A cook and a sailor

This Wednesday was really something out of the ordinary. If I had expected a normal workday with sitting on my desk and communicating with my customers, I was proven wrong. Tuesday night, a colleague told me that she would not be able to do her "kitchen internship" on the next day, because she is ill. As I had been on the waiting list, I would spend half day in the kitchen. And it was going to be a great time.

After breakfast I joined our Italian-Polish-Brazilian-Spanish kitchen crew to find out first hand how it is to cook for 1400 employees. Well, in fairness you have to say that there are two restaurants, so usually it is not quite as much. Still I was chopping vegetables for 500 servings of fajitas and cooked rice for 600 people. I was lucky, because it was "Mexican Day" and everybody loves Mexican food. And if any of my co-workers are reading this: If you did not like the fajitas - it was me who seasoned them - so you know why "a little more curcuma" might have been missing.

I have to say that if I were a cook (and I have worked in other kitchens before) I would definitely want to work in this kitchen. Our cooks work from 8 am to 3 pm and they get the weekends of. What is even more important: They don't have to clean up after themselves. This was particularly shocking to me, because as I have got three cooks in my family and also some friends with that profession, I know there is one particular weakness every cook has: Your kitchen will look like a mess after they created some culinary treats. So if you take the responsibility for doing the dishes from them, they will go crazy and use even more pans, pots and cutlery. :)

In the afternoon, we went on a team event: Sailing in Dun Laoghaire with my team. I love team building and it was great fun - apart from the fact that we would have been happy if there had been some more wind.

If only every workday would be like that...