Cooking dinner...for 90 people!!!

September 13, 2010

This Marriage of the Arts Discipleship Training School has been nothing less then an adventure, whether it was walking through the scary dark forest at night after walking down “Slow Death Hill” or sleeping in boxes, they never disappoint here in Herrnhut. My friends and I all figured it would be an easy and painless task of volunteering for Sunday kitchen duty, and breakfast was actually quite fun and quick. All five of us worked like a professional NFL football team. When two of the kitchen workers asked if we would make dinner so they could play soccer we didn’t think of it as that big of a deal. Hah.

The staff member who was training us for kitchen duty also wanted to play soccer, so he gave us the directions and said make it for 90 people. So us three girls took on the job, in a huge kitchen, and a pantry and fridge that labeled everything in German. It was crazy, we couldn’t find anything, we were making turkey goulah(sp?). What the flip IS turkey gooooolaw? We searched for an hour in the fridge and pantry for the ingredients, and then went to cutting up all the mushrooms and carrots while Rosey cooked the turkey. Somehow we turned the cream sauce into a consistency that resembled cookie dough. We frantically added parmesan to make the goop taste appetizing. The recipe was totally changed, but finally we got the food out.

Nervously, I walked proudly out in my cooking smock and ate my food. It was surprisingly delicious, and everyone loved it! Success! Thank JESUS we didn’t waste tons of food! Alyssa, Rosey, and I were one bombin cookin’ crew!