As mentioned before the teachers for the week became the kitchen staff for the week as well. Not much was organized and we all had our times of wanting to throw the towel in. And just when you thought there wasn't enough food to feed everyone, God provided and stretched our supply or provided a way to get more.
Toward the end of the week, we were suppose to be serving homemade Macaroni and Cheese. Dear Elissa, the girl who volunteered to take on leading the kitchen for the week, spent about 3 hours while we were in classes, etc, boiling all our noodles, not an easy task when you're feeding about 250-300 people!
We were told at the beginning of the week, that the contents in a clear, non-labeled bag was the cheese sauce we were to use. From the beginning Elissa, Amanda and I thought that the color might have been correct (a yellowish like cheese), but we all felt like it was really too liquefied.
Well once when Elissa was done with the noodles, I came in and started to help out and then Amanda. I pulled out the "cheese sauce" and we decided to just pour some in a pot with the noodles. I began stirring it over a medium high heat and then to my shock, something very weird happened.
"Elissa, um this is curdling," I said.
Elissa's response: "WHAT?!?!"
Now, considering pretty much every meal before this was prepared in stress and disorganization, this was just the icing on the cake.
I said, "Okay, we'll maybe it's the type of cheese sauce that we have to heat up and thicken separately before we add it to a pot with noodles."
So I got out a small pan and added a small amount of cheese sauce over it, again over medium high heat. I'm sure what I said next was Elissa's definite icing on the cake.
"Um, it's curdling again!"
By this point we had less than a half hour before dinner, a couple of hundred very hungry mouths to feed and nothing besides noodles prepared. Anything else we could prepare was incomplete with ingredients.
And what is a person suppose to do at a time like this? Pray, laugh, cry, mourn, throw a fit?
We started panicking and then that led into laughter. By this point we called Aaron and Keith in and they taste tested the unknown bizzare looking substance.
The look on their faces was so priceless!
And then Keith announced, "This is EGGS!
Oh my goodness, by this point I'm definitely in laughter mode...what else can we do. We got the advice of our camp director, Erin and soon we were off trying to make our own cheese sauce.
I went to the fridge, found a tub of margarine, a half a package of shredded cheese (not enough), some parmasan cheese and milk. I returned to the fridge, where I thought I definitely had only seen a half a package of cheddar cheese to my surprise to find 2 MORE BIG BAGS OF SHREDDED PARMASAN! Praise God!!!
So I got a big pot out, began melting butter, melting cheeses, adding a bit of milk, salt and pepper and began stirring!!!
By this point, everyone is pitching in to help
When it was all said and done, we made the many batches of Mac and Cheese with success and it was such a hit, kids wanted seconds and we were actually able to give them seconds for this meal! AMAZING!!! God really saw us through and way provided, as we trusted in him.
JOSH SAYS:
My wife is amazing! She is such a great cook...just look at me! She was very modest in this post...if it wasn't for her quick thinking and her mad cooking skills we would of had some angry and hungry junior highers...not a pretty picture (trust me!). Thank you Anna!
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