Has the world stop spinning???

I have finally found someone who is over CUPCAKES!!!!!

How can you be over CUPCAKES???? They are the perfect portable food and tidy neat package....
What is wrong with a tasty little treat.....

So to spite them ...I give you :

THE PANCAKE -BACON courtesy of Yummy Cupcakes(who have the best variety of cupcakes):

More Food Porn

my 1/2 eaten English Breakfast @ Duke of Gloucester in Toronto...not shown is my pint(s)..

Four great things....Beef Tenderloin MR,Steamed Asparagus, Popover , and HOLLANDAISE...mmmm

Beef Tenderloin wrapped in BACON

Not exactly food but mmmmmmmm BEER!!!!

Vegetarian Delights(Wild Mushroom Tarte Tatin w/Tomato Coulis and Baby Carrots)

Experimental open Sushi

Chocolate Ravioli

I had a crazy idea that i would make gravloxs during the busiests period of the year ,short staffed. It turned out GREAT!!!!!

See ..........I am wearing my big girl pants...and jacket and headband..

Don't let the door hit ya where the good lord Split ya.

The food service indusrty has one of the highest turn over rates. It can get quite expensive to keep training and etc new staff every few weeks and also very annoying.

Most fast food places expect this and have factored this into their budget. But places like where i work, our turn over rate is only applied to our student workers. The biggest turn over happens within the first few weeks of the semester. Then it tapers and we can pretty much tell who will stay and who wont make it.....they are easy to spot. ..freak outs over more than two orders at a time. It's sad but sometimes kids just can't juggle work and school.

But what we as mangers don't expect is when a long time employee who we are trying to coach and nurture and help expand their skills so they can move up fucks us over and ups and quits.

Now I understand when people feel they have gone as far as they can and feel that the new position they have found is better for them....GO FOR IT. But have a bit of class and backbone.....wait scratch that ,  I mean manners and maturity to give your place of current work more than an hour notice.

This just happen to us after this particular person was getting all my love and help and I was trying to take them under my wing so to speak and they were doing great. Myself and another manager covered for them in a emergency...no questions asked. They got away with a lot of stuff  that in any other place , they would have gotten written up for.
So instead of given us some common courtesy.... they came in and said this is my last day.
To which we say....SEE YA!!!! and don't come back looking for your job cause it won't be here.


Who is teaching people to act like this??? This not the first time I have been at places where people either stop showing up( my favorite was I had a employee who never showed up for his shift one day and when I called him he told me he called and left a message saying he was quiting....oh really with who because ya didnt talk to me....dumb ass) or quit without two week or even a weeks notice.

COMMON SENSE PEOPLE. if you work somewhere for more than a year....you might want to do yourself a BIG favor and don't fuck your employer  over. Someday you might want a super duper  reference from them......

Tip Your Hat and Beer to Mr. Guinness

Sorry Arthur G!! I am late by a day. Was to wrapped up in Harps( Guinness light to you weirdos) to remember to write my love "poem"

Thanks to you I can make stew  laced with rich thick stout. Because of YOU, my fondue is creamy yumminess.
Thanks to your beer there is ice cream in my mind( because i forgot to get the rock salt) that will be enriched by your deep darkness...mmmmmmmmm

250 and you don't look a day over 249.

There is no place like"home"

Sadly, home for me is not actually warm and fuzzy  Ozzie and Harriet. It's my work. My actually home...well I know where it is, i know what it looks like but really, I only sleep , shower, veg occasionally in front of the tv and sometimes even cook a meal there. I don't even do my laundry( my 14 year old, bless his soul, does the laundry for the house.) But I am grateful for the "home" I have. It's clean, organized and well maintained.

I say this because I was recently at another location  to assist with a function and the situation is bad. I mean really bad, like "please someone close the place down and rip this shit up and put it all together. again".

It scared me they were serving people from not only this particular kitchen but from the hot line as well.
Two factors were the problem: the equipment is older than dirt and the cooler/freezer were a mess....I mean so disorganized  and improper storage of raw meats and produce...made me want to spend a day just pulling everything out and then scrubbing it then placing everything back in.
The events them self were pretty easy but  so disorganized..I am super organized...I mean my lists have lists that have lists.
Nothing here except for  a small list . But even then 1/2 the stuff was brought in and I haven't a clue why I  there. The two events I could have done easily by myself if I did what this chef did.

It made me thankful for the places I work in...we have our problems but thanks to OCD we are a clean machine.

OCD is handy at times in the food service industry , though at times it can make you crazy when you think everyone else should be thinking like you.

FOOD PORN

Maple Bacon Doughnut lovenly brought back from Portland Or. by my very lovely best girlfriend Shelly. Disgusting as it may appear if you look at it as a big pancake with bacon it makes sense.....especially if you're from Canada.

The McMini ....mmmmm from Montreal McDonalads. Basically their version of a chicken baguette sandwich with pesto. Very Yummy!!!!!! When in Rome ya know. 

Beautiful Cupcake from Itsi Bitsi in Montreal. I think mine was Lemonaide.

Heavy like a cake ...very dense. But very YUMMMY!!!