Call for help

[bunnyjadwiga]

This is a tricky one.
Sarah and I are doing a medieval-Spanish-Jewish themed feast as a fundraiser for our synagogue.
For various reasons, we're doing it on Sunday November 14.
This is in Maywood NJ.
All the cooking has to be done in the Synagogue kitchen because we keep dairy kosher for the synagogue. We'll be pre-cooking Saturday night and cooking Sunday.
If any of my friends list can help out, I would really appreciate it-- and would feed you for free, of course!

The feast menu is:

A Medieval Spanish Feast

Take a trip back to the time of the Convivencia between Jews, Muslims and Christians in Iberia.
This served dinner will include a wide variety of pareve and milcheg dishes known in Castile and Catalonia, including typical Jewish cooking of the time.

50 seats available. $40/person for adults*, $10/under 13, free for children under 5.
*Remember, this is a fundraiser.

Drinks:
Lemon syrup drink
Clarea de agua
Plain Water
Wine by donation

First Service
Bread (Challah; made in-shul if possible)
Figs in the French style (stewed in wine)
Soft cheese
Dressed sallat of green herbs
Carrots carved into sticks
Olives
Vermillioned eggs (cooked with onionskin)
Mustard sauce with red grapes
Cumin Sauce

Second Service
Salmon in Casserole: salmon, bitter orange juice, pine nuts, mint, marjoram, almonds, saffron
Chickpeas with onion and honey
Spinach de Nola
Rice
Noodles with cheese for the kids (Potaje de Fideos)

Third Service
Food for angels (sweet ricotta cheese)
Quince Paste
Pizzelles (Wafer Cookies)
Grapes/Fruit as available.

Comments

[aeliakirith.livejournal.com]

Not close enough to help, but your menu looks fantastic (and is making me hungry). I hope it goes really well.

[anastasiav.livejournal.com]

wow.

I....

wow.

That's an amazing menu.

Also, I wish I'd known about eggs cooked with onion skin prior to my own little event here last weekend. Totally would have stolen that!

Thanks...

[bunnyjadwiga.livejournal.com]

But I'm confused. You did a much more amazing menu for your feast.

The really annoying part is that I couldn't use ANY of the documented JEWISH dishes-- there are five, and they are ALLLLLLLL meat dishes. Argh.

The president of the synagogue, who used to be a restaurant manager, made me cut out at least one dish from each course. As you can see, it's not *really* a three course meal in the SCA tradition.

I'm not even bothering to research any new dishes-- these are all dishes (well, except the noodles with cheese) that I did for the first two Conviviencias.

Now, the trouble is managing to sell the tickets!

[cypherindigo.livejournal.com]

That salmon dish looks wonderful! Is there a recipe?

[montuos]

I'm pretty sure I'm free that weekend... *kicks GCal again, hoping it will stop flaking already* If I am, and if you can let me crash with you, I'm all yours.

[bunnyjadwiga.livejournal.com]

That would be wonderful! Of course you can crash with us.

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

I'm fairly certain that I had no previous plans for that weekend. If you'd like my help and can put us up, I'm there.

[loosecanon.livejournal.com]

I will try to get a sub in at work, but no promises.

[orlacarey.livejournal.com]

How many are you cooking for? Any chance of crash space for 2? We can bring an air mattress...

[bunnyjadwiga.livejournal.com]

Orla-- I'm cooking for 50. We can certainly find you crash space! Thanks!

[orlacarey.livejournal.com]

Sorry - I don't think we can make it after all. Looking at the timing and the distance, with Tirzah having to get up at 4:30 am for work on Monday it's just too far. Hope you guys have fun with it though.

[lookingaround17.livejournal.com]

I am wandering through the friends' list of sca community, and wanted to comment. This sounds like a great idea, and I hope you get enough supporters. How lucky to have a kosher kitchen available to you!