This was a delightful year at the BACDS Playford Ball. An annual big fancy event for English Country Dancers, there are Playford Balls held at different times in many locations, and the local one like most features a band break mid-evening for a potluck feast of nibblies. After all, these are serious dancers out there playing hard, and work up an appetite!
There's a good balance between savories and sweets, which pleases more than the Atkins crowd. This year's food and decor (and puns falling like pachinko balls from the caller) was parlor games. This means that aside from the wonderful decorations (an abstraction of badminton rackets all up one wall and a huge checkers set on another wall, and carboard cutout figures with a badminton set up on the little stage we mere decorate along the narrow wall, all the foods that are normally made for events like these were given thematic names. It also meant that a few new ideas were considered, and one of these fell to us, having dawdled in picking what we'd do: petits-fours in chocolate and lemon, arranged in a checkerboard, with wafers of the melting chocolate also used for the petits-fours icing. Here's a link to the recipe.
I confess, I got silly.
Actually, I got marzipan - and made chess set
figures.
Ruth
painting chess pieces...
Marzipan Chess
Pieces
Marzipan Chess
Pieces
Marzipan Chess
Pieces
Marzipan Chess
Pieces
Marzipan Chess
Pieces
Marzipan Chess
Pieces
Cake
pieces in the freezer
Here's how
we transported the chess set
The Chess and
Checkers boards - setting up the chessboard: "white square on the right; queen on
her color..."
The chess board assembled
The boards...
There were also few pictures of the cakes taken in place on the serving tables that I would love to see. If you happened to take a photo of this, I would love to get a copy, and to be able to include it on this page, if possible!
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