Re: [CnD] Question: what can the blind do in a restaurant?

[Mike and Jenna via Cookinginthedark]

Hi,

I woulk in the restaurant filed. I find that their really isn't much she can 
not do. I found the only thing for me was decorating cakes and stuff.

-Original Message-
From: Parham Doustdar via Cookinginthedark 
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Sent: Friday, December 4, 2015 5:11 AM
To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org
Subject: [CnD] Question: what can the blind do in a restaurant?

Hi,

As a programmer, I started programming before I even knew my limitations. I 
didn't know what the blind can and cannot do when it comes to programming, and 
I frankly didn't care: programming was fun and I did it, and that was all that 
mattered.

However, when it comes to food-related stuff, for most stuff, you need to get 
training, and you need to know what you can do better than others, and what 
you're not so good at, and what you definitely cannot do, so that you can do 
what is called "targeted learning", where you slim down what you're going to 
learn to what you will absolutely need, and go for them.

My spouse who is completely blind likes to one day own a restaurant. 
Even if she doesn't achieve this goal, she enjoys reading about food, learning 
how to cook, and so on. I've read that there are blind restaurant owners and 
chefs and so on, and this email is for those people.

Since you guys are much more experienced at this than I am, can you help her 
decide what to learn? What positions in a restaurant are blind-friendly, to 
coin a term?

Best,
Parham
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Re: [CnD] Question: what can the blind do in a restaurant?

[Gerry Leary via Cookinginthedark]

Hello, I am Gerry Leary. I own the unseen bean coffee shop. It has two 
locations. I roast all of the coffee for it. I can do most tasks in the coffee 
shops well, and a few tasks clumsily. The tasks that I do clumsily or ones that 
I don't do often and haven't learned well. I do come from a handy background, 
because I was car mechanic for 40  years. I have been blind since birth, and 
have no idea what vision is. The tasks that are difficult for me to do in a 
coffee shop or things like spreading things on bread smoothly picking up only 
one slice of Finley sliced meat. I do these things with food gloves on because 
a it is a requirement, and be it gives the people confidence in the cleanliness 
of our shops.

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> On Dec 5, 2015, at 6:24 AM, Mike and Jenna via Cookinginthedark 
>  wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I woulk in the restaurant filed. I find that their really isn't much she can 
> not do. I found the only thing for me was decorating cakes and stuff.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Parham Doustdar via Cookinginthedark 
> [mailto:cookinginthedark@acbradio.org]
> Sent: Friday, December 4, 2015 5:11 AM
> To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org
> Subject: [CnD] Question: what can the blind do in a restaurant?
>
> Hi,
>
> As a programmer, I started programming before I even knew my limitations. I 
> didn't know what the blind can and cannot do when it comes to programming, 
> and I frankly didn't care: programming was fun and I did it, and that was all 
> that mattered.
>
> However, when it comes to food-related stuff, for most stuff, you need to get 
> training, and you need to know what you can do better than others, and what 
> you're not so good at, and what you definitely cannot do, so that you can do 
> what is called "targeted learning", where you slim down what you're going to 
> learn to what you will absolutely need, and go for them.
>
> My spouse who is completely blind likes to one day own a restaurant.
> Even if she doesn't achieve this goal, she enjoys reading about food, 
> learning how to cook, and so on. I've read that there are blind restaurant 
> owners and chefs and so on, and this email is for those people.
>
> Since you guys are much more experienced at this than I am, can you help her 
> decide what to learn? What positions in a restaurant are blind-friendly, to 
> coin a term?
>
> Best,
> Parham
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> http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark I am using Siri to 
> dictate this, so it may be a little rough. Anyway the tasks that I find 
> difficult I don't do often, but they haven't gotten easier. As I work in the 
> industry and experiment yes somethings to get much easier. But things like 
> latte art I haven't done yet. Some of the tasks in a restaurant can be 
> easier, if you use equipment that blind people can control. Our use a cash 
> register program that works on an iPad and it works quite well with 
> voiceover. It also has a really good back office that you get to online that 
> can give you all of the reports. I do have a little difficulty working with 
> her talking scale, because there isn't a good one that can do what I needed 
> to do. So that task I leave for others most of the time. I do have a scale 
> that talks, but it is not trade legal so I can't custom way anything. Also I 
> may have a little trouble with presentation when I'm putting things on our 
> plate, because I don't necess
 arily know The way that it might look the best. So, other people and assist me 
with that. When our coffee shop is really really busy, I generally stay away 
from the backside of the counter. I can be more productive talking to people 
about how blind people roast coffee, what kind of adaptations we had to make in 
the equipment so that I could use it, and anything about the rest of the 
difficulties of being in the restaurant I would say, the most difficult part 
about being a blind business person is all of the paperwork necessary to carry 
it out. The accounting the taxes the invoicing the receiving the shipping and 
anything else that you might think of that song for you druther really needs a 
pair of eyes to make it an efficient process. Therefore a lot of that work I 
have to buy. So in some ways it cost me more as a blind person however, there 
are sighted people out there that just can't add 2+17-5 because it just isn't 
something that they like to do there are sighted people out there
  that don't even know what a screwdriver does. They just don't have it in 
them, or they don't have the interest. So we're not really any worse off as 
blind people. In my case I have to pay bookkeepers accountants secretaries 
readers drivers and 

