Food, food and more food. Sundays, we had food at other people's houses. The last time I went regularly was in 2000. It was real-live cooked food, speared fresh from the stove and served, still gasping for breath, on real-live plates (usually round but sometimes octagonal.) I particularly liked the food part.
Sometimes it was hard to remember
APRIL 9
APRIL 2
MARCH 26
MARCH 19
MARCH 12
MARCH 05
FEBRUARY 27
FEBRUARY 20
FEBRUARY 13
FEBRUARY 6
JANUARY 30
JANUARY 23
JANUARY 16
JANUARY 9
Yummy peanut chicken at sunspark and merrr's for the last time.
Desert (white-chip lemon-lime bars) was served early due to a rice
planning error. (As opposed to a ricecam error, inside joke :-)
It just goes to show that even when you plan a sure fire, crowd pleaser,
easy to make menu, and make one of the deserts the night before,
you can still have a major oops.
People discussed Dave's practically new computer (boy, RAM is cheap
again), what he'd sell the old one for, and random political things,
etc. Jack got a ride in his wagon. We had a second desert of apple
crisp, more lemon-lime bars, and whip cream (what goes kshhrr?) from
a can.
Carol & Peter are back from their secret mission in Spain! Yummy pesto
and pasta w/ chicken breast topping. Ghiradelli brownies for desert,
yummy and chocolatey as usual. Peter was unfortunately felled by a cold
shortly after cooking. Emily seemed no worse for having sampled most of
the spanish soils.
A tiny impromptu dinner with chicken kindof-satay by Bamf & Bryn. Dave
was the sole co-conspirator
joining the festivities. Rumor has it that it was good, but who knows
what went into it.
sunspark and merrrr punted on their scheduled dinner duties on account
of being contagious and having recently come back from a snowboarding mission.
Peter and Carol were not seen rescuing 13 hostages from terrorist forces in
Madrid.
Seafood lasagne (red) at Dave's brand new place. A minimalist set of
people, just sunspark, merrrrr, and Frank, made it hard to decide how
to sit people. Yummy sweet potato pie w/ cool whip for desert. Today
was the first day of combat for everyone's RC gliders, the first time
Dave caught his own Zagi, and the first time Frank flew for an hour
w/o breaking anything. Oh, and Frank did a roll. Um, that is, he
rolled his airplane. Frank himself may or may not have rolled as well.
Jack and Emily were definately not seen storming the castle.
Orange sauce chicken w/ couscous at Bamf & Bryn's. Mark and Leia
from Loral replaced Carol & Peter. A really rich dark yummy chocolate
thingy for desert with fresh whipped cream. Think brownie crossed
with truffles and pudding. Mark was the one whose group had the
most accurate paper airplane design (as measured by how many people
could get it to hit a spot on a wall). His idea was to wad the paper
up into a ball. Rah Mark!
Food at sunspark & merrrrr's, replacing Dave's turn because he's
moving! Homemade cream of chicken soup with dumplings,
meatloaf surprise, mashed potatoes and gravy. The dumplings
(by Dave) were good even though we had to replace the watercress
w/ parsley. The other stuff was a alright though a bit bland. Maybe
more pepper and marjoram next time in the meatloaf. Yummy moose pie
for desert. Dave explained how airplanes
fly due to magic. We downloaded a "Proposition Song" because "the ballot
is too darn long." Peter & Carol were packing instead.
Sloppy Joe's at Bamf & Bryn's with picnic style fixings of potato salad,
homemade coleslaw, etc. Sloppy joes were good with potato salad in
the sandwich. Various box-cakes for desert. Talk was of
mediocre engineers, jobs, and other things mer still doesn't
remember. Bamf & Bryn's orange tree now makes sweet oranges.
Irish soda bread (homemade) and beef stew at Carol & Peter's.
Talk was of inductance
and other exciting things which mer doesn't remember. Jack has stitches on
his forehead. Yummy crunchy chocolate filled lace cookies for desert as
well as sweet sticky buns.
Bulgogi at sunspark &
merrrrrrr's. Was tasty but a bit tough, wonder
why. Oddly, there were 9 biscuits in the tube, fortuitous but odd.
People watched the creek and speculated if we would need to enact
flood evasion tactics after desert. Three variations on desert:
cupcakes with chocolate and cherries on top, chocolate cake with
cheesecake and
cherry topping, and just cheesecake topping with
cherries on top. Braden can walk a few steps on his own if you trick
him. Emily no longer falls down when someone nudges her.
Everyone trooped over to the Chaucer street bridge to gawk
at the water along with the rest of the town.
Spicy thai braised beef over egg noodles at Bamf & Bryn's. We should
try this one again with less spice. Braden ate it though!
Yummy rye bread to go with tasty french onion soup. Different recipe
from Carols. This one, you throw everything in the crock pot and
go shoot skeet for 3 hours.
Frank showed
up in the aftermath. Chocolate cake with colored sprinkles in the
frosting for desert. Dave and David discovered that toddlers are
extreeeemely amused if you play frisbee with paper plates and
knock down paper cups.
Pepper spray is available at your local drug store.
Some sort of mediterranean yummy chicken stew at Carol & Peter's. It was
yellow and had a lot of olives. I guess you have to like turmeric and olives.
Excitingly swirled mostly-white cake for desert. Braden was amazingly good
despite his cold.
No official food, but sunspark and merrrr had grilled cheddar and
chocolate-raspberry torte and both were yummy. :-)
Two kinds of tasty lasagne by Dave at the Bamf & Bryn locale. One spinach &
nutmeg, one mild turkey sausage, merrr liked the sausage best.
Bamf was consorting with French engineers. Bryn discovered some leftover
banana muffins that were pretty good. Braden b-day cake for desert.
(three! due to multiple "show up in the store with your kid, claim it's
his b-day, and get free cake" deals.)
Swedish meatballs with Spanish Beef sauce at sunspark & merrrrr's.
Sauce (preparation heavily modified from original) was ok but not as
good as the 3 hour version. Meatballs made in the new cuisinart came
out really tender though, yum. Fancy chocolate layer cake with
Chambord (raspberry liquer) cream and a thin layer of rich chocolate
on top was yummy and impressive looking to boot. We used box-mix for
the cake after a collapsing accident with the original recipe
flourless test-cake. Peter had to leave early due to Jack fever.
Emily can walk around fairly well now.
Special guest stars, sunspark's mom and dad.