I have driven past this restaurant so many times and finally stopped in for lunch one day last week. What a treat!!! Great Mexican food, decor and music. Only problem was that the wait staff didn't want to play the speaking Spanish game or maybe our Spanish was so awful it wasn't worth answering!!! Something like our French......
Fun art outside, a metal mariachi band that played so softly you couldn't hear it. Very nonMexican!!!
I'm sure that when all of us volunteer we don't expect rewards. We just like doing it so what a surprise I got the other day when I received this lovely gray swag bag full of goodies from the group that got me involved at The Brevard Community Kitchen. A very nice little perk.
Our neighbour at the end of our floor shared these delicious treats with us. Wraps containing walnuts, cranberries and bananas. Very healthy and yet delicious!!!
It isn't very often we see a sky like this. I was hoping for lightning to be hitting the water but that didn't happen.
Tuesday was my last day at The Kitchen and I wanted to give you one more looking into my volunteer world. So strange that this was actually the same meal that was being cooked on my first day there. To me it was the enormity of everything that surprised me initially.
This is where the vegetables are usually cooked. Vats of vegetables!!!
These large vats contain the beans and ham mixture boiling away. The hose is for clean up. Everything in the kitchen is stainless steal. First all of the counters get wiped off and then the floor which is covered in food is hosed off. Boiling water often gets dumped down these grates or excess food. I just realized I forgot to take pictures of the huge baking ovens. I'll do that in November when I return.
The ladle/spoonish thing in this pot has to be at least 4 feet long.
And here is the line which runs from 9:30 to 10:30ish. During that time approximately 2000 Meals on Wheels are packed up and also meals for schools in the area. The job I did most was the third from the left person, putting the full trays onto the conveyor belt to be sealed in plastic wrap. This working on the line is my least happy place to be. Fast and Furious!!!!
So, on occasion, I can get involved with other jobs before the line starts and thus getting out of the line. Took me awhile to catch on to this but once I did........... Last Tuesday melons were my baby. Four cases of melons. Honey Dew and cantalopes. Two cases of each.
First, everything is always washed for reasons you really don't want to know. Believe me!!!!
After I had cut the melons in half and gutted them I then put them through this machine that took all of the peel off. Ok, not all of the peel but lots of it. There was a substantial amount of meat left on the shells that a hungry person would have been happy to receive!!! I then finished cleaning off the rind with a machete, sort of.
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The finished product. Someone else cut them all up into little pieces because I got another job. My favourite job at The Kitchen.......
My melons were combined with pineapple and mandarins into 5 bins like the one you can see here and them put into these little cups. I actually did this first tray.
This was my favourite place to work. Assisting the catering chef. Great guy and a delight to work for. I filled this tray with first these orangey wraps and alternated them with green wraps. Great fun!!!
Launch lookers yesterday.
This rocket was quite a long way away. I think it is our 5th or 6th launch and I don't need to see another one. Seen one, seen them all!!!!
Rocket fluff is always pretty. Probably the best part............ Off into who knows where and that is probably a good place to end this years story. We leave on Tuesday for the trek home. We plan to return to Titusville at the end of October. We've rented a house with a huge backyard for the Max. He will get to join us next trip here as we are planning on staying for 5 months. I plan on going to San Blas for the month of January 2016 and would like someone interested in a great adventure to join me. Should that be you please let me know. Thanks for coming along this winter. It's been a blast!!!!!!
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