Victorian Dinner 2007
Sep. 24th, 2007 01:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
storytimewithjoeBleary-eyed, and groggy, I slumped my way into work this morning. Walking through the cool and moist
Waking up at some latish hour on Saturday morning, I took advantage of the only relaxation time that I would see during the day. Having finished up the puddings at around
Gee… can ya tell?
Despite the frantic artiste-freakouts that I had earlier in the week, Saturday really went very easily. I was not worried about the cooking. I was more concerned about the vision. I had planned on the formality and fineness of a Victorian sit down dinner. Unfortunately, this particular mob wanted none of that. They wanted a catered party.
Le Sigh.
Oh well. I remind myself – they paid over $3 grand for this. They don’t HAVE to share my artsy vision. Heck, I’ll serve ‘em boil in bag lean cuisine if that’s what they want! (Le Gasp! Le Shudder!)
As always, the brilliant “Widow Harper” played beautifully, lending a wonderful ambience to the entire evening. I’m thinking that by next year, perhaps “poor Widow Harper” should remarry and become Mrs. McPlucket. Hmmmm…
After our last French maid, Babette, ran off with one of the footmen, we had to find a new maid. “Claudette” seems well-suited to the job. But I believe she has been sampling some of the bottles here and there. I will have to start marking them just to be sure…
“Jeeves” stood upright as the utmost of professional (if not a bit stoic) butlers. Excellent job, Jeeves… wot-wot…
And now for the foods. Once again, through the chaos of it all, we did not get photos of absolutely everything. But here are some of the finer points…
The flowers…
The “salat” course…
The main course…
The puddings…
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Date: 2007-09-25 02:32 am (UTC)And thank you again. For a Structure garment, I was quite happy and surprised by it.
To get one that's perfect, I'll have my wife knit me one. I can sew, but can't knit worth a damn.
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Date: 2007-09-25 02:35 am (UTC)I knit AND sew...that's why I'll never have a wife. (one of the reasons....) LOL
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Date: 2007-09-24 08:38 pm (UTC)Everything looked stunning.
You are absolutley brilliant.
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Date: 2007-09-24 08:40 pm (UTC)I'm glad to hear that everything went well, and the food looks fantastic!
And Claudette is cest magnifique in her attire! Ooh la la!
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Date: 2007-09-24 11:36 pm (UTC)Talk about a superlative job!
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Date: 2007-09-24 11:32 pm (UTC)I'm so hungry. ::taps foot impatiently and waits for lasagne to finish baking::
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Date: 2007-09-25 05:05 am (UTC)sssshivers
Date: 2007-09-25 01:20 am (UTC)I am so impressed.... I wanna pudding. Will you make my wedding plumcake?
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Date: 2007-09-25 03:27 am (UTC)But where are the spam in aspic? Nothing says Victorian like meat jello!
Looks fabulous, darling! Kudos to you all!