What can I say? Love is in the air!
Along with pollen and other spring time favorites. As I sit here typing this, my husband, G, and my younger son, D, are both out working in the back yard pulling out old brush and weeds...and coughing and sneezing with regularity. Poor gents.
G has sprayed the yard at least 53 times with Round Up and some farm strength weed killer, but the weeds are not giving in. He may be the new sheriff in town, but they are saying that they were here first, they've been here 30 years, and they are not going down without a fight! Little do they realize the doom that they face! Dun-dun-du!!!!
But I'm getting off track. I'm here to talk about giving you an update on the wedding from the MOTG's viewpoint. The top tier is now baked and in the freezer, but I didn't take pics. The only exciting pic would have been the cutting of the cake scraps since I am going for such tall layers. Oh, and I made 12 cupcakes with the extra batter. Here's a pic of the remaining 3...
While the wedding (and cake) are 8 days away, the rehearsal is 7 days away. We are having a BBQ picnic so we're making all of the food. My future daughter-in-law has been working OT for me to get as many RSVP's back as she could. I told her today to give herself a pass and check this one off of the list as done. No matter how the count changes between now and then, it won't change the amount of food I prepare. Besides Jesus still feeds the 5,000 today; He just doesn't always get top billing for it these days.
And speaking of food, (I know! when am I NOT talking about food?!) one of our little friends coming to the rehearsal has some special dietary needs, so I let his mama know the menu about a week ago and thought I'd share it here, too.
G is in charge of the grill. He'll be grilling pork steaks, chicken, burgers and dogs. The park has 2 grills available at the pavilion, so he'll be grilling those on the hot fire while I'm "baking" onions on the other grill with a low fire.
Have you ever had my maple baked onions? So stinkin' simple, but so stinkin' yummy all at the same time - as long as you don't burn them. It's sliced onions, butter and maple syrup baked togther until the onions are all sweet and soft. They are wonderful over burgers and dogs, and they get scarfed pretty much any time I have ever served them. Let's hope I don't burn them next Thursday! Don't need to bother asking me for the recipe...slice some onions and pour melted butter and maple syrup over to taste. I mean really, how bad can it be? Can we get this one wrong, folks? I don't think so.
Along with those hot things, we'll be having some marinated vegetables. I'll pre-roast them just a bit and then marinate in a dressing that I haven't fully developed in my own mind yet. I plan to cut some of them in a waffle cut using the new cutting gadget G & I picked up at the home show last month. We'll see how that turns out. I'll post pics here of my "success" in the waffle cutting department.
Next we'll serve my mama's Mexican salad. My mama took that salad to more church potlucks and Bible studies than anyone can possibly count, and almost never brought any of it back home with her. It's uber simple, and very potluck friendly. The original recipe calls for creamy Italian dressing. Do you remember creamy Italian dressing? (I know, it's a Mexican salad with an Italian dressing, but trust me, it works.) But last time I looked, I couldn't find any creamy Italian, so I used Caesar. It could be an old-fashioned salad dressing that marketing departments decided we didn't want to buy any more once Ranch became all the rage. Yep, I bet that's it.
Then we have a watermelon basket full of fresh fruit. G & I plan to hit Soulard on Wednesday next week to pick up the fresh veggies and fruits. We like Soulard. We like Soulard a lot. We plan to take my sis, J, and her husband, G, to Soulard Saturday morning after the wedding just so they can bask in the glory that is the Soulard market culture.
Finally we will have deviled eggs. My friend, J, (I made a cake for her husband's 50th anniversary as a pharmacist a week or so before S&K's wedding last September that you can read about here...
http://jusdebdissertations.blogspot.com/2011/09/5-days.html) anyway, J, collected all of her daughter's and daughter-in-law's Tupperware deviled egg containers for me to borrow to make transporting them as easy as pie. Which, come to think of it, isn't always that easy to trasnport, but that's for another day.
Dessert is going to be sundaes. We'll send my son, D, to Dierbergs down the street from the picnic (hey, nobody said we were roughing it here!) to get the ice cream. At first I was planning to make brownies, but then I decided that I want to make Texas sheet cake instead. It's been YEARS since I had a Texas sheet cake. That is one of those super simple, homey cakes that just calls my name whenever it's around. And I don't know about you, but it simply MUST be cut in straight lines! If it's not, then that has to be fixed. And everyone knows that the parts that you cut off to keep the lines straight don't have any fat, sugar or calories as you're just answering the OCD anal call of keeping the lines straight.
Makes perfect sense to me. Duh.
Anyway, that's the rehearsal picnic. I'm looking forward to it! It should be low key and fun, which is what S&A asked for to begin with. There is a playground and plenty of space to play frisbee and baseball and hang out. There might even be a guitar or two around for musical entertainment. At least I hope so!
Talk to ya again soon!!! Happy Wedding Family of the Year to everyone!
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