Its quiet, but I’m not home in my cool room. Instead I am in a lodge kitchen where I spent the weekend with friends and cooking holiday meals.
It’s funny, I’ve had a Crazy few months with the last 2 weeks of working 50 to 60 hours and looked forward to getting away from every little problem that popped up. Little did I know the challenges that were waiting for me.
I was to the point on Friday, that I had had enough. I didn’t think I could handle anything else thrown at me.
The weekend meant I would do what I loved to do, command a kitchen and cook for people that enjoyed a good meal. Menu planning, shopping, having a sous chef that is a bestie made it the perfect de-stress opportunity.
Or so I thought.
I’ve heard that a woman is like a tea bag, you never know how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
Well, call me Lipton, because my hot water was waiting for me Saturday morning.
The refrigerator unit at the lodge decided to grow up and be a freezer. A wishy washy one at that. The laws of nature were broken every way possible.
Random things were frozen. Some things were side by side on a shelf, one hard as a rock the other just cold.
All the proteins were frozen. Turkeys, pork loins, oh and the deviled eggs, about 4 dozen of them we made the night before.
Talk about chaos!
So many things were not going as planned. But I wont go into detail, this would be pages long. Lol.
Yeah, I can laugh now.
40 hungry people and I needed to cook brunch first and figure a way to salvage dinner.
All the frozen meat went in the sink with cold water. The pork loins defrosted in time but the Turkey, rock solid ice on the center holding the neck captive.
Thanks to team work a few friends came to the rescue. One freed the gravy making neck, the other, well, did you know you can INSTAPOT a frozen turkey in 90 minutes?
The weekend was actually a blessing for me.
Once again I was reminded that I can do anything with the help of prayer and friends.
Lesson learned, you can do anything, defeat any challenge, knock down any road block with help.
You never have to face the world alone.
So thank you my friends, old and new for making my weekend so eye opening.
Lorene
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