Summer is arriving in my house like a flock of seagulls on a leftover picnic. Fast and furious. Looking backward from the end of this week: Saturday night – a 25-person family and friends graduation party at our house, and that morning a birthday party for my 8-year old nephew at the bowling alley. Friday, the last day of school for Kid Two, is traditionally a beach day, but first I’ll be delivering a 1400-piece DVD duplication project I’ve just started – a rush job, the timing somewhat inconvenient, but I take work as it comes. Tomorrow is Kid One’s high school graduation, and I still have to pick up a few packs of tissues for our misty eyes. Tonight I’m taking dinner to an elderly neighbor (a story for another day), and in a few minutes am leaving to pick up my parents, sister, brother-in-law, niece, and nephew from the airport.
Convenience foods seem very appealing right now. I’m thankful for bag salad, rotisserie chickens, ripe fruit, bread and cheese, and quart bags of bolognese sauce and soup (unlabeled and unremembered) frozen in the recent past.
What I’m really craving, though, but will have to wait for, is this Leek and Potato Salad my friend posted on Parsenip. If any of you have time to make it this week, let me know how it tastes!
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If I could make the salad and ship it to you, I would!! Enjoy all of your celebrations – it’s a big deal!
That salad looks amazing–I may have to make it this weekend!
congrats on your son’s graduation~ a true rite of passage. I have no doubt that you will handle it all with panache and put on great spreads. I remember that scrumptious guacamole you made– was it last winter– I bet that would be a hit. Thirty odd years ago this month I made vichyssoise with milk from my own goats, coq au vin, and cheese cake with my new Kitchen Aid– for my own wedding. Needless to say the bride was a bit done in, fading early!
Jenne, you painted an entire story in one sentence. (and a great one it is!) I thought about your wedding cooking frenzy all week – it made me smile and shake my head on occasion but it did get me through the craziness of the week. What an awesome image.
We had 50 for our graduation party (double yours, but then I had twins graduating, so that was only fair). We did your basic Jewish brunch: lox, smoked white fish, bagels, tuna salad, desserts (made by my dad), fruit, and noodle kugel (made by yours truly — the only thing I actually cooked!). Congrats to you and yours.
I was thinking about you last week, Susan, wondering if you were having a party. 50 people (!) Good work! How was your noodle kugel?
Noodle kugel was fab. Everybody always loves it. It’s a real sweet treat, and easy.