Another funny day at the place I call work!!

Sometimes i am amazed at how gullable the new young culinarians are these days. It just makes me chuckle. Here let me give you background before i go into full detail. Fact
#1: My Boss Executive Chef L. was talking to a new Hire, he is fresh out of culinary school. #2 My boss could just about pull the wool over anyone's eyes. This is what happened:


Boss: "I've decided to give the cooks blunt knives -- they might hurt
themselves with sharp ones."
Cook: "But it will take us longer to cut all the vegetables."
Boss: "We'll just hire more cooks. And more middle managers, and chef team
leads, and Sous chefs.. And I'm writing a whole book
about How To Cut With Dull Knives. Besides, culinary schools don't bother
teaching people how to use sharp ones."
Cook: "We can teach them . . ."
Boss: "Not in time for our infeasible internal deadline for this meal!"

Ok..duh how can you fall for this one..I don't know if the new hire is just young..or stupid. He was ready to argue with the boss over this issue. Then all of a sudden my boss starts to crack up and turn a little red. He said He didn't think he would fall for it, He was just trying to get the new kid to feel a little for comfortable, And not act so serious. Because there is a time and a place for that..not in a kitchen, except when we get down to crunch time right before we serve a meal.

Pretty funny!!

Tip of today:

What Foods to Keep On Hand at All Times at Home

Life can get pretty busy and sometimes it is just so much easier to stop off at McDonald's or order a pizza for dinner. Now if your kitchen is always stocked with healthy and easy to prepare foods, you won't have to compromise your eating style because of time. The foods suggested below should provide you with several options of quick meals you could make.
Fill the cupboards with low-fat crackers( such as saltines), cans of kidney or garbanzo beans, fruits canned in their own juices, canned clams, and tuna packed in water(don't go over board with the tuna). If that's not enough, how about granola bars, low-fat spaghetti sauce(or make a big pot of sauce and freeze it in small containers), and pasta(try the whole wheat variety it's very good, we eat it 95% of the time)?

Fill the crisper with fresh fruits and vegetables and the freezer with frozen plain vegetables, fruit juice, and frozen yogurt. (have you ever had frozen grapes? athey are tasty too...