[Sca-cooks] Valentine's Dinner

[Bronwynmgn at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/14/2004 8:52:07 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
ekoogler1 at comcast.net writes:

<<What did anyone else do for Valentine's Day?>>

No cooking!  My husband took me to our local dinner theatre for their 
production of Jesus Christ Superstar (actually the lunch matinee, as the dinner 
performance was sold out).

The food portion (buffet), except for the desserts, was not especially good.  
A very basic salad bar, which did have a nice redskin potato and green bean 
salad on it, and a collection of pretty typical over-cooked buffet style items 
including "cauliflower with roasted garlic" which had no discernable garlic 
flavor, creamed brussels sprouts, something called an asparagus quiche which one 
of my tablemates described as "sort of an egg custard with green beans in 
it", the obligatory mashed potatos and beef gravy, the obligatory lemon pepper 
fish (supposedly sea trout in this case), and something which was labelled as 
"BBQ pot roast" but which looked and tasted amazingly like overcooked pork roast 
with a very lumpy gravy.
The dessert table, on th other hand was impressive.  An apple walnut crumb 
cake that was moist, dense, and had visible chunks of apple in it, nice and 
spicy; carrot cake; angel food cake with strawberries; dutch apple pie; red velvet 
cupcakes; lemon meringue pie; a selection of sugar-free pudding and gelatin; 
and cookies, not to mention the ice cream sundae bar.  I also saw someone 
coming from the other dessert buffet with what appeared to be pumpkin whoopie 
pies.  These are a Lancaster County thing; two rounds of some sort of cake with a 
filling in the middle like a sandwich cookie.  The pumpkin ones are usually 
pumpkin bread with cream cheese filling, but it's far more common to find 
chocolate or even red velvet cake and vanilla cream.  Unfortuantely by that time I 
was too full of the 4 desserts I'd chosen to go find out if they were pumpkin 
whoopie pies :-)

The show, on the other hand, was quite good.  They get a lot of good talent 
at that theatre.  The guy doing Herod was hilarious - a big, burly guy, getting 
up and dancing with his chorus girls in a very funny, flaming manner.

Brangwayna