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msmemory_archive ([personal profile] msmemory_archive) wrote2009-04-08 03:29 pm

Big dinner notes

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.
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[personal profile] jducoeur 2009-04-12 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
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.