{"id":20055,"date":"2018-11-24T20:30:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T02:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=20055"},"modified":"2018-11-24T20:30:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T02:30:47","slug":"harvest-feast-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=20055","title":{"rendered":"Harvest Feast 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

My work usually has an annual potluck on Friday before Thanksgiving. We call it Harvest Feast. It’s a tradition that’s been going on for over two decades. I’ve been with the company for over 16 years and it’s happened every year. Some years I’ve been out of town or on vacation but, when I can, I always try to participate. <\/p>\n

This year I was in Topeka all week. When I returned the fleet car back to the office, I found the team had already set everything up. I love this time of year because work always looks so festive. <\/p>\n

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Everyone chips in some money for meat (usually $5) and then signs up to bring some kind of dish for the potluck. This year I signed up to bring dessert. The brownie cake that Brian made for my VASA staff meeting last month was such a huge hit, I decided to recreate it. <\/p>\n

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The cake consists of three layers of brownie goodness. We decided to use different chocolate chips for each layer. We did one layer with dark chocolate chips (above pic). Another layer with white chocolate chips (below).<\/p>\n

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And the third layer had regular milk chocolate chips. <\/p>\n

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Here are pics of the finished brownie cake layers. <\/p>\n

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To save time, Brian and I decided to use store-bought whipped icing instead of making our own ganache (which would have had to cool for two hours). I wasn’t about to stay up all night for this cake. LOL. <\/p>\n

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Here’s the finished product. I thought this cake was super rich the first time we made it. It’s even sweeter and richer with the pre-made icing. <\/p>\n

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Here are some pictures of my coworkers enjoying the feast on Friday.<\/p>\n

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We had so much food and a huge selection of desserts. <\/p>\n

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Sue, Amelia, Erica, and Jeremy were part of the Harvest Feast team.<\/p>\n

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Erica is kind of hidden in the above photo. Here she is below between Amelia and Jeremy. They were helping serve food to everyone.<\/p>\n

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Josh was on the team also. It’s great to see all of the young people at work helping and keeping up the Harvest Feast tradition. <\/p>\n

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Here’s a picture of my plate. <\/p>\n

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Here’s a picture of Chris’ plate. <\/p>\n

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Chris normally eats later so we went around 12:30 pm. We made it just in time. There was only one slice of my brownie cake left so we shared it. Belinda said she wanted to try it so we actually split that slice of cake three ways. Even then we still had some left over. The cake was just to rich. I warned them ahead of time and told them to make tiny slices but I don’t think they believed me. <\/p>\n

I’m so glad that I got to participate in Harvest Feast this year. With my transfer to special projects last year, I sometimes feel disconnected from the contact center. Plus, it’s not very often that you get to break bread and catch up with coworkers. We are all always so busy and heads down on work. Harvest Feast last Friday was a welcome break from it all. I look forward to it every year. GNG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My work usually has an annual potluck on Friday before Thanksgiving. We call it Harvest Feast. It’s a tradition that’s been going on for over two decades. I’ve been with the company for over 16 years and it’s happened every year. Some years I’ve been out of town or on vacation but, when I can, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1340,7],"tags":[2475,2576,181,218],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20055"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20073,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20055\/revisions\/20073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}