campsparkle | Camp Sparkle - the Arrangements!

Part One: Food

Thank you so much, everyone who volunteered for kitchen duty! We shall in consequence have a nicely varied menu.

I've devised a probable roster for cooking dinners. Lunches, mostly, will be the 'graze on bread, fruit and general Stuff' variety.

Friday
the more-or-less traditional shepherd's pie, and variations, with Death Cake (and/or fresh fruit) to follow -

pensnest

Saturday
Lunch -

msktrnanny and

rikes offered salad and grilled cheese, so we'll take them up on that
Dinner - curry (ie Traditional British Food!) -

nopseud
followed, we suggest, by those yummy sounding peppermint chocolate muffins by

adelate Or, we can have those on Sunday, which is her *actual* birthday, and have ice cream instead on Saturday night.

adelate, it's your call!

Saturday, incidentally, will be N's Official Birthday, because

bubbleforest has to leave on Sunday.

Sunday
Breakfast will be Mega Cooked Breakfast, and if anyone has room for lunch, the usual grazing fare will be available.
Dinner - I suggest this is probably the best day for the vareniki dumpling thingies enticingly offered by

valya22 and

saba1789

Monday
Dinner -

ninjetti75's 'something with rice'

Tuesday
Dinner

chalcopyrite's spaghetti with sauce - I think this is the Chatsworth day, so lots of us will have indulged in Cream Teas of Distinction

Wednesday
Dinner
It'll be the day of our Alton Towers visit, so I don't know whether it's reasonable to ask

ihearthings_ii to produce both lasagne and the Danish dessert she volunteered... Personally, if it's a choice I vote for the dessert and will be happy to deal with the lasagne, as I'm likely to be less knackered from Alton Towers than you lively young people, harrumph.

Thursday
Dinner at the pub! We can therefore polish off most of the food in the place at lunchtime.

An alternate plan, if those involved in cooking would prefer it, would be to eat at the pub after one of our day trips and have the spaghetti or lasagne thing on Thursday. Give it some thought. Indeed, if anyone has a good reason to switch stuff around—you won't be going on one of the Outings, and can cook on that day, for instance—do comment and we'll see if we can work out a deal.

Note to Chefs: don't be scared of cooking for many.

nopseud and I have coped. And we'll be around to help if, uh, if we can.

Anyone who's willing to be a Kitchen Minion (I know lots of you have offered), please volunteer in person to the Head Chef Of The Night!

Re: Ingredients
If you need anything which you're not sure you'll be able to obtain in a regular UK supermarket, please liaise with

nopseud to find out whether you'll need to bring it with you. She and I can probably cover a fair range of dried herbs and spices, too.

PS If I'm remembering the place correctly, the big dining table is right next to the kitchen, so if we're sitting round the table having a discussion of something, there's no need for the chefs to miss out.