cooking vegetarian

I think I blogged about "kaernehuset" before, the vegetarian eating club where I cook twice a month with friends.
Back in the 70ies these vegetarian clubs started all over, these days there are only a few left in Denmark from that time, "Kærnehuset" is one on them. They just celebrated their 33. birthday yesterday or maybe 34th. I am not sure. Anyways it is a volonteers based club, when you cook you eat for free, when you are a member you get it cheaper, if you come as a guest a bit more expensive. The place seats around 30 people and it´s the principle of whoever gets there first sort of thing. All sorts of people come, a few eat there every night (well it´s only open Tuesday thru Friday...) many have been there since it started(old hippies now:-)), families come, students come, professors come, all sorts of people from all sorts of ways in life...That is part of the fun of the place, you get to meet people you normally would never talk with.

Cooking there is what I like the most. I love planning, getting there grocessries and prepping and I love doing it with my girlfriends. We are 3 girls at the moment, one is an old friend and the other one I met through "Kaernehuset", cooking together is a great way to connect and also get to know new people.

The praise you get for cooking is another part of the fun, no matter how terrible I find the food, someone always loves it and mostly everyone loves it and praises the cooks, it´s touching and good if I am having a hard day:-)

Tonight we were only two cooks, but we did a damn good job, we were so supprised ourselves. We cooked indian style curry dish with chick peas, potatoes and onions (had lots of fresh gingerand garlic in it), rice with coconut, cooked and blended pumpkin and carrots that boiled with cinnema sticks and another christmas spice, we made indian style bread cooked on the stove, white cabbage with peas fried on the pan and for dessert banancake.... I could hardly believe all the dishes we cooked and we were not even in a hurry. It was a lovely evening and we were happy and all the guests were happy:-)
anyways, that was my little story of today, now I will actually call it a day and go to bed!

Working life after honeymoon

honeymoon phase of new work is over and reality strikes back. Yesterday was my first day of complete chaos and not being able to structure everything I had to do. I mean I thought of work cases before falling asleep, not good not good. It´s because the new phase of meeting clients and actually talking to them has arrived and I have stagefright about that... What am I going to say what am I going to do, yadiyahdi yaaah... I just don´t have the rutine and I feel lost:-/ Anyways there is nothing to do about, next week I have at least 3 meetings, one of them on my own and I have to tell some bad news, yikes, I hope I can do it in a very appropiate and empathetic way so that they wont get too angry at me:-/