Meatfest recap

it was the best ever!
but don't we say that every year? and every year it is pretty much true we had a great gaggle of folks attend and they all brought something yummy food items to eat and oddly enough for the first year that I can recall we had no meat leftover the next day, luckily the chicken leg quarters never left the fridge so David manned the grill early on Memorial Day & grilled those bad boys right up. As usual my panic was for naught & everything came together well at the end..except for my ugly pie which baked perhaps 10 minutes too long and just did not make it....

Meatfest panic sets in

uh huh it's tomorrow and did I get my to-do list done slow & steady all week as planned? Why of course not hell I still have to run to the grocery store & finish picking up a few things or maybe I just wait and go first thing in the morning...nothing like waiting till the absolute last minute is there?

Meastfest 2011

good grief it's next Sunday and what am I doing..cleaning? organizing? menu planing? shopping? um nope I'm catching up on my DVR's Real Housewives programs, Fingers crossed it all comes together at some point this week!

Meatfest 2010

our annual ode to all things meat was yesterday and we served up ribs, chicken, hotdogs, hamburgers, chicken & bbq pork to around 35 peoples ranging from a mere 11 weeks old to 40 somethingish. Tons of food and delish beer from Heinzelmannchen Brewery in NC and good time was had by one and all...well I had fun I hope everyone else did too. A sign of the times would be the party clearing out before 9 now that we are all grown up with kids that have bedtimes the parties do not go in the wee hours of the night like they use to although Pete did fire the grill up again around 9 for one more round of burgers & hotdogs. We know some really great people that I wish we saw more regularly and most definitely more than once a year!

beer run

Pete and I sojourned to NC today to fetch a keg of beer for Sunday's Meatfest festivities. I was reluctant to give up a good portion of party prep time but it turned out to be productive trip as in the course of our travels came across a bakery thrift store to buy buns & chips then we hit Sams on the way home then with one rather quick trip to the grocery the party was properly supplied. It was a beautiful day which made the trip very enjoyable we are already talking of heading over with David & C and making a day of it later in the summer. All that is left is cleaning the diaster that is my house..hope no one brings their white glove we might fail that test....

Meatfest '09

prepping everything this morning, already made one grocery store run David has offered to make the next one for odds and ends as well as ice. Sickness threw a wrench into my planning but thankfully I am better but way off schedule as far as where I wanted to be organizationally(is that a word?? spell check likes it so must be). I am not doing any of the recipes I had wanted to try but 'ol standards are out in force, rice dish, corn bread, baked beans and ugly pie of course. I am totally cheating with lemonade mix but promise the real deal next summer! and last but not least meat lots and lots of meat, ribs, chicken, pork butt, hotdogs and hamburgers...
I am looking forward to a fun day with with friends even though we will be missing more than a few today..

as much as I complain about not having enough time at home

why is it I am about to climb the walls this being only day 2 at home? tomorrow will be day 3 because yes I have strep throat. Of course I do.. I have a million things to do before Sunday's annual Memorial Day Meatfest celebration and an unknown number of folks gathering to attend and I have strep throat.
UGH!
and this was the year I was going to have everything shopped and prepped before the weekend so I would not have to run around the day before like a chicken with my head cut off...ah well not so much this year maybe next?

the fair is back!

it started last night and we all know how much I love the fair! TVA fair was loads of fun and we had a great time last year. Why on earth had I not gone before? Plans are for a trip next Saturday with the gang I kinda wish we were going today but C has a baseball game this morning and I think we are cooking out this afternoon weather permitting I suppose. Not to mention he has school work to catch up on(more on that a later time) It was such a crazy summer that we didn't get the chance to cookout half as much as we usually do. I think we are going to try to put together one more big cookout it won't be a Meatfest but we'll see what we can come up with.

laundry debacle

and debacle it is.
I was doing laundry yesterday evening as I am wont to do umm most evenings.
I check pockets because in the past I have laundered a wallet, crayons, a pen, pay stubs, endless tissues, a lighter, cash, pokemon cards, matchbox cars you name it has been in our laundry. Apparently I missed a pocket last night.
Empty items into the dryer I noticed an odd flavorful odor and pulling out the last pair of shorts I found the spice jar from Sunday's meatfest extravaganza sitting in the bottom of my washer and of course it was open. So in fact my laundry smelled like Beer BBQ spice fantastic for chicken not so much for jeans....

