Culinary, Arts, Thread.

[Behr]

 

[Orangeredblooded]

Anyone got ideas for casserole recipes? I've been searching all morning and all that I've come across are boring. As this quarantine drags on, I've got to come up with more ideas for meals, that are portable, able to hold heat longer, not hard on the cooks and can be served to 80 people within 1 hours.

 

[NorCalVol67]

Anyone got ideas for casserole recipes? I've been searching all morning and all that I've come across are boring. As this quarantine drags on, I've got to come up with more ideas for meals, that are portable, able to hold heat longer, not hard on the cooks and can be served to 80 people within 1 hours.

Would they go for Burrito Pie?

 

[vol445]

Anyone got ideas for casserole recipes? I've been searching all morning and all that I've come across are boring. As this quarantine drags on, I've got to come up with more ideas for meals, that are portable, able to hold heat longer, not hard on the cooks and can be served to 80 people within 1 hours.

I love a sausage casserole

 

[tnuhcvols]

Tetrazzini- ham, chicken, or turkey

 

[Orangeredblooded]

Would they go for Burrito Pie?

They pretty much like anything different. I'll look it up

 

[Behr]

Anyone got ideas for casserole recipes? I've been searching all morning and all that I've come across are boring. As this quarantine drags on, I've got to come up with more ideas for meals, that are portable, able to hold heat longer, not hard on the cooks and can be served to 80 people within 1 hours.

Out of curiosity, I assume they get 3 meals a day, breakfast, lunch and dinner? This meal would be which one?

How is this meal served? I mean, is it buffet style, do they go through a line like cafeteria style, do you plate/tray it and take it to them in their rooms?

What type of equipment do you have? Oven, stove, fryer, flat top, grill etc. Pretty much a full kitchen?

How many people do you have to help with this, from start to finish?

Are you trying to use what you have on hand or are you or you gonna order some stuff? Got a budget?

None of this is really that important, I'm just mostly curious and trying to get an idea of the operation.

 

[NorCalVol67]

Out of curiosity, I assume they get 3 meals a day, breakfast, lunch and dinner? This meal would be which one?

How is this meal served? I mean, is it buffet style, do they go through a line like cafeteria style, do you plate/tray it and take it to them in their rooms?

What type of equipment do you have? Oven, stove, fryer, flat top, grill etc. Pretty much a full kitchen?

How many people do you have to help with this, from start to finish?

Are you trying to use what you have on hand or are you or you gonna order some stuff? Got a budget?

None of this is really that important, I'm just mostly curious and trying to get an idea of the operation.

Inb4 TFG’s tldr.

 

[Behr]

Inb4 TFG’s tldr.

Good cause it ain't none his bidness.

 

[Orangeredblooded]

Out of curiosity, I assume they get 3 meals a day, breakfast, lunch and dinner? This meal would be which one?

How is this meal served? I mean, is it buffet style, do they go through a line like cafeteria style, do you plate/tray it and take it to them in their rooms?

What type of equipment do you have? Oven, stove, fryer, flat top, grill etc. Pretty much a full kitchen?

How many people do you have to help with this, from start to finish?

Are you trying to use what you have on hand or are you or you gonna order some stuff? Got a budget?

None of this is really that important, I'm just mostly curious and trying to get an idea of the operation.

1. either lunch or supper
2. because they are quarantined to their rooms, each meal is in takeouts and served to each individual rooms by the RA's, servers take care of the drinks
3. full kitchen
4. depends on meal, lunch: myself, 2 cooks, 2 servers and 2 resident assistants
5. I order weekly from US Foods, raw food budget is around 3000 weekly

 

[Behr]

80 people a day, 3 times a day and you do it on $3000 a week? That's like $1.80 per person per meal.

Carrot soup.

 

[Orangeredblooded]

80 people a day, 3 times a day and you do it on $3000 a week? That's like $1.80 per person per meal.

Carrot soup.

it's a frigging nightmare, my budget hasn't changed in the 8 years I've been in my position. Because we are a Healthcare facility, we get special pricing with my food vendor, It's called Premier. With imagination, I can still do things like, Chicken Marsala, Spaghetti Carbonara, Beef Burgundy, etc.

 

[joevol33]

Anyone got ideas for casserole recipes? I've been searching all morning and all that I've come across are boring. As this quarantine drags on, I've got to come up with more ideas for meals, that are portable, able to hold heat longer, not hard on the cooks and can be served to 80 people within 1 hours.

