Posts Tagged ‘food’

Sauerbraten Superbowl

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

The superbowl was celebrated by us and our friends with a feast of German food. Andy made sauerbraten with a raisin wine gravy, a meal with a long and intensive assembly process. This roast marinated in red wine for 3 days! After a while, it became quite wine colored. The rest of the food at this event was spectacular as well. Jon made spaetzle on site, and it went with the gravy very well. Brian also made a very tasty German potato salad. Besides the wonderful German food, we had vanilla cookies with lemon icing by Pam and Jim and an excellent chex mix by Kristi and Mike. We had other food besides that, and I liked it all.

I wasn’t really that into the game all that much. I have really lost my passion for football now that fantasy football is over. We had the football connoisseurs watching on Andy’s TV in the basement, and the rest of us normal people watched upstairs and hovered near the kitchen. I have to admit that I really didn’t see any spectacular commercials this year, but that could be attributed to the fact that I was organizing my pictures the entire time.

As you can see from the pictures, most of the upstairs people were multitasking, but a good time was had by all.

Christmas in January

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

It always turns out that we are too busy to have a Christmas party in December, so on January 19, 2008, we attended the annual Christmas party at Adam and Amber’s. (Don’t confuse this event with the Greatest Christmas Party Ever that I blogged about a few months ago…that was a Greatest Event Ever with a Christmas theme).

The food was spectacular. We were instructed to eat 2 lbs of ham each, and ha ha…we didn’t do it although some people tried. Andy and I brought spanikopita triangles. And Lee made me realize that I do not, in fact, hate cream cheese. She made a dip, I tried it, and I liked it. And later she called me and told me what was in it. As many of you know, I have an aversion to several dairy products. I may have lumped cream cheese into that general aversion unfairly. Since then I have tried one wedge of laughing cow (the garlic and herb kind), and it wasn’t bad either.

Lee’s dip Blurry ham Dessert

We listened to N Sync and other unlikely candidates sing Christmas songs. And then we moved on to the white elephant gift exchange. There were no magnetix this year! And most of the presents were fun.

Pile of presents. Patrick opens a present. Lee shakes presents.

Andy stole a weather station from Patrick, something we had been talking about getting for a while. No one else must have wanted it because we kept it until the end of the game. And Lee got the angel. This is the neon angel that has been making it around the white elephant parties for a while now. I’m glad we didn’t get it.

The angel no one wants. Our weather station. Patrick’s gift.

I vote for no white elephant next year, if anyone out there is listening.

New Year’s Eve Fun

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

We were back from our trip to Michigan, we had been to work for a day, and then we were ready for New Year’s Eve! Those few people left in Rochester joined us at Casa de Andar to watch the ball drop at 11 pm, play games, and eat snacks.

And here are just a few shots of the food, and maybe I’m putting these here just because I take too many pictures. There were crab cheese meltaways as well, but I guess those went too fast. On the right is the new tasty treat we tried, Banana Pudding Bites, that we saw on Sandra Lee’s show.

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

We’re writing to you from Topeka, Kansas, where there are copious amounts of stuffing in the early phases of preparation. There was a breakfast casserole to keep our strengths up, coffee is being made continually, and I’m sure there are other things going on here that I’m not even aware of. My grandparents have it all under control.

We drove in last night from Rochester. And it is cold. We really were not expecting that. As we drove south, we ran into snow! And ice, but that is a tale of steering into the slides and otherwise being tediously alert. Ugh! But anyways, we are Minnesotans without even an icescraper in the car in the middle of a Kansas winter. Is that totally unprepared or what!

Today we are excited to be eating Thanksgiving food with our family, and we are waiting to watch our fantasy football players get us lots of points. It’s Zane vs. Andy and Ben/Paula vs. Darcy. Go Too Legit to Quit! Go Gryffindors!

And a Happy Thanksgiving to you all!

Prescotts, One of My Favorite Restaurants

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

Next time I may consider using a flash.

We’ve been going to Prescott’s in Rochester ever since they opened, and we’ve never been disappointed. We went again last weekend, and I was happy to see how popular they were, even if I had to wait for a table. As always, it was incredible. And I took a few pictures just to remember this meal by.

I also tried a bite of Andy’s pheasant. I don’t even like game, and it was quite good. I’m getting hungry just writing this.

Envelope Malfunction and Pancake Breakfast

Sunday, March 18th, 2007

Maybe it was a good idea in the beginning to get my return address printed on our wedding invitations. As we were addressing them, however, we discovered that a lot of the envelopes were already sealed together. Maybe as part of the printing process? We were able to unstick a lot of them, but in the end I think we’ll have enough of the printed envelopes. (We did order 25 extra outer envelopes, but they didn’t print my return address on those…another odd choice?) But, we’re almost done and I think we have enough so there’s nothing to complain about.

On a complete separate topic, we went to the pancake breakfast at Holy Spirit this morning. It was fabulous. I’m still full. There are a lot of great things about this pancake breakfast. The meal consisted of pancakes, eggs, sausage (patties), ham slices, and 3 different kinds of muffins. There was coffee, milk, and real orange juice. And they used real silverware, too, so that means I don’t have to save my plastic fork for another use or use my camping spork. :) If you missed this week, I’m sure there will be another one soon.