Big birthday barbecue and the great Casey meatloaf-off.

Friday drinks and barbecue birthday bash

This week’s station news is brought to you by Col LH, Casey ‘sparkie’ (electrician).

Friday 10 July was a combined traditional Friday drinks, dinner and birthday for yours truly. It was an excellent venue, courtesy of the diesos in their workshop. A barbecue dinner, followed by a birthday cake and a foam blob sharp shooter competition*, rounded out the event.

*Completely harmless, safe, soft foam blob projectile, very much like a children’s foam projectile air pump gun.

Expeditioners cooking at BBQ
Expeditioners look on as BBQ is cooked
Expeditioner recieves his birthday cake.
Expos warming up for the shoot out.
Expeditioners aim toy gun at targets
Expeditioners aim toy gun at target
Expeditioners take aim with toy gun at target
Expeditioners take aim with toy gun at targets
Expeditioners take aim using toy gun
Expeditioner takes aim with toy gun
Expeditioners take aim with toy gun
Expeditioners take aim with toy gun
A young male expeditioner holds up a bottle of wine and smiles at the camera.

Meatloaf mania

Five celebrity chefs stepped up to the plate to cook a meatloaf for Monday night dinner. I sensed a very competitive nature in the Casey 2015 expos, and this cook off was not going to be any cakewalk! This was serious stuff!

Pre-dinner mind games backstage, the Casey kitchen, Granny’s secret sauce recipe and Google were all being unleashed. For the purpose of an un-biased scoring of their dishes, a nom de plume was allotted to each chef:  Hilda, Beatrice, Mable, Gertrude and Angus. We were issued with a card, and six different categories to score. Crikey!

A moment of truth: the score cards came in — an overnight stats analysis — and Benny W brought home the bacon!

Col LH 

Sign advertising meat loaf competition
Stay, the plastic mascot dog, posed in kitchen in front of ingredients as if cooking meatloaf.
A bearded expeditioner in bright jumpsuit tends to meatloaf while another bearded male expeditioner looks on with derision.
A female expeditioner with bob haircut presents a tin of cooked meatloaf and smiles.
A juicy, sliced meatloaf is presented in a bain marie with knife and jug of gravy beside it. The name Hilda is written in white board marker underneath to signify who cooked it.
A slab of meatloaf cut into squares is presented in a bain marie, with a pot of tomato based sauce behind it. The name Beatrice is written beneath.
Under baking paper sits a slab of meatloaf cut into squares. Various serving utensils flank it. The name Mable is written just in front of it on the stainless steel bench.
A meatloaf log has been cut up into circular patties, and sits inside a bain marie accompanied by a metal jug of gravy. The name Agnes is written on the stainless steel bench in front of the bain marie dish.
A large rectangular table is crowded with expeditioners. It sits in front of the bain marie serving area outside a kitchen. The crowd is waiting to taste several meatloaves.
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