Dayboard

[msmemory_archive]

Notes on the dayboard:

Overall a raging success - particularly due to the extraordinary efforts of Yeliz and her mother, as my serving/replenishing/setup team, and in advance by making chicken legs and boiled eggs. And Fu, cutting up fruit. And of course Constance, who always does far more than she should, but it's always valuable.

Constance's cheese also a serious success, even though it came out yogurty instead of mozzarella-y texture.

Budget blown all to Hades, haven't got all the receipts in yet, but running numbers in my head produces an unfortunately large number, which I can hopefully offset by "losing" a few receipts :)

Things we ran out of: black olives, the cute little dill pickles (gherkin size), grapes, lemonade. Things we oversupplied: marinated onions (again), apple pieces, butter, cider, onion soup. MUST remember that not everyone loves cider as much as I do. Should have bought 10 gal cider, not 20, but several more gallons of instant lemonade. Mushroom tarts v popular again, had several requests for leftovers to take home, but had none.

Comments

[tpau]

good thing i don't have any recepts for you then...

[jducoeur]

While I adore the marinated onions (and I talked to a few others who feel likewise), we should probably only make a few pounds of them for future events. And they're probably only practical for sideboards, where a few pounds can go for the whole event.

Lose the receipts for the parmesan cheese, since we wound up keeping much of it. (And I'm going to try to make use of at least some.) Ditto for the garlic. Any idea what we got from the donations jar? Probably wasn't a huge amount, but I consider that essentially an offset to the feast budget.

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

We shall gradually approach Zeno's Paradox on the onions: for Winter's Edge, I made 20 lbs., which was too many. So this time, I made 10 lbs., which was again too many.

I expect to lose receipts for (or cross off) anything we kept. (Excess Parmesan, butter, some garlic, 1 packet of pie shells....) We took about $12-15 in the donations jar, which will offset - I put it in its own envelope, so I know which money belongs to that.

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

But I do need your cider receipt, however.

Once again...

[napoleons-mommy.livejournal.com]

...it was a great experience. I always learn useful things from you when you let me help! You are patient, gracious, and have a sense of humor. Thanks for a wonderful memory!