This week, our group had the privilege of cooking dinner for the Discss group. The week before, at our group social, we made a Mexican fiesta meal of tacos and beans and rice and because it was so successful, we decided to repeat the meal, just multiplied by 10. The adventure started the night before when Becky, Liz and I took Becky's car up to Kidlington Sainsbury's to to the shopping. We bought almost £100 worth of groceries- 14 packages of tortillas, 14 bags of tortilla chips, three basg of shredded cheese, 5 jars of salsa, 8 heads of lettuce, 8 packages of tomatoes, 8 package sof taco meat, 4 packages of biscuits for dessert, three tubs of sour cream, etc. I, meanwhile, had bought 20 avocados and four lemons to make the guacamole.
Thursday night, we all met around 5:00 to start the preparations. Rob was making the beans, Becky and Chloe worked on the meat, I got covered in avocado, Ed and I also chopped up the tomatos, Liz shredded the lettuce, Gareth did all of the setting up of the tables and chairs and some of the washing, and we all scrambled around to find more bowls. We were extremely short on containers and were using pots and pans to hold our salads and tortilla chips.
Ed taking care of the tomatoes...
Chloe, Becky and Rob were manning the stove-tops.
Me, post guacamole making.
The lovely spread- we later added bowls of sour cream and chips to the tables, along with the bowls of guacamole and salsa. Everything was a huge hit! Everyone loved the food, we had enough left over for homeless, so many people came back for seconds and we got the washing up done pretty quickly. I loved how we all worked together as a team and I feel like the experience brought our group closer together. There was a lot of laughter and light teasing in the kitchen and everybody was participating. So much fun- although I wouldn't want to do it each week.
Success! The group- me, Chloe, Ed, Liz, Rob, Ailsa, Gareth and Becky.
Thursday night, we all met around 5:00 to start the preparations. Rob was making the beans, Becky and Chloe worked on the meat, I got covered in avocado, Ed and I also chopped up the tomatos, Liz shredded the lettuce, Gareth did all of the setting up of the tables and chairs and some of the washing, and we all scrambled around to find more bowls. We were extremely short on containers and were using pots and pans to hold our salads and tortilla chips.
Ed taking care of the tomatoes...
Chloe, Becky and Rob were manning the stove-tops.
Me, post guacamole making.
The lovely spread- we later added bowls of sour cream and chips to the tables, along with the bowls of guacamole and salsa. Everything was a huge hit! Everyone loved the food, we had enough left over for homeless, so many people came back for seconds and we got the washing up done pretty quickly. I loved how we all worked together as a team and I feel like the experience brought our group closer together. There was a lot of laughter and light teasing in the kitchen and everybody was participating. So much fun- although I wouldn't want to do it each week.
Success! The group- me, Chloe, Ed, Liz, Rob, Ailsa, Gareth and Becky.
It all sounds so great--I love that you're feeling more and more at home. Just don't get TOO at home!!! Take care of yourself and feel better soon!! And this comment is from mom, but i can't figure out how to post it without doing it from Youval's account :-(.
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