Category: The Rave Board
Within the last two weeks I did a meal for eight at the Louisiana Center For The Blind which consisted ofcaesar salad, spaghetti and meatballs, garlic bread, two lemonades mixed together for the drink, and hershies brownies with crushed wallnuts and marshmallows in the middle! I am veryexcited and everyone enjoyed this meal! :) Today, I did my meal for 40, which consisted of peach tea for the drink, cesar salad with Kens salad dressing, and nine home made cheese pizzas from scratch. And the dessert was ultimatechocolate chip cookies! :) I am very proud of myself, and everyone said the meal was amazing! :) Tommorrow I go to Monroe and back to do some shopping! :) It is my out of town route! :) I am excited for this requirement for two reasons! One is I get to go shopping and relax. The other is the ability to have the independence to now fulfill my dream of traveling to a new and interesting place! :) I am very happy I made it to this point, and I look forward to the day of my graduation from LCB on Tuesday December 18 at 4 pm. :) Thank you for allowing me this chance to share these great accomplishments with you! :)
Wow most people blind or not can't make pizza dough from scratch, and most can't cook for big crowds like that.
Not only do I stand behind my last post, but learning to prepare food for that many people probably gives you food service skills also. Though they probably told you this. And now that you've done it, even though in a commercial environment you probably wouldn't be the cook, you could certainly manage. No doubt you had to manage getting supplies and things for the event, that's a major part of this stuff.
And ingredients don't just multiply to do larger batches. Depends on what you're working with.
So again, Congratulations on all that. Most sighted people I know have not cooked for 40 people.
that's great. contrats to you.
as a fellow LCB grad myself, I can relate to what a sense of freedom it is to reach this level of independence, and have the confidence in yourself to know that the world is wide open to you, now.
I think that's really neat! Amazing job! I honestly don't know much of the lcb though I've heard of it. I figured I could never really afford to go there so I've never looked in to it.
It would be way beyond most people's budget. I can't think of anyone who has gone there and paid for themselves, or had a family member pay for them to go there. It probably costs thousands of dollars. If you have connections with your state's vocation rehabilitation program, and you really feel that going there would benefit you, then it would be something worth discussing with them. Do your research first though: so at least you know what your getting yourself in to. There are plenty of topics on here about the various centers there are. The Louisiana Center of the Blind, the Colorado Center of the Blind, and Blind Services Inc. in Minnesota are all private centers, and they are affiliated with the NFB. Most other centers are run by individual states.
I have also gone to LCB and graduated from there. It helped me in more ways than I can think of at one time. Best of luck as you finish the program there.
Not disparaging on your accomplishment at all, cuz that is astoundingly awesome, I have to ask this question. What possible purpose could it serve for you to prepare a meal for fourty? I come from a Greek family, and we have huge meals, but no one person ever made a meal for fourty. Meal for eight, sure, I get that, but a meal for fourty? What possible purpose can that serve? Even food service doesn't prepare that on their own. Catering businesses aren't run by one person. So really, in all seriousness, why?
I can answer that for you, cody. just so you can say you did it. and so that, when you're sitting around at home and someone tells you that you cant' cook cause you're blind, you can say, hey buddy, I prepared a meal for forty. want to bet I cant' cook? Why do people hike to the top of a mountain? why do people compete in triatholons. It's more to fulfill the purpose of increasing confidence than to learn a practical skill at this point. It's empowerment. and hey--maybe a person who learns to do that might like to host a party for all her closest family and friends...So without anyone else's help, she can do that. Actually, a friend of mine who graduated from the Colorado training center regularly hosts large parties for extended family and friends--she loves to cook and does it all herself. so there. If you need an actual perpose aside from empowerment, you got it. lol. some people actually do cook for forty people on their own.
Hmm, well, that's a reason I supposed. Not one I'd want to be working toward, but that's just me. Awesome accomplishment either way.
Hey jess congratulations!! keep up the good work! :)
Neat stuff. I've never gone to one of these, but if it works for you sweet!
congratulations! lol not even me! I can cook, but not for 40, nice job!
Congratulations!
Oh, btw, those centers are between $6000 and $19000 per program per person.
Congratulations. That is something to be pleased about. I wish I'd had the opportunity to go to one of these when I was just starting out. Even these days it would be nice. Sadly a Canadian with a full-time job and a baby isn't likely to be able to. But it's great you had that opportunity. As for cooking for forty, I can think of a few instances where one would need to do that. Cruise ships often cater to hundreds of people. Meals for events at my church are usually prepared by one, maybe two people, and there are usually at least a hundred or three. Restrhaunts may have a bit of an assembly line, but I imagine those skills would still be highly valuable. And of course there's always family reunions. Even small famlies can get large when guests join in. Of course all of these are unlikely, but like the other poster said, it's great to be able to do so. If you can cook for forty, you can cook for 1-5.