So after a hectic breakfast short a line cook while I was preparing my weekly Sunday Brunch Buffet I headed back to the office I share with my Executive Chef and took a seat while my very hung-over Sales and Marketing Manager ate. He is a great guy with all sorts of hotel and resort experience. Our paths have crossed in the past so it is neat to be working together nearly two decades later.
Well, anyway, he starts telling me about the stuff he has planned for the place and a couple of upcoming meetings he has. He is thrilled I have been invited back to the Iowa Pork Producers Taste of Elegance Competition and threw me a curve ball telling me about the Iowa Department of Natural Resources' magazine and how they are coming and doing an article and photo shoot with my Chef and I about local fresh water fish and the cooking there of in a high-end hotel kitchen. Not everyday I am told I am going to be making an original recipe for a fish for a magazine. It seems my Chef and I will both be doing a recipe or two and featured in the article and photo shoot. He meets on Monday with the Iowa Chops AHL minor league hockey affiliate of the Anaheim Ducks NHL team to finalize us being the "Official Something-or-nother Hotel" of the Chops and me being the "official team Chef" working with the team strength, conditioning and dietary staff. Get free tickets to the games as well! That makes it worth it to me alone!
After that meeting and a great 40 minute phone call with my Chef this afternoon on the way home from work it seems like it was a good day! Now if we get approved for our new house Monday or Tuesday it will be a great week (even if I am scheduled to work 12 hours on Thanksgiving and will have only the Monday and Tuesdays before and after the Holidays off)!!! Fingers crossed!!!
Well, anyway, he starts telling me about the stuff he has planned for the place and a couple of upcoming meetings he has. He is thrilled I have been invited back to the Iowa Pork Producers Taste of Elegance Competition and threw me a curve ball telling me about the Iowa Department of Natural Resources' magazine and how they are coming and doing an article and photo shoot with my Chef and I about local fresh water fish and the cooking there of in a high-end hotel kitchen. Not everyday I am told I am going to be making an original recipe for a fish for a magazine. It seems my Chef and I will both be doing a recipe or two and featured in the article and photo shoot. He meets on Monday with the Iowa Chops AHL minor league hockey affiliate of the Anaheim Ducks NHL team to finalize us being the "Official Something-or-nother Hotel" of the Chops and me being the "official team Chef" working with the team strength, conditioning and dietary staff. Get free tickets to the games as well! That makes it worth it to me alone!
After that meeting and a great 40 minute phone call with my Chef this afternoon on the way home from work it seems like it was a good day! Now if we get approved for our new house Monday or Tuesday it will be a great week (even if I am scheduled to work 12 hours on Thanksgiving and will have only the Monday and Tuesdays before and after the Holidays off)!!! Fingers crossed!!!
"Ponder well on this point: the pleasant hours of our life are all connected, by a more or less tangible link, with some memory of the table."-Charles Pierre Monselet, French author(1825-1888)