Tuesday, December 21, 2010

CPC Dinners 2010 or What to do with 30lbs of Cream Cheese

 

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Most years, I do the desserts for the employee Christmas dinner.  It is always a challenge to cook for so many.  It is also fun in a stressful,self abusing kind of way.  I do large scale cooking just enough to know I never want a job in this area.  There is always some new twist such as J throwing a cake down the basement stairs, or complete icing disasters. This was the first year weather caused problems and made what is usually 2 days of chaos into 4 plus unplanned “elves” home from school.  I thought this year I would try to put in pictures what 30 lbs of cream cheese, 6 dozen eggs, a few gallons of whipping cream and 15 pounds of sugar can do to your kitchen.

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Big cooking needs big bowls.

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We did 16 cheesecakes.  Brian and Had both helped.

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And then we killed the kitchen aid mixer.  That is oil dripping from the motor.  My 15 year old Sunbeam that gets used at least 3 x per week kept right on going.

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Of course paying attention to food means L was on her own.  She used her time to go through the recycling.  As B says to L, “You cardboard shredder, you!”

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