Love on the Back Burner by Barbara Oliverio

Author:Barbara Oliverio
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romantic comedy romance comedy chicklit cooking recipes catholic fiction
Publisher: Barbara Oliverio

I made a list for Cam and a list for myself, and we went our separate ways. Elliott went home to change, then to Tony’s to pick up the prepared trays, and returned to supervise the kids in setting up the buffet. I was hoping to delay telling Natalie about any change in plans until the last possible moment, to avoid burdening her with any undue stress, so I swore both of them to keeping all this on the down low.

When I returned to the kitchen, Cam had returned before me and—still dressed in his gym gear and covered with an apron that must have been left in the kitchen by one of the ladies of the church—was chopping lettuce and other vegetables for an impromptu green salad to augment the menu. I stopped for a moment to watch his technique. He had obviously been around a kitchen before, because his economy of motion with the knife was admirable. And where did he get that knife, anyway? It was a Gunter Wilhelm, not one of the standard knives provided in the church kitchen. I had salivated over a set of those professional blades.

“Hey there, doc, where’d you get that scalpel?” I tried to come off light and airy and ended up sounding like a bad lounge act.

He glanced up and smiled. “Oh this? Um, just a knife I had at home. I’m used to using it.” He returned to his task and shrugged.

At home? I doubted that. No one just randomly has a Gunter Wilhelm knife at home. Hmm.

“Okay. Let me unpack my bags, and we’ll get started on the chicken.”

“I pulled a couple of pans to be ready for dipping and dredging, but I didn’t put the flour in them. Also, I sliced lemons and juiced some, so we’re ready there. Oh, and I have a meat pounder ready to go for the chicken as well,” he said as he continued to chop, without looking up.

What the—? Where did some of these things come from? This kitchen didn’t have these hotel pans, and I know there weren’t two meat pounders, and there certainly wasn’t a lemon juicer. And where did those other large frying pans come from? Did Cam rob a restaurant supply house? And how was he so familiar with these techniques?

“Uh, Cam? … Cam? … CAM!” He stopped. “What?”

I gestured around. “All this?”

“Alexandria, we don’t have a lot of time here, and I need you to get to the point of what you’re talking about.”

I was dumbfounded. Cam Grayson, tech guru. At ease in the kitchen. Was my world turning upside down?

“My point is, Cam,” I started with exaggerated patience, “how do you know all of this?”

He shrugged as he tossed the salad ingredients by tossing the entire giant bowl without spilling so much as a leaf. “Oh, you know, I just picked it up.”

I grabbed his forearms.

“No, no, no. No one just ‘picks up’ the techniques of a professional chef. And this equipment—where did you get it? And this knife.

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