My sisters baby shower!
I’ve been food crazy lately see my last entry and I have a couple of food outings that I’ll be attending in the next couple of weeks as well. So those should be super fun!
I don’t want to wash another dish for a long time but I will I know I will.
I made about 30 pans of food for Sunday, chopped till my hearts content, making sauces from scratch, filling pastas, blanching, baking, braising, stewing, shredding, slicing, roasting, slow cooking, ever single pot bowl in my house was probably used, washed, and used again and washed again. My back hurt, my knees were bothering, I was hot and had a thousand things going through my head and remembered that I used to do this every day, all the time, well not to the extent of just me doing it but got the same old feelings back again it felt nice.
Here’s the updated menu and the pictures I was unfortunately up to the boiling point with things to do rather then taking pictures so these are shots some I took, my sister took, and some my dad took and we still missed some of the food Oh well!
It was about a three day process of shopping, organizing, usage of ice chests and dinning room tables, and 24 hours of solid cooking but the amazing amount of feedback I got from my friends and family was worth all a million dishes which is also what I had to do. A solo event like this really made me miss my old facilities but I was so proud of myself being able to make this all work in the space I had to use.
“Red rice” sun dried tomato and white wine rice
Three stuffed pastas
Ground beef and rapini with creamy tomato sauce
Braised steak, Italian cheese, and mushroom with mushroom marinara
Chicken cacciatore with mixed vegetable red wine sauce
Shells three ways
3 hour Stewed Marinara
Italian mac n cheese with mozzarella, parmesan, garlic and white cheddar
Prosciutto “Carbonara” with Haricot Vert
Chicken three ways
Herb encrusted Chicken breast
Chicken Cordon Bleu
Chicken with melted provolone
Salads
Mixed green salad button mushroom, roasted beets, and garbanzo beans with homemade blue ranch dressing
Grilled shrimp salad with roasted asparagus, orzo, and spinach in a lemon cilantro vinaigrette
Balsamic cob spears with home made creamy balsamic roasted zucchini, maple bacon, hard boiled egg, and tomato
Kalamata, black olive, and green olive spicy tapenade
Bean Dip
Spinach dip
Cheese and fruit plate
Crostini, chips, and mixed nuts
Some things were set up a little weird but I had so many people helping me put out food and trying to be really helpful I had to use all my patience and stop being a perfectionist on everything and just get the food out so I could relax with my family. It was really amazing and so much fun.
Kimberly
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