My experience cooking for 120 persons voluntarily; Part 1 - Market purchase

This week is a very hectic week and a happy week, I want to take you to how my week started and how it is going.

I had the privilege to cook for 100 persons voluntarily, it was a great privilege. So in the early morning we went to market with the people that were assigned to join me to the market. Although it was a little stressful but we did it with joy and came back successfully.

The market was a little bit stressful like I said because of the prices of things where more than what we expected it didn't align with our budget on the list, but we are grateful we were able to sort everything out and we got all the ingredients and in the same quantity we needed to cook this food.

On my way going to market with my assistant

Coming back home, this was when the work really started because I needed to sort out every ingredients, put all items that will be required for the cooking in place so that the cooking will go very smoothly.

So I arranged all the stock, all the proteins , everything that is needed to be washed, all the fresh veggies that needed to be preserved so it won't spoil.

I washed all mys seasoned it and cook them, Of course my family will also eat so I prepared melon soup for them. I didn't have that time to capture all the moments of me cooking this soup so as to make a post on how I made this melon soup but then I was able to capture the end of me cooking.

This is me washing meat and dishes

It was a very busy day for me but because I'm used to cooking, I was able to do everything comfortably single handedly. Of course you guys know that my second office is my kitchen so I do well too put everything in place so as to make this day successful in my office.

So after 5 hours of marathon cooking, yeah I stood for good 5 hours completely to cook the meat and the melon soup. I stood busy, seasoning, frying, steaming and boiling.

I was able to finish this dishes that you just see and the picture below. Below you see a picture of me displaying what I cook which is meats, melon soup and bone broth.

I also went ahead to try fish in the oven so as to make it very strong for this soup so that it will not spoil in the morning.

Fish

Just after this moment I was really exhausted, so I really thought of how I will do the dishes and clean the kitchen and put everything in place before I go to bed by this time it was actually late at night.

So I got the other option that too grab my phone and capture this dishes. I know when you read to this point you will say so after capturing was the work done hahaha it wasn't but at least I was relieved because I know I'm going to tell someone someday how I got tired at this moment.

Dishes to be washed

So where did I go from here? My body screamed that I needed rest but then a small voice whisper to me that I need a little push from here. Immediately, I had some courage and strength to finish the work. I don't know where it came from, but I thought I got the power beyond what is normal at this moment to wash all these dishes clean up the kitchen and sort out all the ingredients that will be used for cooking the next day.

Ingredients bought from the market

Sorted ingredients we bought from the market, some of them will not be captured in this picture because some are in the fridge and somewhere outside like the afang leaf, the water leaf etc.

So this is the ingredients we used in cooking the afang soup, moi moi and stew for white rice.

In my next post I'll be telling you the continuation of this voluntary cooking service, I'll tell you what I did and how the cooking was but meanwhile thank you so much for reading my posts I really appreciate your support.

From my experience I will say that cooking is more than a skill, it is a passion. I think if you don't have passion for cooking you won't be able to do so in a large girl while volunteering because it is really really a huge work and needs to be prepared very well.

So should in case you have any occasion, any party or events always remember to contact eliany kitchen for your delicious meal, we will deliver delicious meals, quality top notch, service satisfactory.