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.

Black eyed peas with smoked turkey
“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

I’d have to say the highlights with a ton of feed back were the Chicken cacciatore  with mixed vegetable red wine sauce, Prosciutto “Carbonara” with Haricot Vert, three olive tapenade, and the shrimp lemon cilantro salad

 

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.

 
We thought my brother wasn’t going to make it to the shower because he’s a fireman and he had to work but he surprised the family and made it! My sister almost cried it was so awesome. I’m so lucky to have this truly amazing family! They are the inspiration for so much of my cooking my strength and love and I’m so glad that I’m able to be there for them in this amazing time of celebration I love you guys so much!

 

Kimberly
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