We had some close family friends over on Christmas Eve as well as on the 26th, the evening after Christmas.
Originally planned on serving up hors d’oeuvre based on left-over turkey from the evening as well as roast beef and a leg of lamb but Cold Storage managed to lose our orders and in the process of looking for it, managed to throw in an insult about how we should not be ordering things being collected on different days on the same receipt. Protests of how we should not have been issued one receipt by their staff for 2 different collection days went unheard.
After about a half hour of unfruitful searching in their cold rooms and storage freezers as well as a number of frantic calls to staff who were working the day before, the store manager offered a refund but I was already feeling too flabbergasted at the thought of having eight guests over with nothing on the table 4 hours before their arrival. Naturally, we rejected the refund and went with what they did have available at the store.. which necessitated changing our menu on the fly and running around the store like mad men, chucking ingredients and necessities into our shopping cart.
Eventually, we ended having essentially the same menu as Latreia’s visit a number of days back which was:
- Tomato Salsa Dip
- Assorted Bread-rolls (fresh from bakery)
- Roast Turkey
- Roast Ham
- Romaine Lettuce Salad
- Green Bean with Hazelnut salad
- Root Beer Granita Float
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Wanted to set out the new runners but given the amount of time we had, we went with what was used days before but were too lazy to clear. Added individual place settings (but omitted little menu cards) since we had a smaller number of people visiting.
Thankfully, no one noticed the last minute switches we made.. not that they knew what the original menu and plans were.
- adrian t
