SC - Turkey Day post-mortem

[Maggie MacDonald]

Greetings good gentles. On that wonderful Turkey Day, Maison deSteele (my 
household) put together a feast of such size!! I've seen smaller feasts at 
SCA events. It was put together as a "potluck" type meal. Christopher 
Thomas and myself did a 22 lb turkey, and for variety we also did a pork 
roast, a repeat of the recipe that had been done at the Calafian 
Anniversary Tourney Feast 2 weeks before (stuffed with chopped bread, dried 
fruits, poudre forte, etc. etc.).  We had TWO 10 lb pots of potatos show 
up, one was whipped with sour cream and chives, the other was a perfectly 
presented twice baked potato. Then we had the small (5 lb) pot of whipped 
yams (sweetened with raw sugar and poudre forte). Green beans with wine and 
butter were slide in, as was a pot of peas, just so there was something 
green to be had.  Oh yes, of COURSE, the fresh cooked cranberry sauce (the 
UNsolidified sort).  Giblet gravy was bubbled half the day too.
As if that wasn't enough, there was The Desserts.  Shoofly pie, 2 pumpkin 
pies, the greengage pie (also from the Calafian Anniversary Feast), and a 
GIANT flan prepared by Eilidh (seneschal of Calafia, and by the way, her 
flan is one of those mouth orgasm type things).
I'm glad I waited a day or two to think about this. I STILL feel full. The 
especially wonderful part was after cooking and kibbitzing in Christopher 
Thomas' kitchen all day, someone who was freshly arrived right before 
dinner packaged up ALLLLLLL the leftover food into nice portions for us. 
Someone else stepped in and did just about all the dishes (until people are 
literally kicked out you can never get _ALL_ the dishes done).
It was wonderful, it was warm, it was fuzzy. And, with all the extra adult 
type cooks there, it wasn't a terribly onerous task to get everyone served 
and then take care of the wreckage afterwards.

Yours in Service,
Maggie MacDonald.
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