9 October 2011- 18 October 2011 main gate function and fruit cakes

9 October 2011-was my first day back at work, luckily i came back on a really special day, chef ordered 9 ducks, duck eggs, duck fat and duck liver, so he started teaching me how to make them, he taught me how to remove the neck, fat, wings and tail, i roasted them off, and then used the skin of the necks to make a stuffed neck sausage, i was also told to make 100 croissants, cool and store all products

10 October 2011-  today i started the day with making bedoned chicken drumsticks and fillet, then i made a origanum hone mustard sauce for the chicken, braised the duck in a sweet and sour sauce made by kieron.we warmed up all the foods, like chicken livers, the bedoned chicken in the sauce, chicken breast strips in a coco and mixed nut sauce, sweet pepperdew fillet, jalapeno and cheese risolles, mixed cheese and garlic mosbolletjies and a smoked lamb. we set up the main gate buffet and all the foods for the john deere people, we serve them, cleaned up and left, they were due to sleep over at sondela, and they wanted dinner, so we went on a split shift, and came back to finish off dinner, we made a seafood bisque, the sweet braised duck, oxtail, beef roll and duck livers. we served the john deere guests and then cleared and cleaned.

11 October 2011- we came in early to do breakfast, we made balsamic fried mushrooms, scrambled eggs, bacon, beef sausages, wedges, muffins and cold cereals thereafter it was just orders and cleaning

12 October 2011- went to moselesele and stripped the whole kitchen to clean, deep cleaned from top to bottom, went on split, came back and started making dinner, which was, salad, chicken stir fry, sosaties, wors and a fish stir fry.

13 October 2011- made 3 cheese and ham omeleetes and 2 smoked haddock, tomato, mushroom and cheese omelette, cleaned and went on split, when i came back, i started making the dough for a millers beer bread, and did my mise on place and cooked the curry beans, made a tomato and onion mixture, roasted potatoes, pasta salad, mielie pap, venison sosaties, wors and a green salad

14 October 2011- went to moselesele in the morning and cleaned, then i went on split as there were too many people in the kitchen, and came back to vleisvreters at night, carved the meat off the fire for the guests

15 October 2011- cut up beef roll, did pizza orders and worked in hot kitchen doing orders all day

16 October 2011- heat up spatchcock, made butternut, rice, chicken livers, mixed vegetables, roasted onions and set up the whole buffet for mike bosch from bosveld eggs 50 year functon, it was clearing, cleaning and orders the rest of the day

18 October 2011- today we made a 40 kg batch of fruit cake mix, placed in moulds and baked them, this is to prepare for christmas.