SC - Potato salad - my mom's recipe OOP

[DianaFiona@aol.com]

Good Gentles of the Cooks' List:

I'm suffering from a bout of Insufficient Reluctance Syndrome...  I 
volunteered to do my group's newsletter, starting last month, while knowing 
full well I was catering an SCA friend's wedding in November.  While I can 
handle the doing; my thinking/planning/being creative time is pretty much 
gone; and I need your help with ideas to flesh out my menu.

Logistics:

Our audience will be about half mundanes, one-quarter SCAdians, one-quarter 
role-players/gamers.  Our bride and groom have requested "pretty close to 
period."  I don't have to worry about beverages, and there will likely be a 
mundane cake there (parents, you know... <G>)  There will be a sizeable 
handful of vegetarians; but probably no vegans.

We were asked to do a buffet, with a budget of roughly $3 per body (~150 
guests).

So far we have planned to do trays of cold sliced meats (roasted and sliced 
ourselves) with a variety of sauces (mustard, cameline, etc.), plus trays 
of fruit and cheese.  (The groom hates cheese, so this is probably the only 
cheese we will use.)  The bride's only allergies are OOP, so no worries.

Can someone suggest to me five or six period dishes (or perioid, if 
necessary) that I can transform into canapes?  I haven't seen the hall yet, 
so I am assuming that everything will have to be prepared in advance and 
served cold or room-temp, except whatever will fit in my chaffing dish.  I 
also won't have time to do more than one really fiddly complicated thing.

Thoughts so far:  Fungys, done with whole mushrooms, in the chaffing dish? 
 Ordering 300 tart shells from the cash-n-carry and making petite ember 
tartes?  Coneys in Cirop, done with chicken wings, in the chaffing dish?

Help!  Brain on overload!!!

Thanks in advance,

	- kat


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