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A cookout -- 05/31/10 |
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We thought it would be nice to have a gathering at our house this weekend, a beginning of summer cookout, a chance to get together with friends and family. Sunday afternoon was selected because Nancy's sister Clara and her daughter Caitlin would be in town. On Saturday Nancy and I went shopping to buy some food and drink. I got almost five pounds of boneless chicken breast and about two and a half pounds of steak. When we got home I cut up the beef and chicken and put it to marinate for about 24 hours in spiedie sauce (Salamida's State Fair Spiedie Sauce). I also cooked a pot full of potatoes and hard-boiled a lot of eggs. Then, on Sunday morning Nancy and I chopped up lots of onion and chives and celery, etc. and made a huge potato salad and a lot of deviled eggs. (Got arranged nicely, the eggs on a bed of lettuce, looking very colorful being decorated with paprika and fresh cut chives and the potatoes with sliced eggs on top along with snips of fresh parsley and a chive flower in the middle -- and I was thinking they would make nice pictures but then I completely forgot to take pictures of them. Duh!) Jeremy was a big help in getting the marinated meat onto skewers. Some of the skewers were just chicken or just steak while others had grape tomatoes and pieces of red and green peppers and slices of yellow and green squash interspersed. (And then he washed and sanitized all the kitchen counters!) Jeremy was wondering if he should also make pizza, but then he decided that it might be more interesting to make individual sized calzones... So he dashed off and came back with pizza dough (just stop by a pizzeria and say you want to buy a couple balls of dough) and some Italian sausage... and then he went to work on making a marinara sauce and pre-cooking the sausage... Meanwhile, Jill was sharing the kitchen with him as she was making two apple pies.
Oh, yes, of course we had started with lots of veggies and dip and chips and salsa, etc. And Janet had brought a spinach and strawberry and walnut salad. And Nancy had made lemon squares for dessert. And Clara brought chocolate brownies.... What? Why yes, we do like to eat around here... Having a quiet day today. Fed Tiger, made coffee, put out the flag... Nancy and I had breakfast out on the back deck... she's watered the lawn and the gardens. I had thought about going into town for the Memorial Day parade, but the thought of negotiating my way through a crowd wearing my moonboot was not enticing... plus, I must admit that I kind of overdid walking and standing on Saturday and Sunday and my foot has been complaining... so I think I will spend as much time as possible not standing and not walking. In fact, I think I'll post this and then go read a book for a while with my foot up.
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