I also try to get to the door before they beat on it trying to open a locked door. ;-) I was baking every day and I ended up eating all the leftovers, of which there were many, so I have stopped making snacks.
What we try to do is make sure we are smiling before we get to the door. That can be difficult at noon...
We have a nice set up for guests to help themselves to coffee and tea and most of the amenities of a kitchen except a stove. I think just making sure that room has everything they might need, being available to help and having local information is about as far as I can go. I'll also put a little giftie in the room if they've let me know it's a special event.
I'll tell you what I've been dinged on...being grumpy. (There's that noon thing again.) And not handing the guest a refreshment as they walked in the door. (You may have this as well but 99% of guests have to put down bags just to take the key for their room.)
So, this year I'm working (again) on that grumpy thing..
Madeleine said:
I also try to get to the door before they beat on it trying to open a locked door. ;-) I was baking every day and I ended up eating all the leftovers, of which there were many, so I have stopped making snacks.
Try freezing your homemade cookie dough in ball shapes and then only bake what you need. We are looking at how to offer a similar evening treat and are currently testing recipes in the freezer.
A test case of the brand name chocolate chip cookie dough found the refrigerated section was pretty good. The massed produced frozen dough from a major home delivery service is not the premium quality we are targeting.
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ThuderingWind said:
Madeleine said:
I also try to get to the door before they beat on it trying to open a locked door. ;-) I was baking every day and I ended up eating all the leftovers, of which there were many, so I have stopped making snacks.
Try freezing your homemade cookie dough in ball shapes and then only bake what you need. We are looking at how to offer a similar evening treat and are currently testing recipes in the freezer.
A test case of the brand name chocolate chip cookie dough found the refrigerated section was pretty good. The massed produced frozen dough from a major home delivery service is not the premium quality we are targeting.
It's not like I was putting out a couple of dozen cookies/day. We're talking 10-12 cookies for 16 people. 2 cookies would be gone in the morning and I'd eat the rest of them. No sense in putting the same cookies out the next day for the same people if they didn't eat them day 1.
I'd like to make a single cookie that holds up well in a cookie jar. Freeze big batches of them and just refill the jar as they are taken. Haven't found a cookie that holds up in the freezer without falling apart or being so soggy no one would eat it.
BTW, I used to use that choco chip cookie dough. It lasts maybe a week in the fridge before getting nasty. And, it's full of chemicals so I quit using it. Pillsbury. Or Hershey's. Either one.
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