Archive for September, 2010
Wedding Food
September 29th, 2010 Posted 2:57 pm
Very few words today….but lots of food.
Pre-wedding on Saturday, my family made enough food for approximately 150 people. There were around 30 people (if that) in attendance at the party. This was completely out of control wonderful. It was also my cousin’s birthday around the same time, so my uncle whipped up an adorable and fun birthday cake (he was also responsible for the gorgeous wedding cake farther down.)
Yes, that is my grandma’s macaroni and cheese. All of my friends are familiar with this already, since I make it every chance I get.
It seems like no one got pictures of the actual dinner at Thirteen Moons Restaurant, which was really delicious. However, we are overrun with photos of cake, cake and more cake. My uncle went overboard, and I love it…everything was moist and delicious as well as beautiful. The main cake is a traditional wedding cake with raspberry filling. There were carrot cake cupcakes and german chocolate cupcakes along with a german chocolate mini-layer cake.
And little boxes (filled by Hicania!) with red and yellow M&Ms along with some other fun candy.
The “M†was sparkly and wonderful!
The food not pictured included prime rib, salmon, chicken, pasta, veggies, grouper and a side salad with a white balsamic honey vinaigrette that I really want to replicate.
On Tuesday, Matt and I returned to Thirteen Moons to try some more of their food while not quite so busy with hugs and pictures. It was a spectacular first dinner out together as a married couple…we ordered Sake Marinated Chilean Sea Bass with baby bok choy and a coconut saffron beurre blanc and Iron Flashed Buffalo Sirloin with horseradish whipped potatoes and truffled demi glace. Both were outstanding. Matt started with a repeat of Sunday’s salad and I had the Thai Shrimp Soup, which was delicious, but crazy spicy.
Of course, on the drive back to the airport, we stopped at Chik-Fil-A for lunch. Our NC wedding weekend was complete.
Where Have I Been??
September 18th, 2010 Posted 9:24 pm
Yeah…I disappeared. But really, it was only for 6 months or so. How much could have happened in that time, right??
Well….
We moved into a new house! We have surprisingly few pictures of it…but it’s wonderful! We have three bedrooms, a gorgeous and light-filled living area, a fully fenced backyard and a 10 minute drive to work for me! 
We bought a shiny new car! Matt’s lease on our Honda was up, and I wasn’t particularly fond of it. The Mazda 3 is lovely, sporty, and took us on a super fun road trip to Portland for Matt’s birthday…
And to a Seattle Sounders game!
We have cooked…and eaten…a LOT! The following pictures only make up a couple months (if that) of the last half a year. It has been delicious.
Need to know what any of those are? Ask me and I’ll try to figure it out…I have been pretty lazy about keeping track of things we cook lately. Included above…a vegetable chickpea curry with paneer, pumpkin lasagne rolls, seared scallops, bean and corn tortilla “pizzaâ€, roasted corn tilapia, homemade Cincinnati-style chili (!!!!) on top of Cook’s Illustrated-style hash browns with eggs and cheese for breakfast, ham dinner for Easter, coconut crusted something….it was all really spectacular.
I went on an amazingly relaxing celebratory cruise
with this lovely new Doctor of Veterinary Medicine:
We cruised in the Bahamas for 5 days, maybe? In honor of Veronica’s graduation from vet school and my newly-engaged status, we escaped from everything for a few days and got caught up on each other from the last four years. We need this more often.
Oh…there was also the small matter of this:
Complete, spectacular happiness. It turns out planning a small wedding for family and a tiny handful of close friends is a shit ton of work. Who knew? Also, we were in NC, so there was sweet tea, chik-fil-a and actual summer weather (we have seen very little of that in Seattle this year)! It all turned out to be really fabulous…with the help of an unbelievably adorable and excited mom, a maid of honor/best girlfriend who kicked butt on the actual wedding day, a lovely lawyer/online-ordained minister friend who helped us create the perfect ceremony, very excited Seattle friends who were more than happy to help me plan all of the details in the middle of the work day, and of course a partner who was really eager to help and smart enough to stay out of the way when necessary.
Any wedding-planning friends out there, it is so so worth it. Even though there were several points during the weekend when I turned to Matt and said “the next time we get married, we are not doing it this way at all!†Mr. Wonderful Ross kept me sane through the whole process by saying things like “This is your day! You can’t do it wrong! Your job is to be beautiful and everything else will be perfect! You need to learn to delegate!†My one piece of wedding advice…find someone to tell you these things constantly!
I’m back on the road for work again soon and without wedding planning looming over me, I promise I will try to be more bloggy.
