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[E. Rain]

nisha asked about where to start for diving into the kitchen head job.
Given that you have some limitations, I'd start with a dinner party.  invite
over 6 or 8 friends and feed them.  it won't give you the experience of
working around a strange kitchen, but if you pay attention it can give you a
lot of the other planning aspects in miniature.  And if you suddenly go into
labor, you can order pizza for your friends and trundle off to the hospital
& they'll understand :->

you'll need to pick a theme and a budget, determine your resources (burners,
oven space, crock pots etc). then plan out your menu with your resources and
budget firmly in mind.  Next, test your recipes on yourself first never your
guests. Figure out how many people the dish will actually serve in a feast
setting, as opposed to as part of a dinner of 3-4 dishes. Note what
equipment is required, if any preprep can be done, if the recipe can be done
well on a large scale (fritters for 6 is easy, fritters for 60 is another
matter) and about how long each stage of preparation takes.   scale your
recipes from the original amount to the number you are actually feeding.
insist that your friends RSVP in a timely manner so that you know how many
you are cooking for.  make a kitchen schedule planning out which dish will
be at what stage of preparation at what time  so they all end up coming out
hot (or cold) at the correct time for each course.
get a clean up crew!
Have fun!

Oh and what I wish someone had told me for my first important feast was that
the damn King didn't like raspberries!
I'd known him all my life, so I asked him what they liked disliked were
allergic to etc, and somehow he failed to remember that, waste of one of the
finest raspberry tortes ever seen (this was in my peri-oid cooking days)

Eden

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