My dear friend Katherine is getting married this weekend, so I thought it would be nice to throw a small get together for her to kick off the wedding week.
Problem was, My mom was in town last week, then I was in Seattle, then I had a wedding to attend Saturday, so I had almost no time to pull things together!
How did I do it, you ask? Here’s how. I used what food stuffs I had in my kitchen, plus some things I’d gathered for Hurricane Irene preparedness (Oh yeah, that was happening this weekend too!)
So here’s how:
1. I purchased these cute flower garlands from Paper Source in Seattle and put them together Saturday evening.
2. Woke up around 10:30 Sunday and had G buy some groceries for me while I tidied the house
3. Got started on this cake lime-yogurt cake, beautiful, simple and hurricane Irene prompted me to buy 7 limes for $1 at the local latin gorcery. Rather than make a blackberry sauce, I smeared a jar of Blackberry jam I had on hand on top
4. I had some leftover seedy bread so I made a panzanella of cucumber, tomato, red onion and avocado.
5. turned to my old standby party recipe, rice tossed with herbed goat cheese, and a mixture of vegetables, this time I used zuzhinni, red and yellow peppers and red onion. The goat cheese adds a really interesting flavor to this dish.
finally I threw out some crackers and cheese (G’s idea) set the table up with all the accoutrements, and set out some booze and mixers (gin & white rum, grapefruit juice, ginger ale and limes)
And voila! Lovely bridal shower in almost no time at all! It’s certainly a hectic race in those two hours, but totally doable if you use staples that you keep on hand, like rice, a few vegetables etc.
Now, my farm share has overloaded me with eggplant, any suggestions on what to do with it?