Re: [CnD] Question: what can the blind do in a restaurant?

[Parham Doustdar via Cookinginthedark]

Hi Gerry,

Thanks for sharing your experience. It's great that you're doing all
these stuff; keep up the great work!

On 12/5/2015 5:43 PM, Gerry Leary via Cookinginthedark wrote:

Hello, I am Gerry Leary. I own the unseen bean coffee shop. It has two 
locations. I roast all of the coffee for it. I can do most tasks in the coffee 
shops well, and a few tasks clumsily. The tasks that I do clumsily or ones that 
I don't do often and haven't learned well. I do come from a handy background, 
because I was car mechanic for 40  years. I have been blind since birth, and 
have no idea what vision is. The tasks that are difficult for me to do in a 
coffee shop or things like spreading things on bread smoothly picking up only 
one slice of Finley sliced meat. I do these things with food gloves on because 
a it is a requirement, and be it gives the people confidence in the cleanliness 
of our shops.

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On Dec 5, 2015, at 6:24 AM, Mike and Jenna via Cookinginthedark 
 wrote:

Hi,

I woulk in the restaurant filed. I find that their really isn't much she can 
not do. I found the only thing for me was decorating cakes and stuff.

-Original Message-
From: Parham Doustdar via Cookinginthedark 
[mailto:cookinginthedark@acbradio.org]
Sent: Friday, December 4, 2015 5:11 AM
To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org
Subject: [CnD] Question: what can the blind do in a restaurant?

Hi,

As a programmer, I started programming before I even knew my limitations. I 
didn't know what the blind can and cannot do when it comes to programming, and 
I frankly didn't care: programming was fun and I did it, and that was all that 
mattered.

However, when it comes to food-related stuff, for most stuff, you need to get training, 
and you need to know what you can do better than others, and what you're not so good at, 
and what you definitely cannot do, so that you can do what is called "targeted 
learning", where you slim down what you're going to learn to what you will 
absolutely need, and go for them.

My spouse who is completely blind likes to one day own a restaurant.
Even if she doesn't achieve this goal, she enjoys reading about food, learning 
how to cook, and so on. I've read that there are blind restaurant owners and 
chefs and so on, and this email is for those people.

Since you guys are much more experienced at this than I am, can you help her 
decide what to learn? What positions in a restaurant are blind-friendly, to 
coin a term?

