I then grabbed the green salad and started working on it by chopping it. Gregory watched me without saying a single word. As I finished chopping the salad, my timer went off. I took out my sheet pan with the potatoes and uncovered it. I went to the fridge to get the grated cheese and carefully covered each of the dishes with it before putting the sheet back in the oven for another fifteen minutes.
I took the trimmed chicken out of the fridge and started to sear it on all sides, then placed it on a new sheet that I was going to put in the oven. Everything was coming together like a perfect ball. The potatoes rang just as I was ready to put the chicken in the oven.
I had prepared one hundred and ten portions of tonight's meal in less than an hour. I had planned some for the employees and f
