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| if it's just for one day, could you simply use a cool box filled with ice? | |
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Not in this case. The food is already purchased, and some in the fridge, some on the terrace. Now I start doing the prep and 1/2 assembling of the food, the day of I finish everything off, and since there is a lot to do that including picking people up from the air port, the food should be in an almost done state.
If it was simply a matter of keeping a bag of chicken on ice that would work. Everything needs to be on an even surface, and the kitchen is tiny.
So to finish, the cold foods have to be to the point where I add a garnish, and the warm foods, popped in the oven, dropped in the deep fryer, or set a' blaze, then garnished and to the table.
It might've been easier to make a big roast, and side dishes, but since the apartment is so small there is not enough room for the people invited to sit at a table or around the apartment for a dinner. So we instead have made an all afternoon, evening small bites where people can roam, but also get full.
Ice box won't work on this occasion.