Thursday, August 18, 2011

Thursday, August 18 - Breakfast

Scrambled eggs
Bagels
Cream cheese
Jelly
Peanut butter
Melon, blueberries, bananas

Now begins the shut down process in which we must run out of food on purpose.

Wednesday, August 17 - Dinner

Pizza: Pepperoni, BBQ chicken, veggie with pesto
Salad
Dirt for dessert

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Wednesday, August 17 - Lunch

OK, we should be back now

VT Highland beef brisket
Salad bar

The brisket was off the hook. A special thanks to Michelle who wrapped each one at 9:30 last night after a killer day.

Jumbo Post 4th session 2011

There has been much to blog about but little time to do it. Since late Saturday night we have all been embroiled in Country Fair madness. Throw in the first full day of rain on Monday, and you have some intense days (or is it daze?). I'll do some summarizing with a few photos, and hopefully we'll get caught up at lunch. Sunday breakfast and lunch were standard fare: scrambled eggs and toast, and cold cuts. Then, enter the madness.

(A quick note on why the kitchen, too, has been consumed by Country Fair. Many moons ago the food at Camp Billings had its faults and we'll leave it at that.  With Country Fair, however, there was a push to goad the cooks into raising the bar at least a little bit. The kids were running around non-stop and needed sustenance that matched their competitive fervor. So a little tradition was started of amping up the food. In my tenure, however, it has posed a slight challenge to amp up already amped up food.  But, in the spirit of a plaque that hangs in the dining hall: anything worth doing is worth doing well)



I give you Country Fair  Food 2011  - sorry there aren't pictures of everything

Sunday Dinner
Fried chicken
VT grass-fed steaks
Baked potato
Cole slaw
Corn bread
Mushroom risotto for vegetarians
Sundae bar for dessert







Monday Breakfast
Waffle bar - there are pictures of this from last year's Country Fair.  We omitted the ice cream this year.

Monday Lunch
Chicken Caesar salad
Fettuccine Alfredo
Breadsticks

Monday Dinner
Ribs - best ribs ever. We started them in the oven at 9:00 am and then finished them on the grill
Potato wedges
Corn
Salad
Pie bar

Tuesday Breakfast
Blueberry pancakes
Sausage

Tuesday Lunch
Very similar to last year's TGIFriday's basket of goodness:
Jalapeno poppers
Chicken tenders
Mozzarella sticks
Chips
AND - an entire Colatina Italian loaf filled with cheese sauce for the table!

Tuesday Dinner
Turkey dinner
Homemade banana bread
My favorite dessert of the year: chocolate chocolate chip cookie sandwiches with mint chocolate chip ice cream

Wednesday Breakfast
Cereal bar - Coco Puffs, Froot Loops, Captain Crunch, Golden Grahams

Friday, August 12 - Dinner

VT grass-fed roast beef
Corn
Mashed potatoes
Roast veggies for vegetarians
Blueberry cobbler with blueberries from Charlotte Berry Farm

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Tuesday, August 9 - Breakfast

Pancakes
Sausage

Monday, August 8 - Dinner

Roast pork
Potato wedges
Cole slaw
Peas
Zucchini muffins
Marble cake

An overall excellent meal that was slightly delayed. I mistimed the pork, so it came out a little later than expected.

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Sunday, August 7 - Dinner

Mac and cheese
Salad
Bread
Ice cream sandwiches

So this is the beginning of the end. Not to sound all morose, but the last mac and cheese of the year certainly signals the end is near.  The silver lining is that Stephanie is psyched she won't have to shred all that cheese for another 46 weeks.

Sunday, August 7 - Lunch

Tots 'n' nuggs

Sunday, August 7 - Breakfast

Michelle's stuffed French toast
Bacon
Crossroad Farm's melon

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Tuesday, August 2 - Dinner

It's the all Vermont meal! Everything we ate came from the great state of VT.
Tonight's dinner was attended by the owners and a few of the workers at Crossroad Farm here in Post Mills.
It was awesome.

Shepard's pie
Salad
Bread
Vanilla ice cream
Blueberry sauce


Tuesday, August 2 - Breakfast

Hard boiled eggs
Ham
English muffins
Hash browns
Cantaloupe
Blueberries

Lame photo due to lack of camera

Monday, August 1 - Dinner

Calzones of epic proportions
Salad
S'more bars - yum

Monday, August 1, 2011

Monday, August 1 - Lunch

Chicken patties
Crossroad lettuce and tomato
Salad bar

Monday, August 1 - Breakfast

Bagels
Cream cheese
Chive cream cheese - it is at this point in the summer I really try to add some special things for the staff.  They've basically been eating the same food for the past 5 weeks.  While it is all good food, it does get a little repetitive over the course of the summer.