post Meatfest

or as my brother said the day after should be called "purgefest"
Sunday was a successful party in my estimation if anyone did not get enough to eat it was their own damn fault!
Meat galore ribs, chicken, hotdogs, cole slaw, macaroni salad, potato salad, baked beans, mac & cheese, tomato salad, corn bread thingy, olives and more so very much more! Don't even get me started on the desserts super yummy stuff-there was food everywhere in that kitchen.
new blogging buddies missy & her sister and their families fit right into the fold they are a little twisted like the rest of us so I knew they would mesh well with our little crowd. And oddly enough not such new buddies at all apparently Jeni & I would have met before-about a million years ago so yes it truly is a small world after all..
Monday was a fantastically lazy day I did a little bit of clean up, D worked in the afternoon & C spent the day next door playing in the neighbor's pool with his buddy who is their grandson. It was nice I napped a little, read some of my book and re-watched the last season of Sex & the City in preparation for girls night out and the new film on Friday. Today is is back to the grind and adjusting to the summer schedule around the house day camp for C each day and summer school for me starting tomorrow-if you are a religious sort throw up a prayer or 2 for my survival probability & stats for about 8 hours a week I am going to need all the help I can get!

Y Yearly Memorial Day Meatfest '08

next year I having tee shirts made or maybe koozies....
so I suspect right now we are last minute cleaning, running to Kroger for ice and whatever else I have forgotten to buy.
I am guessing my nice patio furniture is still not put together and D is busy putting together the new grill...just guessing here.
Update and photos on Tuesday!!!

get thee to a grocer

About a month ago I started my lists for Meatfest '08 and yet I really need to go buy some ribbies for Sunday
and burgers
and hotdogs
and stuff to make potato salad & vinegar pie
and lots of other running around needs doing as well
these wonderful organizational lists are not very helpful when you don't actually do the stuff you have written down

holiday weekend

is officially over as I sit at working, goofing off & updating my blog. We really did have a good time maybe not so restful but lots of fun. My BIL hosted a crawfish boil at my MIL's house on saturday which was lots of fun and made D & I want to have another one at our house. Like last time there was way too much food left over although my mil was smart & started taking food to her neighbors and my Sil brought a bunch to the nursing home she works at. Then as I previously blogged our cookout was loads of fun, maybe too much as I did suffer a hangover most of yesterday. D was working & C's friend was visiting his grandparents who live next door so he spent most of the day at their house swimming, playing video games and something to do with guns-not real guns just ones that seem real noisy. The after party party yesterday evening was very low-key just leftovers no new cooking which means I have to find a place for the 10 lb box of ribs sitting in my fridge. I didn't exactly mean to clean up the yard but I did. The badminton net had fallen down so I decided to put it up so we could actually use it again and that started the ball rolling as far as cleaning so we have a back yard again and we don't have to follow Oscar around making sure that he doesn't pee on chairs or grills or toys. Then this morning as I got ready for work I had a panic moment or two when I couldn't find my ring. I knew I didn't wear it yesterday but it wasn't in the only 2 places I normally keep it no I found it in the kitchen where we normally throw the cell phones & keys. Yes I guess I did drink too much vodka on sunday

old lemonade injury

my forearms still hurt from squeezing a million lbs of lemons for yesterdays lemonade...

in memoriam

of meat, specifically 21 lbs of chicken, 10 lbs of ribs, 3 lbs of hotdogs & about 20 or so hamburgers. We had our annual memorial day cookout yesterday and that's the meat count plus dips, hummus, pasta salad, baked beans, my mother's famous cornbread casserole thingy(always a big hit) and various brownies, key lime pie as well as vinegar pie(ugly pie to those in the know). It was a really great party I had a lot of fun & hope everyone else did although the kitchen this morning not so fun to look out & I am considering running out to Target to get another garbage can because the 2 we have are really full & pick-up day isn't till Thursday. Rumor has a few people coming over today to eat leftovers & cook the 2nd 10 lb box of ribs which never made it out of the fridge yesterday..