We do a taco casserole, it's pretty good.

We get the round, like a quarter, tater tots. Do the meat like you normally do for tacos and bake the tater tots. Put the tots in a casserole dish, then meat, then cheese, and bake till cheese melts. Add other toppings after as desired.

 

[Behr]

Hats off to you, I know those places are tight like that and its got to be almost impossible to come up with something different, especially with that type of budget. That would drive me crazy.

My first thought was some type of etouffee. It doesn't have to be shellfish or even Cajun, etouffee is French for smothered, so smother some rice with something and call it "chili etouffee". Etc.

Walk-in Frittatas, made with all kinds of scraps from the walkin. Lulz. Serial! Put it all in a hotel pan, fill it with egg and milk and throw it in the oven. Boon!

Roasted Vegetable lasagna is on of my favorites. Roasted eggplant is delicious in this and its usually cheap and goes a long way.

Pancakes and waffles are pretty cheap. They're a pain to make a bunch at a time, but the hold good. Make a shredded chicken or turkey and pancake or waffle casserole.

Norcals burrito pie could be done in hotel pans.

Make some of your classics or boring ones and add a sauce of some kind, or add some bread crumbs and a sauce.

Or none of this and do whatever all this sparked your imagination to do!

 

[508mikey]

Beef stroganoff

 

[Orangeredblooded]

Beef stroganoff

I do that one every once in a while.

 

[82_VOL_83]

Anyone got ideas for casserole recipes? I've been searching all morning and all that I've come across are boring. As this quarantine drags on, I've got to come up with more ideas for meals, that are portable, able to hold heat longer, not hard on the cooks and can be served to 80 people within 1 hours.

GVG makes a "hamburger macaronii and cheese" casserole that is incredible. Probably could be altered to serve 80 but takes about an hour and a half to make.

 

[Orangeredblooded]

GVG makes a "hamburger macaronii and cheese" casserole that is incredible. Probably could be altered to serve 80 but takes about an hour and a half to make.

Morning shift cook has about 2 hours to prepare a whole meal, (a lot of prep has to be done ahead), evening shift has 4 hours, so this probably better suited for evening.

 

[Behr]

GVG makes a "hamburger macaronii and cheese" casserole that is incredible. Probably could be altered to serve 80 but takes about an hour and a half to make.

Nope, it can only be made for 2.

 

[BigO95]

My wife makes a breakfast casserole with bread and eggs, cheese and crumbles sausage in it. It makes the sausage go further. You can put onions and peppers in for flavor. Even taters if you want to. She bakes it like a casserole dish and it's pretty good.

 

[BigO95]

We also mix rice in with our taco meat and season it with the meat. It soaks up a lot of season but season is cheaper than meat. It still taste great in my opinion.
If you tried this with joedawgs taco casserole you might get out really cheap.

 

[volfanbill]

My wife makes a breakfast casserole with bread and eggs, cheese and crumbles sausage in it. It makes the sausage go further. You can put onions and peppers in for flavor. Even taters if you want to. She bakes it like a casserole dish and it's pretty good.

my mom makes this.

 

[hmanvolfan]

it's a frigging nightmare, my budget hasn't changed in the 8 years I've been in my position. Because we are a Healthcare facility, we get special pricing with my food vendor, It's called Premier. With imagination, I can still do things like, Chicken Marsala, Spaghetti Carbonara, Beef Burgundy, etc.

Damn, I didn’t get food like that when I was in the hospital.

 

[rocytop2624]

Anyone got ideas for casserole recipes? I've been searching all morning and all that I've come across are boring. As this quarantine drags on, I've got to come up with more ideas for meals, that are portable, able to hold heat longer, not hard on the cooks and can be served to 80 people within 1 hours.

Breakfast casserole mmmm

 

[theFallGuy]

Out of curiosity, I assume they get 3 meals a day, breakfast, lunch and dinner? This meal would be which one?

How is this meal served? I mean, is it buffet style, do they go through a line like cafeteria style, do you plate/tray it and take it to them in their rooms?

What type of equipment do you have? Oven, stove, fryer, flat top, grill etc. Pretty much a full kitchen?

How many people do you have to help with this, from start to finish?

Are you trying to use what you have on hand or are you or you gonna order some stuff? Got a budget?

None of this is really that important, I'm just mostly curious and trying to get an idea of the operation.

I want you to know I read every single word of this in meticulous detail.