Best,
Parham
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http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark I am using Siri to 
dictate this, so it may be a little rough. Anyway the tasks that I find 
difficult I don't do often, but they haven't gotten easier. As I work in the 
industry and experiment yes somethings to get much easier. But things like 
latte art I haven't done yet. Some of the tasks in a restaurant can be easier, 
if you use equipment that blind people can control. Our use a cash register 
program that works on an iPad and it works quite well with voiceover. It also 
has a really good back office that you get to online that can give you all of 
the reports. I do have a little difficulty working with her talking scale, 
because there isn't a good one that can do what I needed to do. So that task I 
leave for others most of the time. I do have a scale that talks, but it is not 
trade legal so I can't custom way anything. Also I may have a little trouble 
with presentation when I'm putting things on our plate, because I don't neces

s

  arily know The way that it might look the best. So, other people and assist 
me with that. When our coffee shop is really really busy, I generally stay away 
from the backside of the counter. I can be more productive talking to people 
about how blind people roast coffee, what kind of adaptations we had to make in 
the equipment so that I could use it, and anything about the rest of the 
difficulties of being in the restaurant I would say, the most difficult part 
about being a blind business person is all of the paperwork necessary to carry 
it out. The accounting the taxes the invoicing the receiving the shipping and 
anything else that you might think of that song for you druther really needs a 
pair of eyes to make it an efficient process. Therefore a lot of that work I 
have to buy. So in some ways it cost me more as a blind person however, there 
are sighted people out there that just can't add 2+17-5 because it just isn't 
something that they like to do there are sighted people out th

ere

   that don't even know what a screwdriver does. They just don't have it in 
them, or they don't have the interest. So we're not really any worse off as 
blind people. In 

Re: [CnD] CHICKEN DORITO'S CASSEROLE

[Holly Anderson via Cookinginthedark]

Hi, not sure what size I used, but its just the normal family sized bag you can 
get at most stores, a big bag. the size isn’t super important, as long as you 
get it big enough so that the chips can make 2 full layers.
HTH
Holly
> On Dec 4, 2015, at 7:16 PM, Charles Rivard via Cookinginthedark 
>  wrote:
>
> When you make this, what sized bag of chips do you use?  The incomplete
> recipe doesn't say.  Thanks.
>
> ---
> Be positive!  When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished,
> you! really! are! finished!
> - Original Message -
> From: "Sugar via Cookinginthedark" 
> To: ; "'Kimsan'" 
> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2015 1:46 PM
> Subject: [CnD] CHICKEN DORITO'S CASSEROLE
>
>
> CHICKEN DORITO'S CASSEROLE
>
> Ingredients
> 3 cooked and shredded chicken breasts
> 1 can of cream of mushroom (or your choice of cream of xxx soup)
> 2 cans of Rotel (tomato's with chili's)
> 1 (8 oz) bag of shredded cheese
> 1 bag of Dorito's
>
> Directions
> Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
> Combine the shredded chicken, cream of mushroom soup and Rotel.
> Crunch up 3/4 of the bag of chips and spread on the bottom of a 9x13
> casserole dish. Spread chicken mixture over the top of the crunched up
> Doritos. Add remaining Doritos over the top of the chicken mixture. Add
> shredded cheese over the top.
> Cook at 350 degrees until heated through and cheese is melted and slightly
> browned.
>
> ‘Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.’
> ~Blessed, Sugar
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Kimsan via Cookinginthedark [mailto:cookinginthedark@acbradio.org]
> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2015 11:44 AM
> To: Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org
> Subject: [CnD] recipe request
>
> Anyone have the recipe for dorito casoroll?
>
> Thanks.
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Re: [CnD] Stuffin Waffles?

[Earl Funk via Cookinginthedark]

Hey
I heard on the Rachael Ray Show a left over stuffing made into waffles.  I 
think fried chicken would go good with these waffles.  

