"It's Over!"

That’s what we all yelled after our annual night of providing the appetizers for our sailing club’s weekly Saturday night stand-ups. These are BYOB events, and either two or three club member couples sign up and get together to provide the food each week. Originally the items consisted of your basic cheese and crackers, but as the years go by, everyone tries to outdo each other. This causes quite a bit of stress, along with trying to come up with new recipes (that use ingredients that are easily available here in the Bahamas, which adds even more of a challenge), and anticipating how many people will show up for ‘your’ night’s stand-up cocktail party.

We try to sign up early, because as the season gets into full swing come January and February, there can be up to 80 people attending. As it was, we had around 60 people the other night, but luckily we had plenty of food, all of which was a big hit so there were no leftovers. I was just glad that we had three of us couples doing the work and everyone went beyond the call of duty.

How’s this for a nice spread of food?

There was another table full of food just like this out in the club's gazebo!

All of our appetizers ended up being dinner for the members.



I would say the evening was a smashing success, but we’re all glad it’s over…at least until next year. Oh, and if anyone has any good appetizer recipes that uses basic ingredients, is easy to make, and can be adapted to feed lots of people, send me an email please! Then I will be prepared to impress everyone when it is my turn once again.