Cook Monkeys

Friday, we hosted a dinner party at the apartment. We tried to keep the total guest count below 20, as cooking for more than that many people is a much greater logistical nightmare than for less than 20.

At around 10pm on Thursday night, Matt started preparing vegetables and the curry-beef-potato dumplings. That continued until around 2:30am Friday morning. After all of us were finished with classes at 1pm on Friday, we came back to the apartment and started cutting chicken, coating the wings, making biscuits, boiling carrots, making pseudo-lo-mein, making lots of fried rice, etc…

People started arriving slowly. Bit by bit the party was assembled by people from art house, hogs, and physics, and there was way way way too much food for 19 people to eat:

• curry-beef-potato fried dumplings
• pseudo-lo-mein with bell peppers
• fried rice
• spicy chicken wings
• orange sugared sliced carrots
• garlic, thyme, and cheddar biscuits
• veggies in a black pepper sauce
• seasoned chicken pieces
• Dan’s hot sesame teriyaki chicken

I think I have a new respect for anyone who ever prepares a large meal for many people, such as a Thanksgiving event. There’s just so much time involved in the preparation, intermediate cleaning, cooking, serving, cleanup, and hostishness.

There are pictures of the event at http://www.flickr.com/photos/eggplant/sets/168734/.