Wednesday May 25th, 2011
Today I decided to get to the kitchen earlier than usual. As I got to the dinning hall at 7:20, I saw my advisor Mike Koenig and remembered we had dish duty for the day. The kitchen crew were pretty surprised to see me so early in the morning. Anyway, today I got to make my own chicken dish. I looked through my handy Chinese cook book and saw a pretty decent looking dish: Lemon Chicken. As I looked at the preparation method required for this particular recipe, I knew it wouldn't be difficult to pull this dish off. The thing that never ceased to amaze me though, was the amount of ingredients required for making such a simple dish for the entire school. I used around three and a half cups of lemon juice, 13tbs of sugar and a lot of other ingredients with big quantities. For this dish, the preparation time took much longer than the actual cooking time. In the end though it was well worth it. I was shocked by the popularity of the dish. Lunch started at 11:15 today. By 11:30 I've sent four batches of lemon chicken (with broccoli, since we had a lot of it) out to the hot line. I basically had to constantly keep making batches of lemon chicken right after I put a batch out on the line because by the time I finished making that batch, the lemon chicken on the line would have been done already. Although I spent a lot of time preparing, cooking and serving the dish, everyone congratulated me on the fantastic dish.
I left around 12 to go with my woods team buddies for a special trip (surfing at Rye Beach- I think that was the name of it) and our team dinner (seafood at some place). I had an extremely fun time and I am so grateful that Mike let me go instead of making me stay and do dish duty. So thanks a lot Mike!
Tomorrow I think I will be preparing a pasta dish. I think I know just the right dish to prepare...
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