Done made me hungry 
Thanks
Earl

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> On Dec 4, 2015, at 8:08 AM, Food Dude via Cookinginthedark 
>  wrote:
> 
>Howdy All,
> did something a little off the wall yesterday evening.
> I had some left over Apple Sausage Pecan Stuffing from Thanksgiving.
> It was frozen in the freezer...
> I thawed it out, added just a little water, just enough to get the stuffing 
> moist enough to stay stuck together when I squeezed it into a ball about 
> tennis ball size.
> Then I plopped it onto my hot waffle iron, and closed the lid!
> The result...a delicious waffle made of stuffing!
> I served the waffles along with some chicken noodle soup I made!
> Anyway, just a fun little idea with a different twist from my kitchen!
> Keep on Cooking!
> Dale Campbell
> Cooking In The Dark Show
> 
> 
> 
>> On 12/1/2015 4:33 AM, Parham Doustdar via Cooking wrote:
>> Hi Sandy,
>> 
>> My experience with squeezing of bottles is the same: I am not sure whether 
>> this squeeze made anything come out from the bottle, or I need to try again. 
>> Also, sometimes, some squeezes produce a big dollop of sauce, whereas 
>> sometimes nothing comes out.
>> 
>>> On 12/1/2015 1:53 PM, Sandy via Cookinginthedark wrote:
>>> Victoria,
>>> If alone, and in a rush, I use my fingers, of course, thoroughly washing
>>> hands first. I sometimes use those bottles where you squeeze out the mayo or
>>> mustard, instead of getting it out of the jar with a knife. that works
>>> better, and you can go all over the bread or roll and keep moving the jar,
>>> and squeeze, and it comes out pretty neatly.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Fear is just excitement in need of an attitude adjustment!
>>> -Original Message-
>>> From: Victoria E Gilkerson via Cookinginthedark
>>> [mailto:cookinginthedark@acbradio.org]
>>> Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2015 1:35 AM
>>> To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org; 'Tom'
>>> Subject: Re: [CnD] Question: spreading butter, jam, or cheese on a piece of
>>> bread
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Tom, I know what you mean and what you are saying.
>>> 
>>> I don't like to make a fool of myself and there have been many times I have
>>> not eaten the particular thing so I would not be made the laughing stock.
>>> 
>>> I can well remember in school when we used to get cartons of milk daily.
>>> Rather than be imbarrassed or get laughed at because I couldn't open the
>>> cartons, I would simply give my milk away.  Finally I had the courage to
>>> tell my mother and she showed me how to open the cartons.  She wasn't the
>>> most patient in those matters.
>>> 
>>> Getting back to your sandwich eilemma, if you are with friends that can see,
>>> you can always ask them to do it.  There is no shame in that. You don't
>>> have to go without the spreads you want on you're sandwiches because of
>>> feeling inadequate to be able to spread them.  If you are in a restaurant
>>> and you are alone, you can always ask the wait staff to fix it. Just like
>>> asking them to cut meat for you before they bring food to the table.
>>> 
>>> I hope this gives you some encouragement.
>>> 
>>> Victoria
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -Original Message-
>>> From: Tom via Cookinginthedark [mailto:cookinginthedark@acbradio.org]
>>> Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2015 1:26 AM
>>> To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org; 'Mike and Jenna'
>>> Subject: Re: [CnD] Question: spreading butter, jam, or cheese on a piece of
>>> bread
>>> 
>>> Oh, interesting.  You use your fingers for spreading?
>>> I have two questions.
>>> What about peanut butter?
>>> And, what if you wanted to do a sandwich and wanted both mayonnaise and
>>> mustard or something like that?  What are good ways to spread those things?
>>> 
>>> I find myself somewhat apprehensive when I'm with friends and they're all
>>> making their sandwiches or whatever.
>>> Sometimes I eat my sandwiches or toast plain because I don't always know how
>>> to do this.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -Original Message-
>>> From: Mike and Jenna via Cookinginthedark
>>> [mailto:cookinginthedark@acbradio.org]
>>> Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2015 8:08 AM
>>> To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org; 'Parham Doustdar'
>>> Subject: Re: [CnD] Question: spreading butter, jam, or cheese on a piece of
>>> bread
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I just get over myself wash my hands with soap and use my fingers for most
>>> things except peanut butter.
>>> 
>>> -Original Message-
>>> From: Parham Doustdar via Cookinginthedark
>>> [mailto:cookinginthedark@acbradio.org]
>>> Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2015 10:58 AM
>>> To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org
>>> Subject: [CnD] Question: spreading butter, jam, or cheese on a piece of
>>> bread
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> This has been bugging me for a while, so I wonder if anyone has developed
>>> their own personalized technique for this.
>>> 
>>> When I want to spread something on 

Re: [CnD] Question: what can the blind do in a restaurant?

