State Staff Training

I work with some fantastic people, and it's always nice to get together in Boise with the staff from all of the offices.  After a full day of training, we headed to Sur la Table, a restaurant supply store and demonstration kitchen, for an Iron Chef competition/dinner.  We made a delicious spinach salad with Parmesan crisps, roasted rosemary potatoes, and a delicious steak with a sauce and compound butter.

Margaret Ballard, Bob Ford

Margaret, Bob, Sally, Mitch Silvers, Roy Hansen

My picture may not look great, but the steak was amazing!  For dessert we made molten lava cakes. Mmmmm.  My group won the overall competition and became the Iron Chefs!  Our team name was You Kill It, We Grill It.

Karen Roetter, Jamie Novis, Lindsay Nothern

Bryan Ricker, Brian Raybon, Courtney Lehosit, Farhana, Janice Wilcox

During the staff training we celebrated Bob Ford's retirement and also had a White Elephant Christmas gift exchange.

 

This is what I won in the gift exchange. 

Now that's what I call a White Elephant!  Our Senate trainer for the meetings was from Virginia, and she said she had never seen ammo as a gift as a Christmas party and was very surprised that two women fought over it!  There were two boxes given away and the other one went to the 19 year old intern in the office.  We told the trainer, "Welcome to Idaho! We do things a little differently here!"