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Post-Weekend Fallout Report.
16 years ago
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So, First I should probably warn you this probably going to be a touch wordy and long, so you all have warned...
So this weekend was the annual Winter Bash event with a group used to hang with back in the day called Amtgard. They are an old LARP group that I ran with several years back that I still help from time, usually through cooking and whatnot for their bigger events and campouts when requested. Winter Bash, as the name implies is their big winter seasonal event to round of the quarter with fighting, camping, and lots and lots of drinking.
This time around my long time friend Josh, and yours truly were going in to cook a very small meal for a cooking competition, and a larger dinner for roughly 100 cold starving geeks.
The cooking competition went rather well. Most of the participants ended up flaking out because of the weather and lack of facilities, but luckily one of them decided to stick it out. Josh decided that we were going to be servingHazelnut Risotto, served with some Ratatoullie on top of thin-cut apple wood smoked steak. While we aren't sure how we scored, I have a looming suspicion we won that round quite nicely despite of a few small snafus.
Afterward, we visited with some old friends and poured a few beers down our gullets. I turned in a little early, and from what I gathered Josh stayed up rather late and drank himself silly, I know this because he tripped over me when he made his way to bed. :p
The next morning, I woke up after a nice long deep sleep at about 10AM after some of the other people bunking with us in our yurt stirred and woke us up.
When we were all up and ready to go, we hopped in the car and went to town for some last minute supplies for the nights meal. Josh, still being rather hung over after the evening before, thinks a good lunch will help him get over the pain and grogginess of it all, so we stop off at a pancake house out in the next town over. We sit and chat there for a while, eat our lunch and whatnot... Then its suddenly two o'clock and we are late!
We zip back, throw the veggies in the pot, cook em, reheat the meat, drain the broth, and started feeding folks just a couple minutes behind schedule. People were cold and wet from the rain, and a warm hearty roast beef sandwich with piping hot broth and veggies on the side seemed to really win them over.
Shortly after we finished serving them everyone, court came to order. (Court being the term for regional level holding announcements, awards, and political nonsense.) Unexpectedly enough, both Josh and me ended up receiving service awards for our work that weekend.
Naturally once that broke down, it was off for drinking for the masses while I cleaned up the mess from all the food and whatnot. And Once all was cleaned up and packed away, It was off to say goodnight and goodbye to everyone. There was plenty of drunken shenanigans that ensued in the following hour while we went about chatting and saying our farewells, which I won't go into...
...Though having a drunk guy sit in my lap and put his arm around me to tell me how much he enjoyed my meat was... Simply wonderful...
*cough* And that is about it really. We packed up and left the site eventually and made it back in the wee hours of the morning.
Also, if this boring tidbit of my life was interesting enough for you, you can also follow me on Twitter with all the meaningless bits of text I put there. Though, if I don't know you, or you don't introduce yourself, don't expect me to follow you. :p
With that, its time to catch up on comments and submissions now...
So this weekend was the annual Winter Bash event with a group used to hang with back in the day called Amtgard. They are an old LARP group that I ran with several years back that I still help from time, usually through cooking and whatnot for their bigger events and campouts when requested. Winter Bash, as the name implies is their big winter seasonal event to round of the quarter with fighting, camping, and lots and lots of drinking.
This time around my long time friend Josh, and yours truly were going in to cook a very small meal for a cooking competition, and a larger dinner for roughly 100 cold starving geeks.
The cooking competition went rather well. Most of the participants ended up flaking out because of the weather and lack of facilities, but luckily one of them decided to stick it out. Josh decided that we were going to be servingHazelnut Risotto, served with some Ratatoullie on top of thin-cut apple wood smoked steak. While we aren't sure how we scored, I have a looming suspicion we won that round quite nicely despite of a few small snafus.
Afterward, we visited with some old friends and poured a few beers down our gullets. I turned in a little early, and from what I gathered Josh stayed up rather late and drank himself silly, I know this because he tripped over me when he made his way to bed. :p
The next morning, I woke up after a nice long deep sleep at about 10AM after some of the other people bunking with us in our yurt stirred and woke us up.
When we were all up and ready to go, we hopped in the car and went to town for some last minute supplies for the nights meal. Josh, still being rather hung over after the evening before, thinks a good lunch will help him get over the pain and grogginess of it all, so we stop off at a pancake house out in the next town over. We sit and chat there for a while, eat our lunch and whatnot... Then its suddenly two o'clock and we are late!
We zip back, throw the veggies in the pot, cook em, reheat the meat, drain the broth, and started feeding folks just a couple minutes behind schedule. People were cold and wet from the rain, and a warm hearty roast beef sandwich with piping hot broth and veggies on the side seemed to really win them over.
Shortly after we finished serving them everyone, court came to order. (Court being the term for regional level holding announcements, awards, and political nonsense.) Unexpectedly enough, both Josh and me ended up receiving service awards for our work that weekend.
Naturally once that broke down, it was off for drinking for the masses while I cleaned up the mess from all the food and whatnot. And Once all was cleaned up and packed away, It was off to say goodnight and goodbye to everyone. There was plenty of drunken shenanigans that ensued in the following hour while we went about chatting and saying our farewells, which I won't go into...
...Though having a drunk guy sit in my lap and put his arm around me to tell me how much he enjoyed my meat was... Simply wonderful...
*cough* And that is about it really. We packed up and left the site eventually and made it back in the wee hours of the morning.
Also, if this boring tidbit of my life was interesting enough for you, you can also follow me on Twitter with all the meaningless bits of text I put there. Though, if I don't know you, or you don't introduce yourself, don't expect me to follow you. :p
With that, its time to catch up on comments and submissions now...
