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Twelve Days of Adventures #12, Being of Service

January 1, 2013 By Johnna Leave a Comment

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In 2012, instead of a 52 project, I did a 40+12 project, 40 Days of 40 Favorite Things for my 40th birthday plus 12 Adventures.  This post is one such adventure.  While it does not  include a gluten-free or healthy recipe, it is part of my healthy approach to life lived well.  I hope you’ll read along when I write about my adventures, they are an important part of the journey to health!

My favorite fella and I have a tradition of sharing dessert with our friends/chosen family on Thanksgiving.  Most years, it is just the two of us for Thanksgiving dinner, which we both really enjoy. It’s a quiet day together and then a laughter-filled evening with friends and lots of dessert.

This year, the first holiday season for Kansas City to have Cafe Gratitude,  we volunteered to serve food. Cafe Gratitude offers a free vegan meal on Thanksgiving.

It had been 20 years since I had been in a commercial kitchen where food was being prepared for customers.  My recent exposure to commercial kitchens is limited to teaching culinary classes, a very different experience from serving food on demand.

I met some really great people that day.  It was no surprise that there were like-minded folks in the kitchen.  We talked about dehydrators, raw desserts, eating for endurance training, adventure races, doctors who get it…It was such a nice way to spend the holiday!

We plated food (salad, a beautiful , veggie patty with a hearty gravy and pumpkin pecan truffles), helped with dishwashing, served food, helped out wherever we were needed.  While I know it isn’t like this on most days in restaurants, this was a fun adventure for me.  And really, how could it have not been fun?  We ate really well!

That wraps up my twelve adventures of 2012.  I had more fun that I can ever recall having before in 2012, learned so much that I am sometimes overwhelmed and am seriously excited about 2013.  While I don’t have an adventure blog series planned, I do have lots in store for the blog.  Thanks for sticking around to see where this crazy journey of mine takes me…and you!

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