Annual Rehab BBQ

Last Thursday we successfully held our annual lunchtime BBQ for the Rehab Departments.  And we again joined forces with our neighboring Asante Work Health buddies to make this twice as enjoyable.  Even within our own Rehab departments its often hard to get to know one another, so this was a welcome opportunity to sit next to someone we barely know and make friends.  Personally, I got some instruction in gluten-free eating and photography tips.

The weather was perfect, the food was fabulous, and attendence was great.  We cooked about 15 veggie burgers (grilled by yours truly), and around 80 beef burgers (grilled by the out-of-dress-code Mike M.), along with some excellent desserts, salads, dips, and so on.  Our CEO Kent Brown attended and joined our collection of happy staff from both inpatient and outpatient areas.

Our little after-lunch review concluded that we'd finally hit the mark on how to put this all together.  We're already making plans for next year.

Special thanks to Angela K and Carrie W for doing all the legwork to make this come off without a hitch.  Angela also reports that our leftover burgers were donated to Asante's Angel Team, and will be given to needy employee families.  Approximately 20 of our burgers have eased some stress for our own extended family of employees!

For those who asked, here's the recipe for my wife's Korean carrot salad:

This recipe is from the Sunset Oriental Cookbook. You can use the dressing over any appropriate cooked or raw vegetable. I use it for carrot salad.

This amount of dressing is for one serving of vegetables (1 serving = one carrot) :

1 Tablespoon sesame seeds
1 T. soy sauce (I use the low salt variety by Kikkomon)
2 teaspoons sesame oil
1 t. sugar
1t. vinegar (I use apple cider vinegar. You might try using rice wine vinegar that can be purchased at an Asian food store.)
1/16 to 1/8 t. ground red pepper (cayenne)
One green onion (scallion) for every serving of vegetables you make.

Grate the carrot. Chop the onion. Mix everything together and serve. Enjoy!