A Day in the Life Head Cook

There is this confusing thing that goes on here. On a normal morning 1st float mops the dining room, kitchen and bathroom floors. If there is one girl off in the morning, then second float does it and if there are 2 off then the kitchen girls do it. So if you happen to be head Cook on Alb Week* like I was, then you will probably be mopping almost every day.

I have this problem where I like to make fancy food. So this week was quite busy for me. Thankfully I had food in the freezer from my nights week, and I had help sometimes. Otherwise IDK if we ever would have eaten on time. Another kind of stressful thing was that the Alb unit was here on Saturday and Sunday. But the guys did all my wiping chairs with Clorox wipes and sweeping so that part wasn’t stressful.

Most Saturday mornings the kitchen girls go to Market with 1st Nurs Teacher. (Market is 2 long rows of stalls in the hot heat and sandy sand where they sell jewelry, blankets, pottery, food, trash, and whatnot all.) This Saturday Papa’s were gone so I had to monitor a visit besides making company lunch, so I didn’t go. And when Papa left I must have looked like the most convenient person around, so he got me to be the foreman on the job the Alb guys were supposed to do. Busy morning it was. But then in the evening we got to play ball and do other crazy stuff (double down the hill on the wiggle cars anyone?).

So what head cook does is: get some sort of protein or grain on the table for breakfast, and then protein and grain for lunch and supper. And make sure to do one whole grain a day. We get refunded for 3 meals a day, so everything has to be documented meticulously. Then there are a bunch of weekly jobs to do. I was not bored. Bored of being in the kitchen yes but not bored as in not knowing what to do.

*Alb week ~the week one girls leaves and another comes. It happens on one day, and 3 girls and Papas are gone all day, which makes home crazy for the day. So we order pizza for supper. Actually it makes the whole week crazy.

BTW my cook week was 6/25/19 - 7/01/19