Opening Day

Today is a day for getting things done that have been in the pending folder. The website went up today www.duck-crossing.net, and I expect that this blog will be an important component of that effort. As many of our friends and family know, this is a year of change for us, we've stopped doing much of what we used to do at the restaurant. After 14 years, we were tired of never having weekends and holidays off and never being able to participate in family events. So we are just doing dinners on Saturday nights, caterings, and other dinners at the restaurant by special arrangement. You can read more about the nuts and bolts of that at the website. Of course, when you live in a small town the gossip is flying that we've gone out of business, filed for bankruptcy, all of which is not true. We've gotten several calls about buying our building, thinking we'd be glad to "unload" it, as if we were having a fire sale. Imagine their surprise when we observed that we were still using our building, and it was only for sale if the check had a fair number of zeroes behind the first digit. We simply took our lives back, and it's a good thing. We don't know for certain what the end of the process will be, for now we are really enjoying the Saturday dinners. We limit our caterings to things that allow us to stretch creatively or for customers for whom we've worked before, and new friends we've made who need some food. Food service, for those who never done so professionally, can be all consuming (pun unintended, but I'm keeping it). Think about what it takes you to put on a holiday meal and multiply by 400%. That's about what it's like to do food for a living. So, this blog is a component of what we have done for the past 14 years as well as part of my bridge to the future. Customers often call looking for food resources or have questions about a recipe or a process. I though it would be more fun to take advantage of the new technologies and make the information I discover available to more folks using this blog. And, if the occasional political observation slips in, oh well. I'm going to try to blog some every day. Please feel free to send your comments and questions my way. Sara