Golden Dinner Part II

From my email to Bakey describing this weekend: "Also, my new kitchen aid blender not breaking any of my fingers or exploding was good. I, of course, waited till the last minute to pull it out of its box in the garage and did not read the directions and then proceeded to dump astronomical amounts of butternut squash pulp into it for my golden soup. It made some horrible noises I suspect from not being completely placed correctly but at least the shit got liquefied. P had to leave the room because he was convinced I was going to be dead from the 2 horse power motor bursting into flames after that little kitchen battle."



Golden Beets.

The delicious aformentioned butternut squash soup.

Golden Birthday Party Dinner

Our Fabulous Golden Birthday Party finally came to fruition last Saturday. GRE BM and Mr. Gre, Bio and Mr. Bio, and dear friends T and childhood friend V showed to celebrate as well.

The standouts were getting to use all of our new toys, the champagne flutes, the tableware, the silver (gold) ware, were all new and exciting and wedding gift loot.

The bar featured champagne, white wine, red wine and yes, Goldshlager. Thanks to dear hubs, the evening featured taking shots of this gold infused minty liquer. This might also explain why there are not tons of pictures of after dinner. Our flutes were a fab gift from Stats and our chargers are Macy's most fun registry gift.

I found out from MIL that the yellow bottom of the sea dwelling looking flowers are actually called cockscomb and when fully ripe turn a beautiful reddish purple color. The crysanthamums and cockscomb made a great flower arrangement because they were virtually scentless which didnt compete with the food.






The friends!
T (best guest ever) due to her amazing camera skills we have documentation of our fun night. Seriously, P and I are the worst photographers, we are at the mercy of our friends to record the meaningful moments of our life.

GRE, Mrs. D, and BIO

GRE and Mr. GRE

Please join us in our conversion to Suburbia, Thanks.

This is our Better Homes and Garden moment, enjoy it!

BIO and V.

T, Mr. BIO and me.

Probably P's favorite wedding gift, the chocolate fountain! We served strawberries, bananas, graham crackers, marshmellows, and cupcakes to be dipped.

I have not sent out Thank yous, but I am loving my gifts!

I am so excited to finally be able to start using some of the GORGEOUS gifts that we received from our wedding. I know this will sound funny, but I am continually surprised by all the gifts we received. I know I should not in the least be at all surprised because after all we registered for them, but still, our guests were AMAZING! So generous and wonderful to give us these totally beautiful things.

One of my favorite gifts is the trifle bowl that we received from our dear friend Rachel Teannalach - check her out at her website. Aside from being an amazing artist whose art graces 3 walls of my home (we really like her stuff!) she is also a great cook with a wicked sense of humor. A big joke we had going into my wedding is that when she got married she planned her wedding very quickly and had no time to register for gifts. Her guests did not really know what to get her so every one's default gift was a bowl! I am ashamed to admit, even me! Some nice huge salad bowl, but still... she ended up with like 20 bowls and toaster or something ridiculous. So when it was my turn to get married, guess what she got me? Clearly, she was bound to get me a bowl, this one was off my registry but still it gave me a fit of giggles to open it.

I am totally inspired to find some fabulous trifle recipe and start owning this dessert.





Inspiration thanks to The Brides Cafe.

Cutest STD's and Gourmet Alert.

These sweet baking inspired Save the Dates are so adorable and creative, you can tell the people getting married just love food and cooking. I have an absolute certainty that once I get married, some magical thing inside me is going to be activated and the next day I am going to awake as an amazing chef. Seriously, I don't know how it's going to work but I just know that I'm going to without any effort on my part become just fabulous in the kitchen. Not a Julia Child but at least Rachel Ray, so that's why I have registered for all the accoutrement's a nascent gourmand needs to create her professional grade comestibles.



From Stylemepretty blog

Rosemary Redux

Rosemary Potatoes

1 pound Red Bliss, round white, or new potatoes
4 tablespoons olive oil
2 (5-inch) rosemary sprigs (but really...as much as possible)
5 medium cloves garlic, lightly smashed
Sea Salt
Fresh Black Pepper
Chow.com

Bake those potatoes using the Zuni method. Potatoes boiled in salted water until tender, then drain and toss with olive oil and fresh rosemary which you have bruised, not chopped or minced. Throw the it all on a cookie sheet and put some sprigs of fresh rosemary on the potatoes. Roast at 400' for about 20-25 minutes.

For Mama's Day we luxuriated post enormous dinner in P's mom's garden. A rosemary bush was in full riotous bloom and smelled enchanting. I became excited about the possibilities for all the rosemary. According to gardenguides.com rosemary is pretty much a wonder herb. Smells good, tastes good, and has been reputed to improve your memory. I picked a bunch of bunches and have proceeded to disperse to the BMs.

The other sweet discovery about Rosemary is that in the language of flowers (which I think is a Greek/Roman/Victorian amalgamation/invention?) it represents remembrance and fidelity. Even when I am desperately trying to not think wedding, it's everywhere. Rosemary might be a sweet and pungent way of incorporating my own remembrances into my wedding flowers.



A olfactory adventure will be had by all with this rosemary and ranunculous centerpiece from modernbride.com .