Title: Shot down big time
Category: disappointed
Blog Entry: I have been cooking a lot at the legion. Two weeks ago I took a few days off and took over for the cook. I had free range with my menu so I tried something a little more out there than their usual fare. Wed. I had Sloppy Toms, sloppy joes made with turkey, french fried sweet potatoes, home made cole slaw, not out of a box, and pudding supprise, chocolate pudding with vanilla inside. That went pretty well, about $200 at $5.00 a plate. Then on Thursday I made hugh ham steaks, with the bone in, an orange and lime caramel glaze, home made scalopped potatoes, green beans with bacon and ginger and a giant cookie with fresh whipped cream and marachino cherry. My suse made an absolutly fabulous drizzle for the cookie with the marrichino juice. That dinner sold out big time. I had 46 ham steaks and before it was over I had to cut slabs off a buffet ham to take care of the overflow. That one was $6.00 a plate. Then on Friday it all came crashing down around my ears. I made Po' Mans Fillet, a slow roasted 8 oz piece of pot roast wrapped in ham and croissant dough, baked again and served with sauteed mushroom caps, grilled leeks with garlic infused extra virgin olive oil and home made kluski noodles cooked in the au juice from the roasts. For dessert we had my grannies apples and dumplins made with granny smith apples, brown sugar, molassas, pancake syrup and cinnamon and drop biscuits on top like chicken and dumplins. I had 56 of the fillets and sold 13 at $6.00 each. We still made $250 but almost all of it was bar menu deep fried stuff like mushrooms, chicken tenders and cheese sticks and hamburgers. To say the least I was a little dissapointed but we broke down the beef and saved it for beef and noodles on the next Thursday. How ignominious. On the other hand every one of the 13 that tried the dinner just loved it, including the leeks. I guess it is something.
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