This week we have gone from celebration to celebration, and we still have more to come with Independence Day celebrations throughout the day and even
the weekend (omg I may pop). On Sunday I had my
graduation party and my family and friends came out to celebrate with me. Besides being super thrilled to see and talk with everyone who showed up, we were able to enjoy a feast.
My parents decided to get the party catered by
Beefalo Bob's so we had a barbecue of hotdogs, hamburgers, and chicken and veggie kabobs accompanied with sides of corn on the cob, potato salad, pasta salad, baked beans and corn bread. And don't forget about the appetizer and desserts. Lauren and I set up an awesome salsa bar including six different types of salsa and guac along with three types of chips (and yes I did make the description cards...remember to hit me up on
tringeldesign.com if you like my work). And for dessert we had a plethora of cupcakes from
Touche Touchet, a miniature dessert tray from
SugarBakers for those who didn't like cupcakes, and best of all a fabulous cookie cake homemade and decorated just for me by the infamous Lauren. Her cookie cakes are seriously the bomb, they taste delicious and always look amazing; she is truly talented.
We have been living on leftovers since my party, and have almost finished what we didn't give to grassroots...just in time to celebrate some more. Brenden turned 25 yesterday and I had a fun birthday night/present planned. Although his birthday fell on our
Thursday night date night dinner, I decided to push ahead with my plan and take him out for a surprise dinner at
Medieval Times. Since I hadn't upgraded us to the birthday pack I decided to take him out for an early birthday cupcake of his choice (again at Touche Touchet…because we didn't get enough sugar on Sunday). He chose a chocolate raspberry cupcake, which he thoroughly enjoyed, and I tried a pretty tasty chocolate peanut butter cookie.
Now when you go to
Medieval Times, they tell you to get there an hour early so you can mingle and pretty much spend more money buying drinks and souvenirs and
tchotchke's (yes I taught Brenden this word last night). And while we enjoyed ourselves in our hour of roaming and drinking, I know us and I decided we should get or make a little snack to hold us over while we waited for our dinner and show.
This week we made date night into an appetizer affair. We had a few options, but of course in honor of Brenden's big day, went with the most carb filled one we could find. We made cheese stuffed garlic bread. Yum! Cheese, garlic, and bread, do I really need to say anything else to convince you to make this. Negative. But in case, for some crazy reason you are still not convinced, I will tell you a little bit more about this amazing concoction.
This bread was pretty simple to make, the hardest part was getting all of the ingredients stuffed into the cuts we made in the loaf of bread. But the whole thing is baked, which means everything melts, so even if you can't stuff the cheese and garlic onion filling into the bread as much as you want, it will inevitably drip down to fill ever crevice with gooey goodness. Thus, every bite has garlic and cheese and goodness. There is no bad piece of this bread, honestly. I could have eaten the whole loaf as my dinner. But, be warned, this bread is very gluttonous, and while I want to make it again, it should probably only be prepared on special occasions…I need to limit myself somehow.
Fortunately I knew there was a feast coming so I was able to control my intake of bread and butter (did I mention the recipe called for caramelized onions, that makes it healthy right?!). So, with our belly's happily filled with a not so fancy but totally indulgent appetizer we headed off to watch the jousting and eat chicken with our hands.
