What a glorious day for a church dinner on October 23rd! Making the rounds at church dinners has become a Southern Maryland sport. If you can only hit one fall dinner in 2012, this is the one (assuming it will be as good next year as it was in 2011).
First, you pay for your dinner and are then are seated at a long rectangular table with lots of other folks. A server takes your drink order - iced tea or coffee. You are then invited to go through the buffet line. Dinner is buffet style so everything you get is HOT (if it's supposed to be hot). The oysters were incredibly delicious as were the other items on the buffet - roast turkey with dressing, ham, parsley potatoes, candied sweet potatoes, green beans, cole slaw. Dinner rolls, beets, and a few other items are on the table so you help yourself during dinner. If you want seconds of anything, there are youngsters on standby to bring you smaller plates of whatever specialty you request. I had more oysters and slaw - the young may brought be close to a dozen oysters and a small bowl of slaw. Several folks at our table went back through the buffet line themselves - guess they wanted more of everything. Nobody raised an eyebrow and they thoroughly enjoyed their meal.
There were a couple of things about the buffet that I especially appreciated:
(1) As stated above, the food that's supposed to be hot was hot. (2) There were serving spoons or forks for each dish. (Sometimes at those family style dinners there aren't enough serving spoons and people use the forks they've been eating with to serve themselves more food from the community platter. I have issued with that.)
Put this dinner on your list. I will keep a watchful eye on my church bulletin and the local newspaper for announcement of this dinner. It is #1!
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