SC - Worst feast ever...

[Elaine Koogler]

Lest anyone get scared away from doing Chinese feasts, let me assure you that, if
properly planned, they are not at all hard to do.  The big thing is "planned".
They do require that you find dishes that can be easily prepared for large
numbers...stir frys can be done using either a grill-top (done that several
times...works extremely well!!) or several large woks.  There are a number of
different kinds of dim sum that can be done ahead of time, then actually cooked on
the site.  For fried dim sum, oven frying works very well (put a thin coating of
oil on a baking sheet, put sheet in oven to come to frying temperature,  place dim
sum on sheet, brown on one side, then turn and brown on the other).  There are
really a lot of ways to do this.  Noodles are very hard to cook for large numbers.
We found that it works best to split them up into several smaller
batches...otherwise they tend to clump together in large glutinous masses.

It's also important that you try out each dish to find out what possible "gotachas"
there might be.

Kiri



Christine A Seelye-King wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 14:05:37 -0400 "Philippa Alderton"
> <phlip at morganco.net> writes:
> > Recently, I suffered what had to be the worst feast I have ever
> > suffered through.
> > Phlip
>
>         Interesting, the worst feast I ever suffered through also had a Chinese
> course, it was supposed to be "Marco Polo" themed, and the feastcrat
> decided to do it without noodles at all, which confused me.  She did not
> shop in advance, she did not expand her recipes, she counted on a
> household that had faded away to help her, and ended up with several
> totally inexperienced cooks helping her. I will never forget the
> 'sizzling' rice soup that went more like *thud* rice in lukewarm broth.
> Chinese is tough to get right in large batches, but that was not her only
> problem.  It has been a benchmark for me for more than a decade.  It was
> the only time I have ever gone back to the cabin and been glad there was
> pizza there to eat.  (Several folks had bailed early on, and hit the
> local Pizza Hut).
>         Christianna
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