1 Week or More Before Feast
■ Buy any items you need on the Planking Essentials, Pit Kit, and Outdoor Cooking Essentials lists.
■ Pick up firewood or charcoal or arrange for delivery.
■ Pick up steel plate or arrange for delivery.
■ Pick up cinder blocks or arrange for delivery.
■ Decide where to put pit.
■ Order fish.
2 Days Before Feast
■ Build cinder block pit.
■ Do your big grocery shop.
1 Day Before Feast
■ Make vinaigrette and cook barley.
■ Make aioli.
■ Toast bread and almonds for crostini.
■ Make Salsa Romesco.
■ Make ice cream base.
FEAST DAY
Morning of Feast
■ Prepare (but don’t dress!) fennel and celery salad.
■ Pick up fish.
■ Soak planks.
■ Brine fish.
■ Prepare (but don’t dress!) barley salad.
■ Churn ice cream.
■ Stuff tomatoes.
3 Hours Before Feast
■ Prepare tomato mixture for crostini.
■ Prepare berries and topping for slumps but keep them separate.
■ Start pit fire if you’re using wood.
2 Hours Before Feast
■ Light pit fire if you are using charcoal. (Once you have the fire going, you won’t be able to leave it unattended.)
11/2 Hours Before Feast
■ Put stuffed tomatoes in oven or pit oven.
■ Toast crostini on griddle (if not done earlier).
■ Remove cedar planks from water and put sturgeon on planks.
■ Grill and mash avocados.
1 Hour Before Feast
■ Put planked fish over the fire.
■ Put leeks on griddle.
30 Minutes Before Feast
■ Have friends assemble crostini.
■ Dress and toss barley salad.
■ Griddle squid and add to salad.
■ Have friends put topping on slumps and put Dutch ovens on cinder blocks.