Our Third Cook for a Cause Day

On Sunday we celebrated our second anniversary with our third Cook for a Cause Day, a 12-hour cook-a-thon with dozens of volunteer cooks helping to make food to donate to The Carpenter's Cupboard food bank. We made shepherd's pie and deep dish sausage pizzas, both of which turned out great! (I even enjoyed some leftovers for lunch today, which is pretty amazing since I spent 14 hours cooking those dishes yesterday, which is enough to turn me off to most foods for at least a month.)

Thanks to everyone's hard work and generous donations, we were able to donate 520 pounds of food, which will provide a hearty and tasty meal for over 800 hungry people. We had a great time celebrating our second anniversary with so many friends, and it's nice to be able to give something to members of our community who are struggling to give their families the kind of great food that we get to eat every day.

Here are some pictures from the day:

One thing we've learned is that the earliest shift is UNSTOPPABLE when it comes to prepping for the rest of the day. It's 8 am, a time that I usually try to sleep through, and these people are ready to chop mountains of carrots. Just give them knives and get out of the way.

Some happy pizza chefs adding the homemade pizza sauce to our deep-dish pizzas. We made a great crust too!

Mashed potatoes are so funny! Seriously, the mashed potatoes on top of our shepherd's pies were fantastic.