Good luck, IL. Hope both events are fun!
Good luck, IL. Hope both events are fun!
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Tacos last night. Waffles, eggs, and bacon tonight. Tamale Pie for dinner on Thursday. Only my husband likes tamale pie so I only make it once every couple of months to end the whining about not getting it more.
I had harvested the last of the Black Krim tomatos and pondering what to do with them. DH decided to try making something new - tomato pie so that is dinner tonight with a salad.
Both dinners went well. We had “harvest” as our dinner theme with stuffed peppers made with beef from family farm. Stuffing included onions and tomato sauces in green pepper, all grown by DH. His green beans and carrots were included. In the salad was tomatoes and lime green peppers he grew. Mashed potatoes were part of the meal.Originally Posted by happystuff
I bought cupcakes at a bakery for dessert. $50+ for a dozen, yowza! But I purposely wanted nice quality cupcakes.
The first dinner had the most logistical challenges since…it was the first time. I cooked the food and moved it down to the dining room on the condo provided trolley.I guess it was still reasonably warm but that is a downfall.
By the second dinner, I was better organized.
oddly, no one drank wine at the first one, and for the second one we went through 2 bottles. It was my first taste of a great Cabernet in months, it was splendid.
For the next dinner I will have 2 soups in crockpots plugged in there in the dining room plus salad. Will make toasted garlic French bread which will be the only dish to keep Hot.
That sounds like so much fun, IL! Well done!
We also had an event this past weekend. It was DH's 70th birthday, so the immediate family plus BIL-- (total 10 adults and 5 children ages spanning from 1-71) rented a fabulous Vermont farmhouse in Stratton, where we spent 20 years' worth of family vacations and cultivated our love of Vermont. It was great!
So, that gets to dinner for tonight--we had such a hard time finding prepared/catered meals in Vermont that I wound up having my NJ son go to the same Italian restaurant/deli in our NJ neighborhood that I used for DH's 60th birthday, so that was some nice symmetry there. And they make great food! We had two vegetarian offerings, including eggplant parmigiana, and chicken marsala and chicken francaise. Tonight we're having leftovers.
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That sounds like such a nice time.
I actually considered using a caterer for these dinners and I may do that in the future.
Since DH is the family chef, and I am a very, very reluctant chef, there is no way I was going to permit any cooking on the weekend. Friday night's dinner consisted of meat pies, sausage rolls and forfar birdies we got from a Scottish shop a couple of towns away--and my birthday present for DH was 2 dozen of them to take home. We did beans and fries to go with it. Pies are so handy! You can pull them out any time and heat them up and they're good to go, and so delicious with a little HP!
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Those pies sound wonderful!
I had tuna salad and crackers.
Tonight was Wendy's for dinner. A bit of a drive and hella expensive nowadays but at least I didn't have to cook!!
Today is shrimp Diablo. I had it for dinner our last night in Mexico and LOVED it. Found a recipe that I think is similar so we’ll see how it turns out!
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