Ride: 12 km
We had an early ride and a quick breakfast to start preparing the dishes for the party. We are catering for 25 people all up!! Wendy started by making the broccoli salad which had to be done in 4 batches as she had to make so much. She then sliced the sweet potatoes and a few potatoes for the potato bake and whilst she had a mandolin slicer, it was not hers and was not used to using it so the slicing took a little longer than it should have. She was still prepping the bakes when the rest of the family arrived. Sammy and Suz helped out too, Suz with the green salad. Suz's part of the menu was dessert and she had made it all at home and brought it all with her, so she did have a little more time. Sammy was doing hors d'oeuvres so needed the oven just when Wendy needed it to start cooking the potato bakes. Consequently, mains were served about 1.5 hrs later than expected. Dale cooked a whole rump in mum and dad's new Weber Family Q and it was perfect.
So, the menu was:
Hors d'ouevres: cucumber slices with dill/cream cheese topped with smoked salmon; baked polenta squares topped with somehting yummy, and Devils on Horseback with dates instead of prunes, stuffed with fetta and wrapped with proscuito.
Main: Roasted whole rump with sweet potato/potato bake, broccoli salad, green salad
Dessert:
individual cheescakes topped with mango and passion fruit; orange and poppy
seed cake; and chocolate mud cake
Tea/coffee
Sparkling, wine, beer and softies.
It was over by 6pm, and then the cleanup
began. Each person at the party used 3
glasses and enough cutlery to sink a small boat and we had to wash it all. Well, the dishwasher did a lot, but it was
not until 11pm that we were in bed! A
jolly good day was had by all.
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