S15: E6: The Art of Cooking for a Crowd

Old Fashioned On Purpose

Jill Winger

Cows, Home & Garden, Education, Cooking, Homesteading, Leisure, Hobbies, Canning, Chickens, Homestead, Farm, Gardening, Farming, How To

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🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Cooking for larger groups used to stress me out SO much, but over the years, I've honed my skills in putting food on the table for big groups WITHOUT spending all day in the kitchen. In today's episode I'm sharing a few of my favorite old-fashioned strategies for cultivating community with food. Podcast Episode Highlights How cooking for large crowds is an old-fashioned ideaGoal #1: Staying in the action despite being in the kitchenGoal #2: Not expensive, still tasty, and not stressfulT...

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0:00.0	So we are coming off of our big annual horsemanship clinic which is always such a fun time of year.
0:18.0	This time around it was eight solid days. We had people come to our home set from all over. They were camping out. We rode from about 8 a.m. Sometimes we started at 5 a.m. But we were riding, you know, 10 hours a day. it was absolutely glorious.
0:33.8	And one of the big aspects of these clinics for me,
0:36.6	in addition to being horseback pretty much all day,
0:39.0	is that I provide lunch for the crew every single day. I don't have to do that. It's not a requirement, it's just something I enjoy and I think that coming together to eat once a day just helps make the events a little more connecting. So anyway, as I was doing a lot of food
0:56.1	prep over the last little while, especially trying to do food prep in the middle of being outside
1:01.1	most of the day, I got to thinking about how this dynamic of
1:05.2	cooking for large groups of people is really an old-fashioned one and I've seen it
1:10.6	exhibited in such beautiful ways
1:13.7	among the farm and ranch wives in our community.
1:17.6	They are pros at cooking large amounts of food.
1:21.8	They don't get stressed out, and they just make it happen.
1:25.2	And so I don't claim to be an expert in this area, but I have learned a few tips and tricks
1:30.0	over the years as I've cooked for the clinic and cooked for lots of other big groups.
1:33.6	It seems like more and more lately we're always feeding groups of people and I really enjoy it.
1:38.2	So today I wanted to share some of my strategies with you and also encourage you that you know even if you live in the
1:45.1	suburbs or you live in the city bringing together your neighborhood or your friend
1:49.4	group for a meal can be a really wonderful way to connect and engage with those around us and it doesn't
1:56.0	have to be stressful. So let's do this. Welcome to the Old Fashion On Purpose Podcast, the show where we look at what we have left behind as we have race towards progress and how we can get the good pieces back.
2:10.0	I'm your host Jill Winger and I've been living this homestead lifestyle for a long time way before it was cool and I love to share my revelations and little bits and pieces I've learned about this lifestyle along the way.
2:22.0	So it's no secret that cooking for any group, let alone a large group,
2:29.3	used to seriously stress me out back in a day. and I had this belief that I had to
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