The Men's Shed . group had its Xmas party yesterday, we rent premises at a retirement village, so we booked a section of the dining lounge for the show. We approached the villages kitchen staff to cater for the event & accepted their quite cheap offer.
The head chef, Cassie, is an amazing person, used to be a nurse but decided on a career change and applied for the vacant position after the previous chef retired. Cassie will be 23 in a few months, she's very talented in that kitchen. We had hot chicken pieces with chips (aka fries) & gravy plus three great salads (I kept going back for more of the potato &n egg one).
In addition there was the most spectacular fruit salad I've ever seen, and it was made without pineapple, which pleased me no end. This is because my tongue gets ulcers instantly upon exposure to that fruit.
She also supplied four cherry cheesecakes which the group of 34 folk quickly demolished. Cherries are in season at present & these were sweet & juicy, most impressive. We had a great time, although the Secretary & his wife were called away earlier to attend to their son who'd been seriously injured in a traffic accident earlier in the day.