SC - What is IKEA???

[Micaylah]

Hi

The last tasting dinner I did was done pot luck.  The intention of 
the feast was to teach newer cooks the in's and out's of volume 
cooking.  Everyone was assigned a dish to prepare and/or supervise on 
event day.  For the tasting dinner we handed out the recipes and 
everyone cooked their given recipe for the potluck.  No one incurred 
any major expense and it allowed the head cooks to check out the 
methods and techniques that everyone used and make any adjustments.
After the dinner we discussed each dish, corrected any problems and 
were able to make a final decision as to whether it was acceptable.

It was a fun evening.  Included in guest list were the Senechal, 
Autocrat and others immediately involved with the event.

I'm cooking EK 12th night and plan to do the same thing, this time 
asking members of Bhakails newly formed Cooks' Guild to contribute 
their cooking skils for the evening.  Of course, they don't know this 
yet :-).

Aemilia

> This is tricky, and I am thankful that my solution works well for me. It
> does not work well for others, tho. Here's what we do:
> 
> "tasting dinners" are $5.00 per head (what we usually get for a feast
> budget around here), and we get to cook the stuff first.  If we overshoot,
> the extra money can be spent on luxuries that the Barony may not want to
> foot. This moeny does not exist as far as the excheqeur is concerned. We're
> just a private group of food lovers.
> 
> For special dishes and sotelties at feasts, generally these are donated,
> unless really cheap. I bought the gold leaf for a gingerbread and marzipan
> soteltie, for instance. I don't want the leftovers going into the kitchen
> box and either getting ruined, stolen, or misused (our group has a long
> history of dissapearing supplies). High table gets what we get. Sometimes
> it's ornamentation is fancier. But they get what the rest get, and if they
> recieve something special, it has come out of someone's pocket, not the
> group funds. It's up to that person to serve it, as well, because I've got
> enough scheduling headaches dealing with special high table servers, etc.
> 
> Aoife
> 
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