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My day was going great until I put the sheet of biscuits in the oven. After 5 minutes, I went to check on them and discovered that the oven wasn't on. I had turned it off earlier and forgot to turn it back on. Grr. Remade the biscuits. Thankfully this client is always well-stocked with butter and flour. The biscuits came out great.

Wonderful, everything is perfect, I'm ready to package. I'm doing a 5/6 (that's 5 different meals, 6 servings of each meal), each meal gets packaged in two 2-serving packages and two 1-serving packages. I get two of the five meals vacuum sealed and am about to start on the next meal and I hear a big boom, then the power goes out. No big deal, I've had the power go out while I was at a client's before, it will be back within 30 minutes. I can wash dishes and clean up. Must conserve water because once the well holding tank is empty, no more water until we have electricity to run the well pump. I get the dishes done. Yay. OK, so I'll put all the remaining food in the vac bags and have them ready to seal when the power comes back. It will be back any minute now, right? Got everything in bags waiting for the power to come back. It will just take 15 minutes to seal everything. Dishes are washed. All my stuff is back in my car. Still no power. Client had been home earlier in the day, but she went out just before the power failure. Client comes home. Of course her garage door won't open. I go out and tell her that power is off. She is annoyed that I've been held up. We try to start the generator. We get is started, but it won't stay running. Grr. Client calls power company. They say they know about the outage, haven't determined the cause, but they predict power will be back on by 6:30pm. Hmm, doesn't sound too promising. Client tells me to go home and that she'll seal everything when power comes back. (One of my sealers lives at her house.) We go over how it works. Just as I am getting ready to leave, power comes back on. Client is excited to play with the sealer, so we seal everything. She thinks its fun. I finally go home 1 1/2 hours later than I would have if the power hadn't gone out.

Posted September 29, 2008 9:10 PM in Cook Dates

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Cindy Barnard said… (on October 2, 2008 at 18:02 PM #)

Patti, I am sitting here reading about your day. Last week I arrived at my Thursday client's.....got everything organized, oven on, apron tied. Ummmmmmm where did I put my notebook? The one with the menu, recipes, the labels, my order of events...my life! Surely it must be here. But in my heart of hearts I know it is not. It is on my kitchen counter AT HOME. 35 minutes away.
I cannot recreate everything in my head. Just can't. Deep sigh. Get in my car and make the round trip. Always, always, always check for everything before leaving home. I know this! But I forgot. Sigh.

Patti said… (on October 2, 2008 at 18:49 PM #)

Oh Cindy, I hate when that happens. It's hard to shake it off.


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