Mortymoose
Honorary Master
I sit with a Christmas dilemma,
The Christmas cooking over at the Moose Mansion on the 25th is very much a routine.....
The English Mother in law, boils Gammon for yonks on end, The Wife makes seafood starters, The Moose rotates a lamb joint over some coals whilst keeping an eye on the two dead birds rotating in the Weber....
Pots stuffed to the brim with assorted veggies,stuffing steaming up the tiny Moose kitchen, people moving back and forth, the whole morning is a chore.... Roast potatoes being dipped in the hot sweaty oil.....
Moose, well he get's the evil eye early in the morn as he opens his first brew for the day, whilst elevating the level of Xmas music ....
The kitchen is thumping.....
This year I am on shift for the store, being a country store we get to shut our doors on Thursday night and open two whole days later......
This got me to thinking...... In the bakery, I have access to the below beast.....
Now I am no expert, but according to the staff in the Bakery/Fast Food, I can come into the Bakery around 09H00..... load EVERYTHING into the machine, press various programs on the touch screen and a mere two hours later, everything will be cooked......I can even crackle Gammon in this machine......
The idea would be, I would be alone in the bakery, I can pump up the Jam, make merry ....and when the cooking be done, load everything in to warming trays and transport back to the MooseMansion a mere two minutes drive away.........
In principal, this sounds grand, but after speaking to FirstBornMoose late last night, she pointed out that part of the Christmas spirit in the house was in fact the mission going on in the kitchen, the smells, the noise the rising blood pressures......the evil eye........... and the music.....
So my dilemma being, stay at home and be the traditionalist or try something new.....
The Christmas cooking over at the Moose Mansion on the 25th is very much a routine.....
The English Mother in law, boils Gammon for yonks on end, The Wife makes seafood starters, The Moose rotates a lamb joint over some coals whilst keeping an eye on the two dead birds rotating in the Weber....
Pots stuffed to the brim with assorted veggies,stuffing steaming up the tiny Moose kitchen, people moving back and forth, the whole morning is a chore.... Roast potatoes being dipped in the hot sweaty oil.....
Moose, well he get's the evil eye early in the morn as he opens his first brew for the day, whilst elevating the level of Xmas music ....
The kitchen is thumping.....
This year I am on shift for the store, being a country store we get to shut our doors on Thursday night and open two whole days later......
This got me to thinking...... In the bakery, I have access to the below beast.....
Now I am no expert, but according to the staff in the Bakery/Fast Food, I can come into the Bakery around 09H00..... load EVERYTHING into the machine, press various programs on the touch screen and a mere two hours later, everything will be cooked......I can even crackle Gammon in this machine......
The idea would be, I would be alone in the bakery, I can pump up the Jam, make merry ....and when the cooking be done, load everything in to warming trays and transport back to the MooseMansion a mere two minutes drive away.........
In principal, this sounds grand, but after speaking to FirstBornMoose late last night, she pointed out that part of the Christmas spirit in the house was in fact the mission going on in the kitchen, the smells, the noise the rising blood pressures......the evil eye........... and the music.....
So my dilemma being, stay at home and be the traditionalist or try something new.....
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