Turkeypalooza

Turkeypalooza at Campus Kitchen, a time when volunteers come in and work with us to create holiday meals for Thanksgiving for over 400 people and families. What do we do? Make turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, greenbean casserole, sweet potatoes, pies, muffins, and lots of other stuff. Where does it go? To those that would otherwise not be able to afford such a wonderful meal and would not be able to celebrate the traditional holiday with those they love.
So, what are we doing after we cook all this?  We deliver it to families, and the leftover foods get filled into shopping bags to come Thursday, when it's actually Thanksgiving, people can recreate the meal they ate on Monday and Tuesday.

My Saturday looked something like this: Wake up at 6am to prepare our turkey for the party we are hosting the night to come. It was all a success, so good. Then at 8:30 I headed to Campus Kitchen to start my shift at 9am. Until 13:00 I cooked with volunteers and helped organize and figure things out so it would be more fluent this year. Last year apparently it was somewhat hectic and some things didn't get finished in time, but not this time around, this time it was all a success. Around 12 I started chopping apart raw turkeys to cook them faster. I'm glad I was taught by my mom how to take apart a bird like that, success. Yes, I was chopping up a poor little bird, and I thought it was fun. Mostly because I knew how to do it and almost no one else knew or wanted to do it. POINTS.

It was a wonderful morning and my refuge at the kitchen is always fun and relaxing, getting my mind off other annoyances or stress as there is not enough time to think of so many things at once.
Working on Campus Kitchen makes me realize I kind of wish we didn't need to make money so I could do this as a job without having to worry about pay to survive. Otherwise, I could just... you know... work for minimal wage and love my job anyway... future? I think so.