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Notes for next time:
Drinks in pitchers. Surely we can whittle down our offerings to two or three cocktails in addition to wine so [livejournal.com profile] jducoeur is not bartending individual drinks but can premake a pitcher of 8 poma-tinis. Also if making individual drinks, a second or third shaker would be handy.
More meat. Also perhaps a volunteer to carve who's better at it than I and would get more yield. I feel bad that we seem to have run out of meat, especially since the joints still had more that could've been cut.
Bake the potatoes longer/hotter. Overcooking is not as big a crime as under, with taters.
Salt & pepper shakers. D'oh. Just because *I* eat low-sodium....
Salad dressing in a gravy boat or a glass bottle.
Find the dadgum cheese spreaders, too. Though butter knives sufficed.

Date: 2009-04-08 07:54 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] dsrtao
Gravy boats look nice... until they get passed all the way down the table. Not only do they spill easily, but they're hard to control. Perhaps a nice cut-glass cruet?

Date: 2009-04-09 05:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freya46.livejournal.com
Or something like the no-drip things you find on tea pots?

Date: 2009-04-09 03:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] new-man.livejournal.com
I would have offered to carve -- or volunteered my apprentice ;-) -- but I didn't want to step on anyone's toes. Next time, please feel free to ask me.

Date: 2009-04-09 03:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hfcougar.livejournal.com
I hate to be wasteful and/or encourage more dirtied dishes, but little plates or something stiffer than napkins for holding our cheese/crackers/etc. would have been helpful.

This might have only been an issue for me because a. I am clumsy and b. my hair was eating me.

Date: 2009-04-09 02:14 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] laurion
Carving is certainly a task easily handed off. You had at least one knife expert and two surgical practitioners on hand. Plus a spate of gentlemen who are all likely happy to express prowess at the time honored art of taking sharp things to dead animals. *grin*

Date: 2009-04-12 07:18 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] jducoeur
To be fair, I was quite enjoying the bartending, since it's a new artform for me. But with this big a group I was clearly too much of a bottleneck -- I suspect that a dozen is about the largest I can serve individual drinks for.

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