Big dinner notes

[msmemory_archive]

Notes for next time:
Drinks in pitchers. Surely we can whittle down our offerings to two or three cocktails in addition to wine so 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.

Comments

[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?

[freya46.livejournal.com]

Or something like the no-drip things you find on tea pots?

[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.

[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.

[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*

[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.