Confessions of a Line Cook: November 2010

Thursday, November 25, 2010

turkey day

happy thanksgiving to my loyal readers.  all six of you.  today i'm eating up at the in-laws, and i've made up sweet potato stuffing and the most ultimate stuffing ever.  as some of you may remember, last year i made bacon cornbread stuffing.  the year before that i made sausage apple cranberry stuffing.  and since everybody loved both of them, i've combined the two recipes into one epic bacon sausage apple cranberry cornbread stuffing.  it's cooking right now and it...smells...amazing.  and i gotta give a big shoutout to my lovely wife, who did all the choppy chop.  she's a good helper, plus seeing her with a chefs knife kinda gets me all hot.  anyway, pics may follow, although with my current rate of blogging, don't count on it.  i can promise you, though, that tonight i'll be eating like a champ.

Saturday, November 20, 2010

just the warrior in me i guess

so this is the first weekend since mid august that i've had brunch off.  due to a few different circumstances, i have to work tonight, but as a result i get tomorrow off.  which is rad, cause i haven't had a day off with the wife in quite some time.

but i digress...i should be sitting here, lazily enjoying my am coffee and espn, digging on the fact i'm not at work, and to be honest...i'm all ansy and wierd about it.  i know my boys are doing just fine without me, and working tonight isn't what's wierd...it's just...i dunno.  that's my crew, and they're running without me.  i keep looking at the clock and saying "well, about now they should be doing this" and "i wonder how busy it is" and i have to force myself to not text someone and check in.

and even though tomorrow will be a welcome break, i'm sure i'll still be all ansy cause i'm not on the line flipping eggs.  sometimes it's hard for me to enjoy extra days off.  i'm too loyal to my crew. 

but not too loyal to make myself some biscuts and gravy and watch empire strikes back!