December 20th

No post last week. I had a bit of a collision on the way to the Wellspring and was a tad upset so they told me to go home. But I was back in their kitchen this week. Not that much needed cooking; tis the party season and excesses of food lead to big donations to the Wellspring. 


The intention with mains was that we had chicken curry with rice. I was in full swing with the chicken curry and stumbled across some fresh chicken breasts in the fridge! Trust me, that doesn't happen often, so I took advantage and chucked them in. Over the course of the afternoon, donations from about 3 different parties turned up and so instead of rice with the curry, the visitors got pizza (5 huge ones were donated), sandwiches (2 massive buffet trays came in and needed using) and a load of random buffet-style snacks. 


For puds, my mum had sent me with 5 ready-made sponge flan cases. However, more donations meant that those were left for another day (sealed pack, longer shelf life; seemed to make sense) in favour of several cakes that had been donated. The choice included lemon drizzle, apple, yule log and carrot and walnut cakes. But no pudding (except rice pudding) at the Wellspring can be served without instant custard. So guess what came with the cakes? Yep... instant custard. There was also fresh fruit up for grabs that had come in with one lot of donations


Again, I don't know how many people came in to eat because I left early. We had another influx of volunteers tonight so my services at pot wash weren't needed. However, the volunteers did also get a Christmas treat from me in the form of gingerbread Christmas trees.

December 6th

Dinner last night was chilli con carne. Pudding was bread and butter pudding with custard.

Number fed; no idea, I left just as service started. We had lots of volunteers last night from about half an hour before service so I made the food and then left.

The chilli con carne featured; 3 fresh onions (chopped), several tins of tomatoes, a few jars of tomato-based pasta sauce, an unknown number of cans of ready-made chilli con carne and some tins of stewed steak or mince and onions, kidney beans, sweetcorn, chilli powder, OXO chilli seasoning granules and instant beef gravy. This was served with plenty of rice and bread.

The bread and butter pudding (a favourite of the team leader before me; it was the pudding EVERY Tuesday night. They haven’t had it on a Tuesday since September so I thought it was about time it was done again) consisted of; 72 slices of bread (sad that I know the exact number), spread, currants, condensed milk, 4 eggs and caster sugar. This was of course served with instant custard.

I’m not feeling very imaginative at the moment so I’ve no idea what they’re getting for dinner next week.