Birthday For My Friends Dad

bytraceyj55

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5 years ago

So It Was A Special Day.

So I worked for my friend with her dad and it was coming close to his birthday and he never had anything done for him apart from my wonderful friend would pick up and do anything for her dad he was so funny at the Grand age of ninety-two years old and the cheek of a monkey, there were about thirty-five people in the lounge so almost everything was eaten.

Not only was it his birthday it was the Iranian new year so I had decided to cook for both it was always a celebration and a big one so i chose to do something for the Arminian Iranian's as a surprise no one knew even after two years that i could cook so i decided that i would treat every one.

I was planning for a couple of weeks beforehand making sure that i had everything that i needed and that i was not working i had also asked the manager of the home to make sure that it was ok for me to do this for everyone.

What really puzzled me was the fact that this place where my friend's dad was living was unaware that it was the Iranian new year and it was the only thing that did not get celebrated i felt so bad for my friends dad that not only was it the new year but his birthday and not one person thought of him in this home, it was literally his daughter my friend and her husband This took a long time to think and prepare i absolutely loved putting everything together.

I made Persian rice biscuits they are made of rice flour and oil and very hard to make you have to be very careful they beak so easily.

The next thing i made was a savory which is called kookoo sabzi this has a lot of spinach, onions, dill, turmeric, garlic salt and pepper and about six eggs in as well, this gets cooked in the oven for quite a while it is almost like an omelet but quite deep and loads of flavor.

I made about sixty cakes a mixture salted caramel which i made myself, then i made lemon drizzle cakes i left about six cakes at home the rest i took with me to the celebrations.

I put together quite a lot of salads and brought some pickled vegetables also brought some Barbery bread which is Persian it is quite thick bread.

I also mixed different yogurt as well one with garlic and spinach a little black pepper then i also made yogurt which has mint and grated cucumber in with a pinch of salt in.

When i got to work and made his breakfast cleaned his flat then took the case that contained all the food which had taken me almost two days to prepare down to the main lounge i laid the tables out and then put all the plates and the sweets.

I started cooking all the food on Saturday at two pm and went to bed at four am i then got up at eight am on a Sunday to make the rest of the food i then placed everything in the containers and placed everything in a case that i had ready to pack everything.

This also included the paper plates and plastic knife and fork for people to eat with.

When i brought my friend's dad downstairs he couldn't believe what i had done for him he asked why i told him that it was for his birthday this was the first day he met my other half and he loved him i think because he spoke in Persian to him

I wrote this for my half hour of writing and could not post it on the link so i decided to attach as blog for other people can read what i have done for other people