Leaving Our Mark, Our Grill Mark

Its our last day of  of 4-H Jr. Chef Day Camp and the pressure is on.  Today we practice the skills we have learned under the watchful eye of our adults.  It is also our last day together with our BFF’s for a week and we want to leave a lasting impression.  So we needed to get at it.
  We started by prepping the food.  We ground up 7 pounds of  sirloin and two pounds of bacon from the Surf and Turf Market that we visited yesterday.  With our ground beef looking perfect we jumped in to prep veggie skewers.  We made them with onions, mushrooms, bell peppers, and pineapple.  On top of that we will have fresh jalapeño pepper poppers and French fries to make for our lunch.
   Once we formed the patties we took our creations to the grills.  We had three grills, three adults and two burgers per grill.  It was a flipping frenzy out there but we checked the temperature and finally moved our burgers/cheese burgers inside and got ready to chow down.
  After adding condiments to make our own perfect burger we finally got to eat the vain of our existence for the last week.  Our day campers described the burgers as amazing, delicious, best burger ever, heavenly, and more.  We think it is safe to say that they liked them.  Even youth who normally wouldn’t eat a hamburger ate their burgers today and really enjoyed them.
  After lunch we took a few moments to rest, then worked on nutrition with Mrs Katie.  She went over the food groups with us and let us relays.  Then we had to work on paperwork. We did a post test, and completed an evaluation.  That allowed us to show off what we learned and give suggestions for future camps.
   When that work was done we got to make ice cream sundaes.  That was a really sweet way to wrap up.  From there it was time clean up.  Like all good chefs we needed to get our kitchen in order.  We learned about cleaning tables, mopping, a made sure to not only clean but sanitize all the surfaces.
  Finally we settled in for one last round of the quiet game.  When our campers get home they will have gotten a 4-H bag filled with goodies like a 4-H apron, -H hand sanitizer, a 4-H cup, and let’s not forget our personal nail brush and our Jr. Chef Cookbook.  When we get home we can cook up some great receipts and remember this week fondly.