More Tuna Casserole, More Stabbings
Eight pounds (!) of tuna per pan this time. The tuna was six months past the best by date but was fine. I like putting Lay’s potato chips in tuna casserole but this time used some queso flavored ruffles. Also had some lime juice and mozzarella cheese on hand.
The frozen mixed veggies we served were high quality and were cooked with organic garlic herb butter from Farmstand and chicken stock.
No problems with the customers although some folks were on edge after recent multiple stabbings in the neighborhood. Our door guys don’t do pat downs or have metal detectors and alot of people on the street carry knives for protection, but everybody knows that a soup kitchen is not a place to be pulling out a knife.
I like the hard boiled nature of this place. Working in a kitchen that caters to fancy rich people would be repulsive to me at this point.
—Alex
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Recipe: All-American Tuna Casserole
A home cook usually doesn’t have seven pound bags of tuna lying around but that sure comes in handy when cooking for 150 (see photo).
Alex, I enjoy reading your posts about your work. Do you work with a volunteer staff each shift to prepare the evening meal for Operation Nightwatch, or do you prepare the meal by yourself except for when groups organize themselves to come and work with you?
Good Work !! I'm glad nothing violent happens where people are enjoying EATIN. There is a huge problem in the 12th and Jackson area and has been for years. I have driven there over the years but lately it is just a total down and out space. I wish there was an easy solution but I don't see how the terrible Fentanyal pandemic can be cured. Feeding people is so GREAT and it's not Horrible burgers and fries with diet drinks. Keep up the STELLAR WORK!!!