storytimewithjoe | Entries tagged with victorian dinner

Bleary-eyed, and groggy, I slumped my way into work this morning. Walking through the cool and moist Santa Ana business district, memories of the weekend flashed before me like the speeding cars franticly rushing to jobs elsewhere.

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 midnight the night before, I had Victorian cooking fast and furious on the brain. Round about noon, Red showed up at the door and the cooking (and drinking) began. Joined later by CarolAnn and her deadly giggly-juice, we were feeling no pain in no time.

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…