The Secret Of Cooking For A Crowd

nder a large family growing up, I learned to cook in a big way. With five brothers and three sisters and mom and dad, I started cooking for eleven people by the time I was twelve, and most of the time without a recipe. Mom needed help and taught her daughters to cook at an early age. I will never forget the first time I fried chicken all by myself. My brothers ridiculed my over-done chicken mercilessly.

I will never forget the first meal I cooked away from home. My sister and I moved together, just us two, and after settling in, prepared our first meal for just us. We cooked just as we were taught: 5 pounds of potatoes for mashed potatoes, 2 whole chickens for fried chicken, 2 quarts of green beans. To date, we still laugh all the food we had left over.

So, needless to say, cooking a large gathering is not a problem for me. Take the task of hosting my husband's family for Thanksgiving and while most people worry about dry turkey, my biggest fear is cleaning the house.

So what's the secret to cooking large? How to cook a meal size, the secret is in the design. Do you need anything and bigger. Please list all the recipes and ingredients needed to buy. Plan your menu, inventory your serving dishes, pots and pans, plates, forks, knives, spoons, glasses, at least one week in advance. Buy everything you need ahead of time with bread and butter, beverage ice.

Once you have your menu and inventory planning, note the schedule. Is the house clean and the seating completed the previous day, so you can focus on the meal, otherwise you pull your hair trying to do everything on time. The easiest way to cook a dish of a meal, like pot roast or lasagna with some extras.

· Main, Braised w / carrots and potatoes

or cook in oven roasting, cooking time of 3 hours, serve on a plate

Page · vegetables, broccoli, steamed

Or Chef 3 Qt. steamer, 20 min oven time to best serve the blue bowl

Pain ·, buy brown and serve rolls (or make from scratch before the hour)

Or in the oven for 15 minutes, the last thing to cook, to serve the basket, buy new towel

After detailing each dish, make a calendar. Example, for dinner 6:00:

2:00 Start pot roast, oven 2:30

4:00 Peel potatoes, slice carrots, add to pot roast by 4:30

4:30 desks

5:15 prepare broccoli, start cooking 5:35

5:35 Prepare rolls for baking at 05:45

5:45 Transfer roast to a plate

5:55 Transfer broccoli to a bowl

06:00 Bread is ready to be transferred to the basket and cover with a towel

Sit for the meal and enjoy it. And for your test, I now present the world's best recipe for roast. It is mine, I went to my mother.

Vessels must:

baking pan roasting is

10-inch skillet

1 or 2 Chuck roasts (2-3 kg each).

1 large or 2 med. onion, sliced

6 carrots (or more if necessary)

6 potatoes (or more if necessary)

1 can onion soup 1 / 2 can water *

Can of mushroom soup (or golden mushroom)

Seasoning salt 1 / 4 or Murray tp.salt

1-2 cup mushrooms (optional)

* 2 cans of two roasts, or substitute

1-2 pkg. mixture of onion soup, for directions.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

First In a skillet large oven roasting pan, add onion soup and water.

Slice second onion and add 1 / 2 at the bottom of the pan. Set aside.

3rd Heat a stove top on top of the stove. When hot, the roast on all sides until brown on the outside.

4. Place seared roast (s) on top of onion soup / onion in the toaster.

5th Sprinkle with salt.

6. Cover with remaining onion slices and canned mushroom soup, undiluted (optional)

7. Cover with alum, hermetically sealed and baked.

8. Set the timer to cook for 1 hour to roast, 2 hours for 2 roasts.

9. Peel the potatoes and cut into quarters.

10th Cut the carrots.

11. When the timer goes off, add potatoes, carrots and mushrooms. Cover and cook for 1 hour more.

Ready when the vegetables are soft. The time may be necessary to change depending on how many vegetables there. They are filled to the brim of the pan and cook was more 1/2-hour.

You can eat this roast with a fork so kind. You can replace the beef roast, but chuck works best in my opinion.

Ummm, Ummm good comfort food! And so pretty on a tray. I wish you

enjoy this as much as me!

PS. Use leftovers: It is not a recipe, per say. This is something like jet-it-all-in-a-pan. Get some soup stroganoff beef mixture and dried noodles egg. Cook the soup, cook the noodles and combine in large skillet. Chop remaining roasted vegetables and everything, and add to pan with remaining juices. Heat through and enjoy!