Preparing for Thanksgiving can be overwhelming.
It’s a big meal, full or recipes that we only make one time of year.
There’s pressure to have it all taste good (obviously) and to have it all warm and on the table at the same time.
Somehow, we all manage to pull it off and live to tell about it year after year.
But have you ever stopped to think about what it’s like at the restaurant your chef/husband or significant other is working at?
Sure they tell us how insane it is and we see them physically exhausted before and after. But have you ever seen what the back of the restaurant looks like the days leading up to Thanksgiving?
It’s like nothing I could have ever imagined!
My husband’s restaurant will be serving 1,000 guests on Thanksgiving.
1,000!
I can’t even being to fathom how you would do that.
Let’s look for a minute at what prepping Thanksgiving looks like in a restaurant . .. no fancy photography, just snapshots with my chef/husband’s phone. I’ll only share a few since you probably don’t care about seeing all 15 of them.
Just part of the produce delivery. Part? That’s a lot of mushrooms!
Hope they have enough Turkey – lol!!
Miniature pies
I think you can usually walk in here somewhere.
I’m overwhelmed just looking at this blurry picture!
At least if you have to cook for that many guests on a holiday, you can step outside and enjoy the view!
I know my chef/husband cooks all the time. That’s his job as a chef. But 1,000 people? That’s a lot. And he’s so calm about it.
I’m not worried about cooking for the 5 of us. I prep. all week and on Friday we just sit around watching a Christmas movie while we eat. No big deal.
But 1,000 people?
That’s just insane!
And what’s crazier is that he and his crew pull it off so easily!
Glad I’m only cooking for 5 . . .
Anyone else amazed at how our chefs pull off meals for so many people in a day?
From one chef’s wife to another,
PS: Don’t miss my new series December 1st called “12 Days of Encouragement for the Chef’s Family.”
