How cooking works at Seven Seas
Asparagus wrapped shrimp with fried mint leaves
At Seven Seas, we believe that eating well on vacation is a key part of relaxed beach enjoyment, and we treat it as a fun activity we should make time to do right. For this reason, we like to have a share member volunteer to cook Saturday night dinner each weekend. Other meals may have assigned cooks or will be created in a collaborative, yet ad hoc manner.
We understand that for many people the thought of preparing a meal for 18 people is scary, but don’t worry–you are better at it than you think and you will not be alone. Our head chef recruits their sous from the group and we ask for one clean up director volunteer as well. This way you always have a few heads together and usually amazing creations come out.
How do I sign up to cook?
Once you have paid your deposit, you can sign up for a weekend to be the meal maker. Shares can sign up for any meal on their weekends, Saturday dinner being the most elaborate. The cooking schedule will be posted on the blog and calander app each week as well as on the Activities Board on the bulletin boards in the hallways. Whoever is cooking merely needs to email us the ingredient list they will need by Wednesday before their weekend and the items will be added to our Thursday stock-up order.
I don’t cook, what now?
Everyone can cook, even if they’re not confident about it. Speaking from experience, after spending many seasons in a cooking oriented sharehouse, you can improve you skills dramatically by acting as sous-chef for others, and you may even find out that it is fun! We recommend taking opportunites to volunteer as sous chefs for the head cook for dinners on you weekend and you will likely learn techniques and recipes that are easy, delicious, and extra satisfiying, since you hand a hand in making them. If you absolutely flatly refuse to cook anything ever, we ask that you make it up in the clean up department. Freeloaders get a bad wrap (people notice, believe me) and the karmic wheel sees all.
