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Yesterday after worship and a nap, I spent the rest of the afternoon helping my 13 year old son practice for his first paying chef's gig. ;) Terran's passion is cooking and boy, is he good at it! As I write this morning, he is blessing us by preparing our daily bread.
Terran started his "restaurant" called Chez Terran' (pronounced Shay Tare-Rahn') almost 2 years ago by creating a gorgeous four course meal for my husband and me. As we told our family and friends about it, he has slowly had more and more opportunities to cook for extended family. We started researching the feasibility of letting him start his own personal chef business and decided to move forward in that direction. And this week he got his first phone call from someone we've never met before, asking him to come and be their chef for Valentine's Day!
So yesterday we went back over some of the recipes for the menu they've chosen, streamlining some of the steps, deciding what tools he wants to bring along and what parts of the process he'd like me to do. (And which of those Lissa could handle if I'm unable to due to a fussy baby.)
Sometime this week we hope to visit with the clients and tour their kitchen - just to get a feel for the layout, decide if he needs to bring pans, where to set up the dining area, is the stove gas or electric, etc.
And on Feb. 14th, Chef Terran and his kitchen staff (a.k.a. his chauffer/sous chef - me, and his server - Lissa, and his mascot LOL - baby Emilie) will spend the evening creating Coconut Shrimp with three dipping sauces, Creamy Potato Soup in Fresh Bread Bowls, Savory Pork Roast with Apple Stuffing and Bacon Wrapped Asparagus, and a Chocolate Pecan Lattice Tart for dessert. Yum!
He's not getting paid much yet - just a smidge over his operating costs as it's mostly for experience, but he's enjoying the experience very much. And maybe someday this venture could even pay for tuition at Le Cordon Bleu. :)
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