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Wow, what a great dinner we had last night with Neighborhood Kitchens. We served around 210 meals in total, and had a couple of exciting guests join us at dinner last night.
I’ll add more later today about the NK Project and my recipe for the day on KXOJ.
PART FOUR
With the help of my sister-in-law, I packed up and moved back to Oklahoma with no job prospects on the radar. I picked up odd jobs for a friend of the family who was an interior designer and florist, and began catering parties for some of his clients. It was then that Poached Pear Catering was hatched.....A little light that took almost 10 more years to develop into my catering company.
To supplement my meager income, I started working at a great Tulsa Bakery, where I fine tuned my cake and pastry skills. Next, I received a call from an old employer, the original owner of Wild Bills BBQ, and worked with him developing my catering and BBQ skills. While running the BBQ restaurant for Bill, I revisited my old flame Amy. After a year or so, I received a call from my former church, Garnett Church of Christ. The administrator said, “We have a new 2000 sq ft state-of-the-art commercial kitchen we want to open soon, and we need someone to run it.” Of course, I could not pass up this opportunity. I also could not let Amy get away, so we were married and I started my new job as the facility Chef for the church.
I thought that working as a Chef/Butler was tough, but it was just God’s way of preparing me to work for a church. Think about it this way….you have 1200+ people together interacting as one very big family, and well, most everyone with any family at all knows, we all do not get along all of the time. Although tough at many different points, my job at the church was a wonderful experience. The church’s annual Worldwide Workshop allowed me to flex my creative muscles by researching and cooking many foods from around the world for groups of missionaries and many others. With an ever-shrinking congregation my job as Facility Chef was downsized, and that is where the small light, Poached Pear Catering, began to shine once more. I proposed that Poached Pear Enterprises, Inc. lease the kitchen facilities and the lights for Poached Pear Catering were again shining.
