Arisia Con Suite Volunteers and Bakers Needed!

[persis.livejournal.com]

We will have one fine con suite at Arisia this year, open 24 hours, with lots of great food, but we need your help. Volunteers pre- and at-con are highly desired, as the menu I am planning will be the sorts of things you might find at a well-stocked party... cheese, crackers, veggies and dips, meatballs, deviled eggs... hot hors d'oeuvres, chocolate mandala, theme hours, hot drinks as well as cold... juice as well as soda... and, of course, chips (in moderation).

Please let me know what hours you are willing to work, as I'd like to put together a schedule before Friday the 13th (please) as I am also running Fast Track/aka Kid's Programming (!) [Yes, I am slightly crazy], but I have an able assistant, Kathleen, to do the at-con management... E-mail adresses and/or cell numbers would be great.

One of the plans was to have freshly baked cookies, but alas, there is no oven in the Garden Suite. So, I am looking for people to bake cookies and general baked goods to bring to the con. All such items need to be accompanied by an ingredient card, as there are people with allergies and intolerance's, and we need to consider all attendees. Please reply here, or send me an e-mail so we don't have a plethora of one kind and a dearth of another... :-)

Edit: 12.27.05 11:23 PM Breakfast items that are baked need to not be primarily egg based... Food Safety rules supreme in this year's con suite.

x-posted to my journal, arisia

Comments

[larksdream]

While I'm all about nummy food, this seems like it would raise some food safety concerns, especially with egg foods.

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Fact_Sheets/Basics_for_Handling_Food_Safely/index.asp

[persis.livejournal.com]

IME, baked goods like cookies and things where eggs are not the main ingredients are generally OK. I should go back and revise that breakfast food to *BAKED* breakfast foods that are not primarily eggs. Thanks for the pointer and need for clarification. :-) Food safety is high on my list.

[cogitationitis.livejournal.com]

We use Egg Beaters, which are pasteurized. Safe, even raw.

[larksdream]

Yeah, baked stuff should be fine (though frosting with eggs can be bad)-- I was concerned more about the deviled eggs. Which are nummy, but... :)

[persis.livejournal.com]

Deviled eggs will be served on a platter on ice... and will not be left to sit out for hours and hours... they;ll be long gone before it gets to that point. In fact, having a card with the time the item was put out on it would be a nifty idea...

[larksdream]

Ooo, yes, I would find that reassuring. Though you're probably also right that they'll go pretty quickly. *G* Mmm, now I'm craving...

[persis.livejournal.com]

well, Talis and I are planning attending the VFW dance on Thursday...

[bobquasit.livejournal.com]

Just curious, will the same standards apply to the Green Room, too?

The meatballs they've had there for the past 4-5 years probably saved my life...particularly last year, during the blizzard. :D

[persis.livejournal.com]

Not sure what you mean.. I've not been in the Arisia Green Room... as staff for the last few years, I've been stuck in Fast Track, and use the staff den. I am not sure what the Green Room has planned (too busy with Fast Track and Con Suite, as well as the rest of my obligations that are not con related).

The gist of the Con Suite is that it will have finger food; be a better than the usual con suite, but not meant to feed the entire con for the weekend, think sustanance to hold you over until you can get a full meal somewhere, or to tide you over til breakfast... Think of a good party with lots of good things to eat easily, or mid-western con suite.

[bobquasit.livejournal.com]

(smack self on forehead) Of course different people run the Green Room!

Sorry, I'm not thinking well today.