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Lori cooks a meal for The Great One Lori Gysel is one of five head chefs selected to work in the Molson Canada Hockey House-- hockey headquarters at the Vancouver Winter Olympics. While in Vancouver, Lori will write about her experiences, and The Independent & Free Press will publish them along with Lori and Gerry's regular What's Cookin' feature (below). Well, things are really ramping up at the Hockey House. Today is Sunday, Feb. 21 and I just finished work. I am sitting here watching the last period of the men's Canada vs USA hockey game. So, given that there is such an exciting hockey game today, our venue is NUTS! However, the kitchen has fallen into a routine, so I was able to leave at a good time today. Today we prepared lamb, turkey, ratatouille, lemon potatoes, broccoli and tilapia for lunch (remember that I am only looking after the hot food-- there is tons of cold food coming out of the cold kitchen too). Then for dinner we 25 Independent & Free Press, Thursday, February 25, 2010 Lori Gysel & Gerry Kentner prepared individual chicken pot pies, roast pork, two different kinds of salmon, mashed potatoes, broccoli, peas, corn, cauliflower, carrots, roast chicken, brussel sprouts and polenta. To give you an idea of volume-- we cooked about 500 pounds of mashed potatoes. And that's just the potatoes! We also baked off about 3,000 hot hors d'oeuvres for afternoon snack. We've also been doing some really neat events in some of the smaller VIP rooms. We did a high-end cocktail party for Wayne Gretzky a couple of nights ago. I was one of the chefs that got to put the menu together for that party. We also did a really cool event for the International Ice Hockey Federation. They put together a cookbook on soups-- with each participating country contributing a recipe from their country for soup. So, there was a private party to launch the cookbook last week and we had to prepare 14 soups from 14 different countries for the party of 60 guests to sample. There were two other chefs responsible for this party; I only helped out at the very end with this one. We also spent a good chunk of time today preparing dinner for Men's Hockey Team Canada and their families/guests. This is the second time now that we've prepared their dinner. So, when the game is over tonight, they will all come over to the Hockey House and be joined by their families and friends for dinner that we made for them-- how cool is that! From the kitchen of the Molson Canadian Hockey House at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics-- have fun and keep cooking! Happy Szlachta 30 th HALTON LINEN OUTLET Decorating a bedroom can be expensive BUT not at Halton Linen INVENTORY CLEARANCE FEBRUARY 24-27TH Brand name bedding 4 DAYS up to 70% Off Mon-Fri. 10am-5:30pm Sat. 10am-5pm · Sun. 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