SC - On a Tangential, OT Note - Was: Potato salad+pasta sala

[James Gilly / Alasdair mac Iain]

In a message dated 08/08/1999 8:43:52 AM Eastern Daylight Time, troy at asan.com 
writes:

<< 
 I'd recommend serving them at something like room temperature, if
 possible, rather than chilled-right-out-of-the-cooler.
 
 Adamantius
  >>
    I'd certainly prefer to do so, and it might end up that way if folks 
serve their plates and let then sit a few minutes before eating...... But 
since I'm going to have to have the food available over a long period of 
time--probably a couple of hours (This will be served at the side of the 
fighting field, and His Majesty and the other fighters may not eat until the 
Tourney is over)--in the suffocating heat we get here in the South in August, 
I don't dare leave the dishes sitting in the sun. I'll either have them in 
ice chests until requested, or have ice in a secondary container under the 
plates the perishables are on. 
    While I'm on the topic, does anyone have any particular suggestions for 
finger foods for this kind of set up? I'm trying to stick mostly to late 
period Western foods due to the personas of our current Monarchs. So far I 
have one of the "Deviled" egg recipes (The one with sorrel), a chicken pasty, 
or the Icelandic Chicken, perhaps a pork pasty as well, fruits, raw veggies, 
bread, olives and/or Compost, marzipan (either shaped and colored as fruit, 
or printed and flattened), gingerbread (Definitely printed, since I've stamps 
that'll work), Digby's Excellent Small Cakes, lemonade from one of the syrups 
in the Miscellany, and ice water.
    This menu is pretty well OK, I guess, but I'm open to other ideas, too! I 
*would* like to have a "dip" for the veggies, if anyone has a period one to 
offer. Oh, and Her Majesty is lactose intolerant, so I'm avoiding anything 
with milk or cheese, to keep from having to be sure she doesn't get the wrong 
dish by accident...........

    Thanks, all!

                Ldy Diana
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