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snousleHeading off tomorrow for the Golden Gate Guards run, where I will be cooking for 50 people, then to Badger.
Of course, fate conspired to make today the hottest day of the year. A hundred and seven degrees. I had to do about $800 worth of grocery shopping (four massively overflowing carts) and it was totally miserable. The van has no thermal insulation at all, so it was hard to keep things cool, and loading it up in the parking lot was pure hell. I really dislike the shopping phase of things to begin with - even with a comprehensive list, I tend to panic. Something about buying, say, thirty pounds of chicken at Safeway seems terrifying and wrong for reasons that are hard to pin down. All these fresh ingredients are a huge responsibility, and properly caring for them is extremely stressful. The heat makes it that much harder. This must be what it's like to be Octomom, LOL.
We gave up on passive cooling and turned on the AC today, including in the commercial kitchen. First day this year we had to use it. This is expensive unto itself, about twenty bucks worth of power, but with a night-time inversion keeping the heat on the mountain, it hasn't been cooling down enough at night to keep the house tolerable during the day.
The run will go fine and it won't be all THAT bad. But I think this will be the last year for this particular gig. It's just too much, and it's hard on the whole household.
Besides, it's likely to be so freaking cold at Badger that today's heat will seem like a touch of paradise...
Of course, fate conspired to make today the hottest day of the year. A hundred and seven degrees. I had to do about $800 worth of grocery shopping (four massively overflowing carts) and it was totally miserable. The van has no thermal insulation at all, so it was hard to keep things cool, and loading it up in the parking lot was pure hell. I really dislike the shopping phase of things to begin with - even with a comprehensive list, I tend to panic. Something about buying, say, thirty pounds of chicken at Safeway seems terrifying and wrong for reasons that are hard to pin down. All these fresh ingredients are a huge responsibility, and properly caring for them is extremely stressful. The heat makes it that much harder. This must be what it's like to be Octomom, LOL.
We gave up on passive cooling and turned on the AC today, including in the commercial kitchen. First day this year we had to use it. This is expensive unto itself, about twenty bucks worth of power, but with a night-time inversion keeping the heat on the mountain, it hasn't been cooling down enough at night to keep the house tolerable during the day.
The run will go fine and it won't be all THAT bad. But I think this will be the last year for this particular gig. It's just too much, and it's hard on the whole household.
Besides, it's likely to be so freaking cold at Badger that today's heat will seem like a touch of paradise...
