Some work pictures and another BBQ

This is the kitchen where I work. On the other side of those colorful plates, on that big wood table, is the garde manger station where I spend a great deal of time. On the left is the hot line, on the right is the servers' station.

This is looking down past the hot line and way on back into the break room. The boy is Umberto, a server.

This is the hot line, where a la carte meals are prepared.

This is some of the Sunday brunch buffet. That's McCartney, another intern, manning the omelette station. In the chafers? Eggs Benedict, biscuits, gray, waffles, french toast, and berry blintzes. 

The dining room (the other side of the room from the previous pic) as Sunday brunch is just getting underway.

Cassie, Kim's intern, on the sweets. Umberto is trying to get in the picture again :)

View from the "Halfway House". It's a snack bar on the tenth tee.

Glancing back the other way from the Halfway House. That's the ninth green.

Standing on the tenth tee.

June 21 BBQ at Halfway House. This BBQ was an assignment given to me by Chef. I planned the menu, did all the prep, set up the whole thing, and then manned the grill on the day. Italian sausages with grilled onions and peppers, buffalo/chipotle sausages, hamburgers with all the fixin's, grilled chicken breast with barbecue sauce, and huge quarter pound hot dogs with chili and cheese. It was a success.

Well here are some happy golfers now, about to partake (if I will put down my camera and get over there to serve them). I was really proud of my little event. It went off without a hitch, and I even got a "Good job today" from Chef!

Miscellaneous pics from the past month or so

Bill and I saw this double rainbow while we were out and about!

There was apparently some meeting for cool car owners in Biltmore Park the other day. We saw no owners, but check out these cars!!!

We walked over to ColdStone for a smoothie. Here's Bill on one of the whimsical benches they have scattered about in Biltmore Park.

I made miniature peppers stuffed with shrimp (sauteed in garlic and butter) and orzo. Put a little side salad on and it was DIVINE. Kathryn's idea, so Bill has dubbed this dish "Shrimp Kathryn".

Samantha and I rode to Greensboro to see Michael's college theater swansong. It was "A Midsummer Night's Dream". He played Pyramus and Nick Bottom (and a few other roles, as well). He was incredibly great. We laughed and laughed. It was an amazing show and I'm SOOOO glad we saw it. This is before the show, when Faye and Michael met us for lunch.

Memorial Day BBQ at Work

So I had to do a little cookout - just hamburgers and hot dogs by the pool - for Memorial Day. These are some pictures of the ambience. They brought in a ton of toys for the kids and placed them around.

This thing was very cool. If Michael and his friends had access to a thing like this when they were this age, I don't think I would ever have gotten them to leave! They're hitting each other with these big foam things trying to knock each other off the pedestals.

A view of the pool.

This view shows the big water slide thing they brought in. The rainbow looking thing in the back.

This was my station. The chafers had baked beans and so on, and I served up grilled burgers and dogs. Check out the size of that grill. I think I lost 5 lbs. in sweat that day.

This little overlook is where Chef McIntosh would appear from time to time, peering down to make sure everything was going smoothly.

Long time no blog

This is looking into the kitchen in the new place, but Bill just got us some kick-ass new barstools that replaced the two you see here.

This is our bedroom. Need to put up the curtains and there's  a mirror over the bed now.... actually the bedroom is much improved from the time this picture was taken. If I weren't so lazy I would take this picture out, but it's here now :)

My little herb garden on the rail.... Basil, rosemary, and thyme.

Trying to create a natural barrier here to block the neighbors' porches off to the left. That side is the only side of the balcony that is exposed to other people.

There are two things of interest in this picture. One is the "wine rack" over the refrigerator. We don't drink wine, so I came up with a brilliant solution to use that space. I store my various flours and sugars in Mason jars up there! The second thing of interest is the wall behind the stove. It was painted with a flat paint. Ridiculous! We bought some floor tiles at Lowe's and Bill applied them to the wall back there so they wipe clean easily. Yay Bill!

A closer look at the Mason jar storage system.

A closer look at the wall.

This is the view out the back door. Woods, woods, woods. It's nice and you can hear birds all the time. Ace wants to live out there. He lounges out here a lot of the time.