We wake up this morning to find about an inch maybe 2 inches of snow on the ground. We are all baffled because it was 70 degrees on Friday and now there's snow???
But we also discovered this morning that we messed up. I think we jinxed ourselves yesterday. The majority of the group took a field trip to the Montauk Lighthouse and to see the baby seals. While they were gone, Martin, Lisa and I were getting a lot done and discussing how successful we have been, i.e we haven't burnt anything, we haven't doubled the amount of any ingredient or put the wrong ingredients into another recipe (because, you know, we've been working an average of 3.5 recipes at a time). So yeah, we jinxed ourselves.
Dave and I woke up first and head to the kitchen to get it ready for the last 5 recipes. We slowly start to hear everyone waking up and gasping at the snow on the ground. Lisa enters the kitchen and sits down with me to go over the days' game plan. We have two dishes that require ham. Well, we ate all the ham! There is no ham left from that gorgeous rump we rubbed down the night we got here! Lo and behold, Chef Muff enters the conversation. We have leftover pancetta. Pancetta is ham. Disaster avoided.
So besides the two ham dishes we have today (ham and polenta spoonbread and ham lo mein) we have tortellini en brodo, we need to finish the lemon-gingersnap meringues, i.e. sandwich them, and finally, the popcorn.
Let the day begin!
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