Anyone who has picked up a bite to eat as of late during the Saturday community markets at the Red Barn will have had a taste of Cassy Attfield can do.
Attfield is the one busy in the Red Barn kitchen, preparing tasty morsels such as shredded chicken tacos and barbecued pulled-pork sandwiches for shoppers and people who just stop in grab a bite to eat. Attfield says running the community market kitchen has given her an opportunity to meet and chat with people, see what’s going on in the community and showcase her culinary abilities – which are available for hire through her new business, Every Little Thing.
“It’s a catering company so I do weddings and big events and stuff like that, but I also do personal chef stuff where I go into people’s homes and cook for them for special events, date nights and things like that,” says the amicable Attfield. “I just like to customize menus and do things so people around here get what they want… I like to work with people for their weddings and events. It’s such a beautiful area, there’s so much going on all the time, I thought it was something I could do.”
Attfield says she has been cooking in some professional capacity since she was in high school, and is graduate of the SAIT Culinary school in Calgary.
Referring to herself as “personal chef,” Attfield says she enjoys working with her clients, developing specially tailored menus with items sources locally.
“I pride myself on making everything and having everything as local as I can make and as fresh as I can,” says Attfield, who operates a commercial kitchen (no storefront) in the Parkland Mall.
Asked what it’s like to be her own boss, Attfield says she loves it.
“I think that I have the opportunity to be a lot more creative because it’s my own business, and I get the opportunity, I guess it’s not necessarily more time with my family but a different kind of time with them, because I take on what I take on and I know when I’m going to be gone and I know when I’m going to be home,” says Attfield.
For more information, visit the Every Little Thing page on Facebook, or contact Attfield at 250-515-0432, or by email at c.attfield@outlook.com. Of course, people may also meet and eat with Attfield at the community market, open Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Red Barn.
