Cooking For a Crowd

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I'm so nervous now!

I've NEVER cooked for more than say, 6 people before...

Our Community has a once a month "Grub Club", but I've never participated before, until now.

The theme for tomorrow evening is Finger Food... the first thing that came to my mind was, Spam® Musubi.
I was sitting here at my desk and a thought popped into my head, "maybe you should ask the hostess how many folks will be attending".
WOW!!
"It could be 20, it could be 30, it just depends", was the answer that I just got.
Well damn, I better get my act together, seeing as I have to take DH to two appointments in the morning.
So, I've got a pot of that ever present steamed White Rice going; I've already fried off two cans of lower Sodium Spam®; I have all of my equipment laid out on the huge kitchen island/counter ready to get into action.
Did I say that I'm nervous!!!?

I think that I would suggest to the hostess for future club meetings that RSVP be by a certain date so that everyone has that number of guest in mind in order to have enough to share with the entire class, don't you think?
 
OKAY!
*phew*

Got 8 cups of that ever present steamed White Rice cooked
Pan fried the 16 slices of Spam®
Cut up the Nori Sheets into 32 strips
Found a "Hawaiian Themed" serving tray, gave it a good wash & dry
All of the necessary hardware out, washed and at the ready

So all that I'll need to do tomorrow afternoon is nuke the Rice a bit, heat the Spam® back up with some Teriyaki Sauce and assemble.

Professor Bing in my case, said that Spam® Musubi and sit out at room temperature for up to 2 hours, safely, so I'll need to time it just right.
🤞
Wish me luck!
 
I did a trial run making musubi in my new mini loaf pan to gauge how easy this is going to be.
The first pot of Rice was, meh, not really to my liking but I figured I should try.
DH gave it a thumbs up and said, "these folks are all from the Mainland right? How are they going to no the difference between cooked Rice you like and what they make at home? It's fine! You're being too critical of yourself".
 
You're going to do just fine. You've done all the right things so far: selected a dish you know how to make backwards, selected a dish which is delish, asked how many guests there will be, done a trial run...now you just have to cook and assemble. Don't worry about how long it's going to sit out there; worry about how long it's going to take you to prepare it first. You don't want to be frantically assembling 20 musubis at 6.30pm.
Go, Girl!!!! You're going to knock them out!!:bravo::bravo::bravo::bravo:
 
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IT WAS A HIT!!!
 
This topic seemed as good as anywhere to put this.

We’re having a sort of remembrance potluck for my mom, in about 10 days’ time, and there’ll be about 20 people there, more or less.

Of course, everybody loves a good bring-and-share, so the texts are flying all around as to who’s bringing what. I have to laugh, because out of the 15 or so dishes that have popped up so far, it’s all family-get-together staples, and there is exactly one, lone, solitary vegetable dish…potato salad. :laugh:

Everything else is either heavy meat-centered (pulled pork, BBQ beef) or heavy dessert-centered (cheesecake, peanut butter pie, sheet cake).

Deviled eggs, of course, as there’d be a murder if no one brought deviled eggs.

Welcome to The Midwest, baby! :laugh:
 
My contributions to the above-mentioned potluck are to be a big chicken pot pie, an even bigger chopped salad, and a big batch of gingerbread cookies.

The only comments I’ve gotten back so far are:

“I don’t eat salad. I eat the things that eat salad.”

“I’ll just tell you right now if you bring that goddamn sissy salad shit I ain’t eating it. Sorry.”

:laugh:
 
TastyReuben said:
My contributions to the above-mentioned potluck are to be a big chicken pot pie, an even bigger chopped salad, and a big batch of gingerbread cookies.

The only comments I’ve gotten back so far are:

“I don’t eat salad. I eat the things that eat salad.”

“I’ll just tell you right now if you bring that goddamn sissy salad shit I ain’t eating it. Sorry.”

:laugh:
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Maybe I was originally from the Midwest.
Today in John Lewis Cafe I said I don’t suppose you have anything gluten free? The woman replied “umm lets see, the bacon and sweetcorn soup is gluten free and the frittata is also gluten free” whilst she pointed at a small sad potato cake. She saw my look and said “It comes with a side salad”
I replied “You lost me at the word ‘salad’ the soup sounds fine”
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
Maybe I was originally from the Midwest.
Today in John Lewis Cafe I said I don’t suppose you have anything gluten free? The woman replied “umm lets see, the bacon and sweetcorn soup is gluten free and the frittata is also gluten free” whilst she pointed at a small sad potato cake. She saw my look and said “It comes with a side salad”
I replied “You lost me at the word ‘salad’ the soup sounds fine”
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I'd be worried there was flour in that soup...what do they use as a thickener?
 
JAS_OH1 said:
I'd be worried there was flour in that soup...what do they use as a thickener?
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It’s in the majority of soups.
And plain old meat.
And anything else you can think of.
Because ‘wheat starch’ is a stabilising ingredient with good mouth feel, so they stick it in anything they can.
Nowadays potato starch is also popular with manufacturers (ie cheap) but what ingredients are in a product varies frequently so you always have to check.
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
It’s in the majority of soups.
And plain old meat.
And anything else you can think of.
Because ‘wheat starch’ is a stabilising ingredient with good mouth feel, so they stick it in anything they can.
Nowadays potato starch is also popular with manufacturers (ie cheap) but what ingredients are in a product varies frequently so you always have to check.
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That and some people just don't understand what the term really means. Even these days.
 
JAS_OH1 said:
That and some people just don't understand what the term really means. Even these days.
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They 97% don’t.
Some places are great at it some are awful.

Apparently England is one of the highest ranking places in the world for a coeliac to go on holiday (diet wise).
That is both gratifying and horrifying because it’s got a way to go!
 
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