Comments on: Staff Dinners http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/staff-dinners Food - Photography & More Mon, 21 May 2012 19:43:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/staff-dinners#comment-24213 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:28:34 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/staff-dinners#comment-24213 Melissa, You should have seen the amount of cakes and fizzy drinks the girls had in the back office today, made me feel ill just looking at it. Like the story about the chef, can just picture that :) Miles Melissa,
You should have seen the amount of cakes and fizzy drinks the girls had in the back office today, made me feel ill just looking at it.
Like the story about the chef, can just picture that :)

Miles

]]> by: Melissa http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/staff-dinners#comment-24198 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:49:35 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/staff-dinners#comment-24198 In my twenties I worked at a ski lodge right on the mountain in Taos Ski Valley, New Mexico. It was owned and run by a French ex-national ski team member and his chef (chef Claude, Anne and Cid, remember him from an old post of mine). Claude used to make the most bizarre omelletes similar to this one of chef Thomas'. I remember Claude making an omelette for the staff early one morning that had French fries embedded in it. Old French fries. One of the young men (snow shoveler, fire maker, luggage hauler, etc.) yelled into the kitchen about how weird the omellete was and -- oh my gosh, that charming French chef came totally unglued. I can still recall the sound of pots flying and French cuss words! Very clever post, Miles. I love your "conversation" with the moaners. And the girls. You're so right though. I work with clients who can't seem to figure out how they've gained so much weight. It can't be the 4 donuts and 3 lattes for breakfast. Or the 2 candy bars before lunch. Or the 4 margaritas after work. Or, like you said, the lack of exercise. :-) It's always so entertaining over here! Go, Thomas, go! Melissa P.S. Is there gluten in that omellete? Hey, just asking. In my twenties I worked at a ski lodge right on the mountain in Taos Ski Valley, New Mexico. It was owned and run by a French ex-national ski team member and his chef (chef Claude, Anne and Cid, remember him from an old post of mine). Claude used to make the most bizarre omelletes similar to this one of chef Thomas’. I remember Claude making an omelette for the staff early one morning that had French fries embedded in it. Old French fries. One of the young men (snow shoveler, fire maker, luggage hauler, etc.) yelled into the kitchen about how weird the omellete was and — oh my gosh, that charming French chef came totally unglued. I can still recall the sound of pots flying and French cuss words!

Very clever post, Miles. I love your “conversation” with the moaners. And the girls. You’re so right though. I work with clients who can’t seem to figure out how they’ve gained so much weight. It can’t be the 4 donuts and 3 lattes for breakfast. Or the 2 candy bars before lunch. Or the 4 margaritas after work. Or, like you said, the lack of exercise.

:-)

It’s always so entertaining over here! Go, Thomas, go!
Melissa
P.S. Is there gluten in that omellete? Hey, just asking.

]]> by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/staff-dinners#comment-24146 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:06:28 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/staff-dinners#comment-24146 Cid, I think I was the only one who ate it in the end! It had eggs in it and I was off to the gym so I ate it and thought of England :) Your Dad is a lucky man, just like mine!! Miles Cid,
I think I was the only one who ate it in the end! It had eggs in it and I was off to the gym so I ate it and thought of England :)

Your Dad is a lucky man, just like mine!!

Miles

]]> by: Cid http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/staff-dinners#comment-24144 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:37:58 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/staff-dinners#comment-24144 Miles, That's one hell of an omelette... not sure I've ever seen anything quite like it. How many chefs portions is he holding? In my terms that should feed about 25! How kind of Thomas to smile for the camera, he looks very relaxed while holding what can only be described as ostrich egg surprise :) I've spent a while this afternoon lecturing my father on the finer points of macaron making and how they differ from macaroons. I lost him somewhere between 'the foot' and 'flowing like magma' but he scoffed one and said he liked it because it tasted good and I'd made it for him. That's always been the way of things in my family, it's useless blinding them with science. Good food and free... someone else cooking it for you... sounds like a dream to me. Cid Miles,

That’s one hell of an omelette… not sure I’ve ever seen anything quite like it. How many chefs portions is he holding? In my terms that should feed about 25! How kind of Thomas to smile for the camera, he looks very relaxed while holding what can only be described as ostrich egg surprise :)

I’ve spent a while this afternoon lecturing my father on the finer points of macaron making and how they differ from macaroons. I lost him somewhere between ‘the foot’ and ‘flowing like magma’ but he scoffed one and said he liked it because it tasted good and I’d made it for him. That’s always been the way of things in my family, it’s useless blinding them with science.

Good food and free… someone else cooking it for you… sounds like a dream to me.

Cid

]]> by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/staff-dinners#comment-24142 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:11:59 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/staff-dinners#comment-24142 Rod, LOL is banned on here-doh! I've just typed it. Miles Rod,
LOL is banned on here-doh! I’ve just typed it.

Miles

]]> by: Rod http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/staff-dinners#comment-24134 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 08:15:47 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/staff-dinners#comment-24134 What a great read - LOL - dreadful phrase but I did :lol: It's hard top understand the equation: free food+cooked by someone else=moaning What a great read - LOL - dreadful phrase but I did :lol:

It’s hard top understand the equation:
free food+cooked by someone else=moaning

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