One week!

[nopseud]

There is only ONE WEEK TO GO! YAY! I'm so excited!

There are still a few payments which haven't come though. If you haven't sent your payment off yet, or let me know when you'll be paying, it would be awesome if you could do that asap.

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[turlough]

Just one week!!!!

[saba1789.livejournal.com]

One tiny little week!!!! :D

[bubbleforest.livejournal.com]

Ack, yes, sorry! I'll go take care of that now. /o\

[ninjetti75.livejournal.com]

Anna, Pen recommended I liaise with you regarding the meal planning for Camp. It doesn't matter to me which day I cook supper, but I was curious as to what might be on hand. Pen thought my RicePlus suggestion sounded good, so...will there be rice on the shopping list? And some sort of meat to go with it? The kind doesn't really matter, as long as it's not fish. *g* Poultry, red meat, shrimp (well, pre-cooked shrimp, like salad shrimp; I've never actually cooked raw shrimp before), it doesn't matter to me. I was just curious what you planned on buying, as I generally take those two ingredients and add various spices to result in Cajun or Szechwan or whatever-style rice dish. I know a kitchen is supplied with the cottage, but what about spices/condiments? I can bring ginger & soy sauce (I think; if the soy sauce can be obtained in the UK, that might be easier), and those are my two "main" extras, but I was wondering what else I could anticipate being on-hand. On the other hand, I'm more than willing to improvise with whatever's handy when it's my turn to cook; I just want to make sure there's something there for me to work WITH. I wouldn't want to use up foodstuffs that someone else had earmarked for the specific dish they're contributing.

Oh, and as far as meat goes, if you buy some for my dish, it doesn't need a lot. I'd be making a rice dish with meat, not the other way around. A few ounces of meat per person would do fine, so one pound per 3-4 people at Camp (except chalcopyrite, since she's vegetarian) would be plenty.

I realize it's after 10pm for you, oops, but as long as you can respond to this before Tuesday evening, I'll be able to plan accordingly. And if you can't; I'll just have to fake it when it's my turn in the kitchen. I fake almost everything else I do, too, so no big deal for me. ;D

See you Friday!!!

[nopseud]

I'm sure we'll be able to buy whatever you need here -- there's a big supermarket only a mile or two from the cottage, including soy sauce and fresh ginger or cajun spices or whatever you need. Let me know how much rice you'll need, and I can pick it up. I doubt there'll be much if anything in the house kitchen.

Do you want vegetables to go in the rice?

[ninjetti75.livejournal.com]

Ah,a nearby market is a definite plus! As far as rice goes, the instant/minute rice I'm used to using will feed three people with two cups of rice, so...whatever that works out to, lol. However many people I'll be feeding should equal a few less servings than come in the box of rice, presuming the UK feels a serving is a half cup of uncooked rice. (Actually, does your packaging list number of servings? That's part of the Nutritional Information that's required on ours, but I think that's just a US thing...) Anyway, my giant 42oz/2+ lb. box says it has roughly 27 servings, so I'd use almost all of that to feed twenty people? That seems like WAY too much in my experience, but I've never cooked a rice dish for more than four people, so I'm not sure.

Just buy a family-sized box; I'll just be using it all up at once. If it turns out that's not enough, someone can run to the store for a small box more, right? And as far as veggies go, you can't go wrong with celery or water chestnuts, and I could probably throw canned tinned pineapple in, but it depends on what I actually end up making, so don't worry too much about it. It's not like I'm operating off a specific recipe that requires X amount of ____, or anything.

[nopseud]

I've never used instant rice, so I have no idea at all about volumes. Maybe it would be best if I just get as much ordinary rice as would work for however many people we are? I usually measure by volume and do about 4 fluid ounces per person, so I'll weigh that out and figure out how much is required.

[ninjetti75.livejournal.com]

Long as you'll give me a hand figuring out how to cook it. ;)

Or buy a little extra and I'll fiddle until I figure it out. *g*