Oh, the beloved beer and wing night at the Losier’s happened once again this year. I would like to send a great thanks out to Vero for allowing me to leave Hearst to attend this grand event!
30 pounds of wings later, we were all content on the good job done out in the garage. I aided (in a meager fashion) to apply the sauce to the wings. The Losier’s have a pretty good setup actually – the beer is downstairs and easily accessible, and the deep fryer for the wings is outside. Once the wings are cooked, they are thrown into three difference sauces – hot, thai and…hmm…can’t recall the last one. Some sort of sweet&sour mixture I believe. Then we cart the wings inside, throw them into this slow cooker that has individual slots and then everyone has a basket to place their wings into.
The judgement of how many wings to cook for 30 people is a tough gamble because there is definitely a bigger demand at the beginning than at the end of a 10 batch cycle. We were going to open the other 20 pounds of wings but Bruce thought better of it and decided to see if the 30 pounds would do the trick. Indeed they did.
After dinner, Louise & Sam had created this excellent Powerpoint Presentation to display the lyrics to a plethora of songs so that everyone could take part in singing. In total, there were a good 4-5 guitars in the room at one time, a piano and I believe someone was trying to play drums with their chicken wings. This was a gathering of musical minds is all about! We hammered through a lot of the tunes we all knew, and then listened intently when there were a few that only few people could play. The highlight of the night for me is when Bruce went into some improvisational jazz number which had me in awe. Well, really, he has me in awe whenever he plays. I hope to be of his calibre one day in the future.
The night quieted down after a few hours of playing and we sat there taking it all in.