[Steppes] Wordfame

[Gail]

sob............and I missed the good food......

on the other hand....there was the very first winning tie in the Breeder's
Cup ... run in California today....and I got to see it....

Galen

----- Original Message -----
From: "Morgan Cain" <morgancain at earthlink.net>
To: <steppes at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 4:19 PM
Subject: [Steppes] Wordfame


> I want to tell of the assistance I had with the lunch at Fall Court.
>
> First, because she helped me in advance, was Nzingha, who spent many hours
> at my house on Friday.  Although she had never made pies before, she fell
to
> with a will (and a large, sharp knife), peeling and chopping fruit for the
> filling and rolling crusts.  One of the fruit pies served at lunch was the
> very first pie she had ever made!  Nzingha also helped me to scrub, rinse,
> and bleach two of the Warlord coolers so that I could use them to
transport
> the food to site.
>
> Second and third are Alina and Ingwulf.  Alina contacted me in advance to
> offer assistance and appeared as soon as I arrived on site.  It was she
who
> constructed the salads and did a number of other serving-type items,
making
> sure all was arranged, and it was in her capable hands that I left the
extra
> food for service at the potluck.  Ingwulf was our "big strong young man,"
> opening things, helping with the salads, and generally doing whatever he
> could.  I commend him also for voluntarily washing his hands before he
> touched the food, because he told us that he had been petting dogs and
would
> not touch the food until he had washed.
>
> Thanks also to Lady Francesca, who sliced a lot of bread and pounds of
> cheese.  And HL Esther, who let me "do lunch."
>
>                                ---= little cooking Morgan
>
>
> PS:  Enough people asked for the meat pie recipe, I will try to figure out
> how to explain it and post to the list.
>
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