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Like having two jobs

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I’ve finished my first three days as a film caterer and so far it’s been successful (I think). I’ve made a lot of sandwiches, biscuits and hummus which all seemed to go down well. The oatmeal, raisin and banana cookies were a hit (recipe and picture to follow) and I’m getting very good at hummus.

I’ve got 2 days off now, which is great because I’m knackered. I feel like I haven’t sat down in 3 days. This weekend I’m doing a couple of proper dinners for the cast and crew; pasta (Orzo) salad with roasted veg one day and then pasta with pesto, potatoes and green beans the other. It’s going to be a pasta based weekend, but hopefully no-one will mind and we are on a budget after all!

I’d love to post some photos but I’ve lent my camera to Jonic to get photos of the shoot so that’ll have to wait. Let’s hope it all carries on going so smoothly. You can read about the progress of the film on Miles’ blog.

On being completely underqualified…

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CrimeFighters

My lovely friend Miles is making a film in York in the next two weeks and I, like the flipping dork I am, volunteered to do the food.

We started last night, making sandwiches, biscuits (flapjacks = fail) and plenty of hummus for the troops. I had help from the lovely Miss Helen Batty and from Jonic. It was actually a lot of fun.

Tonight is a similar night but instead of 15 people to cook for, there are 40. Two of whom are allergic to eggs. When I was vegetarian I found it really annoying when people didn’t take that into consideration and I was a bit of an afterthought so I’m trying to make most things egg-free.

With that in mind, I’ve been trying to figure out how to make some oatmeal raisin cookies without egg. I’ve been googling and apparently you can substitute half a mashed banana per egg in a lot of recipes. I didn’t know that and I’m really intrigued to try it out. I’ll let you know if it works. If it does then that might be the first recipe I put up here. Exciting stuff!

I will try to take some photos as the catering continues. Fingers crossed that everyone enjoys it and I don’t poison them.