Howdy ho there! Happy Final Monday of June! Actually, I’m pretty bummed June is coming to a close, as it’s truly one of my favorite months of the year.
Anyway… I obviously survived The Big Day as you are aware of from reading this post or my million-a-day tweets. Yes, I catered a wedding reception for 200 people and… there were NO catastrophes. I can’t take all the credit, however, as I certainly could not have pulled it off without my savior of an aunt – thank you! I figured at least one embarrassing thing would have happened – a huge spill, a broken dish, flames… something – but, fortunately, I left at the end of the night feeling accomplished, exhausted from being on my feet for seven straight hours, and ready for a drink!
I rushed home, changed out of my soiled black and white, and met up with Miss Courtney for a drink at The Pearl, the one and only modern chic bar in town. I enjoyed a delicious lemon drop – mmm. Anything tastes better with a sugared rim : )
Then we have yesterday… I was pretty much useless. It was an “a lot of nothing” day. I did enjoy a tasty dinner of enchiladas – eggplant & almond! – and a pretty pile of ensalada for dinner. Thanks, Mom.
I don’t know if I’ve mentioned before, but my mom is the Queen of Cookies… as in she’s incapable baking a bad batch.
Oatmeal [White & Dark] Chocolate Chip + Coconut, Dried Apricots and Walnuts
The movie we watched afterwards – Remember Me with Robert Pattinson – was the opposite of our summery dinner. It was extremely dark – literally and figuratively. I’m banned from renting the next movie ; )
Oh, in case you were wondering, no exercising occurred this weekend [unless you count seven hours of catering]. So, I started the week on the right [left?] foot with a mini 37-minute run with Courtney. When I am going to get myself to start strength training again?
Gotta go figure out a dinner menu for tomorrow night’s meal with the aunts and uncles. Cooking for six seems like breeze after cooking for 200.
Hope ya’ll are off to a great week! I’ve gotta GIVEAWAY coming your way…
Hillary
everything but the kitchen sink.
Why I Eat The Way I Do
{vegan} almond apricot quinoa muffins.
dinner & a winner.
seeing green.
of course it went well!! :) and a well-deserved lemon drop sounds perfect.
your mom’s cookies sound GOOOOD… I love apricots in oatmeal cookies.
Any chance your mom wants to share her cookie recipe? Because holy smokes, those sound unreal!
I’m glad it went well! You definitely earned your Lemon Drop. (That sounds really tasty, actually. I love anything lemon flavored.)
Your mom looks like an amazing cook! Those cookies…wow. I’m drooling a bit here. :D
“Remember Me” was NOT AT ALL what I was expecting – but I loved it!
congrats on the catering job going well! yummmmy cookies. can’t wait for the giveaway :)
Glad the reception went well!
Oatmeal choco chip cookies are my faaavorite :)
Yum! Your enchiladas look so good. I made some over the weekend too, but no photo to prove it :(
Congrats on catering the wedding…sounds like it went really well!
Congratulations on a successful night! We all knew you’d be fabulous. And you most certainly deserved a Lemon Drop, or two!
eggplant and almond? that sounds wonderful! do you happen to have a recipe?