SC - "I lived... I've got to find out what to do now!"

[KKimes1066]

kat wrote:

> > The feast started 1/2 hour later than it was "supposed to" which
> > merely whet all appetites.  The kitchen I hear was a bit inadequate-<snip>
>
> Inadequate is not the word.  I knew beforehand (thank the Gods) that there was only one oven and one 4-burner stove; but even with the preplanning and prepping we were able to do on Friday, it was still a logistical nightmare.

[greatly snipped]

Shucks, we'd give anything to have a site with an oven and a 4 burner stove......We've now done two 40-50 person feast out of a 6 x 6 concession stand which electricity and a fridge but nothing else, and two 100 person feast at a primitive campsite without building, ramadas, tables or running water or garbage service......I'm not sure we'd know how to cook without pre cooking
almost every thing before hand, hauling out 100 or more gallons of water, several large BBQ's and having such disasters as the cakes that sank in the ice chest [they drained the water off and rebaked them one at a time in Lyddy's camp trailer oven and dubbed them 'shipwrecked cakes'] the time the guys sat the dry ice on top of the lettuce for the salad....the time we *forgot*
to serve the pea salad and ate it next day for lunch, the time I was heralding court for TM at dusk, the fire tender having sent word to make it as long as possible, the dinner wasn't ready yet and His Majesty telling me to hurry up it was getting dark and everyone wanted their dinner... the time, well I suppose we all have disasters, being a good autocrat tho is planning for
them and hoping they never.... Sounds like you pulled off a wonderful feast.

The clean up thing? well, I guess we've been lucky, we're a tiny shire and people from other places often have pitched in to help us out, once three ladies from  came over and seeing that Lyddy and I were dead on our feet insisted we sit down while they washed the dishes *and* sang songs and told jokes and entertained us.  Last year at Crown Tourney a couple of Knights and
several squires came in and washed dishes for about 3 hours.


Maistreas Mairi Broder,
Shire of Nathair Airgid, Atenveldt

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