09.25.06: Cooking Shift

This week I decided to get more cooking and preparing involved in the cooking shift. For the last week or so we were depending too much on already prepared food. Like Ron at the McKenna Center said, I don't just want to complete a puzzle, I want to make the pieces as well. Since we have the time and the volunteers, we might as well make something!

Yesterday, we used the time during our shift to make ham sandwhiches for the child-friendly location. We had some already prepared sandwhiches from one of our donors, but decided to save those for Thursday and use the large donation of sliced ham we had. In addition to the ham, we cut up some lettuce and sliced some tomatoes to make them look delicious. We complemented the sandwhiches with fresh fruit and green beans to finalize the meal.

Mmmm... ham.
For the other locations, we used our time and resources to make a big salad. We had a lot of lettuce, cabbage, olives, cucumbers, carrots, crutons and pieces of chicken, so there was a lot to work with. This type of activity is really fun and easy for the volunteers to work on themselves.

You can make friends with salad.
All in all, it's a lot more fun for me and the volunteers when there is stuff to make. I'm definitely going to get more cooking (even if it's just making salads and sandwhiches) involved in all of the cooking shifts.