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Communication & Logistics ​

The timeline for cooking is laid out in the recipes.

Communication ​

Mina runs the distro. She is available via text.

Timeline ​

Friday ​

  1. Roast chicken
  2. Marinade cabbage
  3. Peel and crisp chicken skin
  4. Cook rice
  5. Vegetable Prep (this is also the order in which you should do things)
    1. Onions: sliced or large dice. Your call. Don’t have to be pretty. They’ll dissolve in the stew, basically.
    2. Garlic and ginger: food processor, pulsed. Peel and rough chop ginger. The pieces should be about the size of garlic cloves. Throw everything in the food processor, pulse it until things look minced.
    3. Potatoes: these should already have been done yesterday. Place them on the counter before you, as you would a god.
    4. Canned tomatoes: open the cans.
    5. Cauliflower: florets, bite-sized, along the lines of the potato.
    6. Peppers (bell and sweet): medium dice on the bell peppers, half-inch rings for the sweet peppers.
    7. Cabbage: you did this a few hours ago.
  6. Make stew
  7. Cool stew
  8. Add salsa verde
  9. Pack stew
  10. Pack rice
  11. Confirm pickup time/person with Mina

Saturday ​

7:45 AM | packed food and gear on porch

  • two big pots no lids
  • long metal shoehorn for stirring
  • 4 buckets stew
  • 1 cambro rice
  • 6qt cambro of salsa verde
  • hotel pan dessert (optional)
  • bluetooth speaker (optional)
  • chess board (optional, for slow hour)

8:00 | AM Mina picks up food/gear and minimum 1, up to 2 people

8:30 | car stops at Trader Joes/Target for bananas and bread

9:00 | get to Hope Church kitchen, begin heating stew

  • all stew moves from buckets to pots, heat, then back to buckets
  • cap all buckets hot stew
  • scrub pots

10:15 | repack hot food into car

10:30 | out of Hope Church

  • morning volunteer can head home now, ideally with cleaned pots

10:45 | at Tompkins, organize lines and set up

11:00-1:00 | serve; line slows by noon

1:00-1:30 | return tables to Hope Church, clean and stack buckets

1:30 | Hope Church locks up; if swampdog is present, take home dirty buckets, otherwise leave for Mina to drive back

If no hands available to bring buckets back, they can stay and be retrieved later in the week, though better if they make it home.