[Becky McCullough via Cookinginthedark]

Do you sell gourmet coffee?
Becky
- Original Message - 
From: "Gerry Leary via Cookinginthedark" 

To: ; "Mike and Jenna" 
Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2015 8:13 AM
Subject: Re: [CnD] Question: what can the blind do in a restaurant?


Hello, I am Gerry Leary. I own the unseen bean coffee shop. It has two 
locations. I roast all of the coffee for it. I can do most tasks in the 
coffee shops well, and a few tasks clumsily. The tasks that I do clumsily or 
ones that I don't do often and haven't learned well. I do come from a handy 
background, because I was car mechanic for 40  years. I have been blind 
since birth, and have no idea what vision is. The tasks that are difficult 
for me to do in a coffee shop or things like spreading things on bread 
smoothly picking up only one slice of Finley sliced meat. I do these things 
with food gloves on because a it is a requirement, and be it gives the 
people confidence in the cleanliness of our shops.


Sent from my iPhone this time

On Dec 5, 2015, at 6:24 AM, Mike and Jenna via Cookinginthedark 
 wrote:


Hi,

I woulk in the restaurant filed. I find that their really isn't much she 
can not do. I found the only thing for me was decorating cakes and stuff.


-Original Message-
From: Parham Doustdar via Cookinginthedark 
[mailto:cookinginthedark@acbradio.org]

Sent: Friday, December 4, 2015 5:11 AM
To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org
Subject: [CnD] Question: what can the blind do in a restaurant?

Hi,

As a programmer, I started programming before I even knew my limitations. 
I didn't know what the blind can and cannot do when it comes to 
programming, and I frankly didn't care: programming was fun and I did it, 
and that was all that mattered.


However, when it comes to food-related stuff, for most stuff, you need to 
get training, and you need to know what you can do better than others, and 
what you're not so good at, and what you definitely cannot do, so that you 
can do what is called "targeted learning", where you slim down what you're 
going to learn to what you will absolutely need, and go for them.


My spouse who is completely blind likes to one day own a restaurant.
Even if she doesn't achieve this goal, she enjoys reading about food, 
learning how to cook, and so on. I've read that there are blind restaurant 
owners and chefs and so on, and this email is for those people.


Since you guys are much more experienced at this than I am, can you help 
her decide what to learn? What positions in a restaurant are 
blind-friendly, to coin a term?


Best,
Parham
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dictate this, so it may be a little rough. Anyway the tasks that I find 
difficult I don't do often, but they haven't gotten easier. As I work in 
the industry and experiment yes somethings to get much easier. But things 
like latte art I haven't done yet. Some of the tasks in a restaurant can 
be easier, if you use equipment that blind people can control. Our use a 
cash register program that works on an iPad and it works quite well with 
voiceover. It also has a really good back office that you get to online 
that can give you all of the reports. I do have a little difficulty 
working with her talking scale, because there isn't a good one that can do 
what I needed to do. So that task I leave for others most of the time. I 
do have a scale that talks, but it is not trade legal so I can't custom 
way anything. Also I may have a little trouble with presentation when I'm 
putting things on our plate, because I don't necess
arily know The way that it might look the best. So, other people and assist 
me with that. When our coffee shop is really really busy, I generally stay 
away from the backside of the counter. I can be more productive talking to 
people about how blind people roast coffee, what kind of adaptations we had 
to make in the equipment so that I could use it, and anything about the rest 
of the difficulties of being in the restaurant I would say, the most 
difficult part about being a blind business person is all of the paperwork 
necessary to carry it out. The accounting the taxes the invoicing the 
receiving the shipping and anything else that you might think of that song 
for you druther really needs a pair of eyes to make it an efficient process. 
Therefore a lot of that work I have to buy. So in some ways it cost me more 
as a blind person however, there are sighted people out there that just 
can't add 2+17-5 because it just isn't something that they like to do there 
are sighted people out there
 that don't even know