because I actually also miss my pets (even though I steadfastly refuse to acknowledge any sort of ownership to THESE animals), here's a Kricket and Ellis Chaser for the day.