my mum makes a KILLER wombok (sp?) salad.
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Stef, thanks heaps for your input! Ok, what it is... we're doing a hardcore/breakcore gig (think stupid-brutal electronic music) on a Sunday, starting at midday. Since we have a bad time to start a gig, combined with there being many big parties on the night before, offering an incentive such as free barbeque lunch for people that turn up early will hopefully work in our favour to draw a decent crowd.
What we're doing hasn't been done before in this context, so instead of something cheap and shitty I wanted to make a little bit of effort in to doing something worthwhile turning up for.
We're hoping to run the food from midday to 3pm, or whenever ~300 people turn up. It might just happen that things go slowly and we are left with heaps of food, but that's fine as we can fire things up again later in the evening (the event runs until 10pm) as a treat for those hanging around. Ideally we want quite a few hundred people to arrive early, and if anyone misses out then that's too bad for them - we'd have achieved our goal of getting people through the door and that's the priority here
No doubt everyone will be drinking (and more!), I don't expect food to be a huge priority but for those that have been up since the night before it might help them keep going during the day.
So... food wise, I was thinking of sausages, they're easy... marinated chicken - maybe drumsticks as they're cheap and easy, though sliced fillet pieces would be nicer. Also will probably do grilled eggplant slices and maybe something else for those swayed that way. For salads a friend suggested doing a simple leafy salad that could be had either by itself or in a roll with meat, and I'd like to do a potato salad and possibly a coleslaw too.
It doesn't have to be too fancy, but a choice of a few options will make a big difference. Budget is tight, as cheap as we can get is the way to go but I am willing to spend $2-300 or even more if necessary, though less is best to keep overheads under control.
As much as I'd like to prepare it all before the gig since I'm the main man and there's so much to do that weekend it's pretty well out of the equation. I
could do it at home and have the methodical work ethic to make it happen, but then storage space becomes a massive drama.
Ideally I'd like to find somewhere that'll sell us quite a few bulk tubs of salad for pretty cheap, pick them up on the friday, deliver to the venue (pub) and leave in coolroom storage until it's used on Sunday.
It's a headache I could do without but it's our first gig and I'd like it to be something special.
Again, your input is appreciated, especially the approximate numbers for consumption.
If anyone knows where I should look for bulk salad purchasing, point me in the right direction! Also some approximate pricing would be nice too, I can imagine the random takeaway store owner would like to make a nice profit on me asking for them to supply for me so need to be wary of that.
