this is just general information for your own records. Do with it what you will.
- They asked me to bring the Potato Salad. They must know about us and Potato Salad. More on sides later.
- it was...oddly mixed, even though it was a smaller gathering. Besides the Host family and a few of their relatives, it was myself, a Korean dude, a
mixed some kinda Latin couple, and an older white man who had some kind of accent I couldn't tall you what it was.
- there was hella space because it was in the backyard, and (listen to THIS chit...) they recently bought the house next to theirs.
How TF, you ask? Because their neighbor was a super old lady who got tired of having "too much house" to care for after her
kids grew up and husband died - so she brought a condo, and sold it to them for cheap because she always liked their family.
Because of such, a lot of this took place on grass, so hardly anybody was wearing shoes. You know they have something against shoes.
- There was NO MUSIC. At all.
- I kinda knew beforehand what kind of food I would be getting because the Hosts are kinda healthy-ish. Good for them.
They grow berries. Therefore, there were a lot of berries they were trying to hustle off. They had:
*Bruschetta bread with Goat Cheese and a berry relish as an appetizer
*Spring Mix salad, with berries you could add
*Quinoa salad
*my stow-bought Potato salad (there were no berries in this)
*...the star of the show, doe: They made a Berry Brown Betty (translation: Cobbler). Fammo - this is the best damn cobbler I ever had.
I could never explain this to my Grandmama, thank goodness is no longer in this realm. It had 3 different berries (Blue, Black, Rasp) with
Confectioner's Sugar all over the Gingerbread Crust, which was not too crunchy or too doughy. Cra-zy. I had two bowls of that ish.
- Bruh...they only had ONE MEAT.
AND on top of that - it was CORNED BEEF!!
I will give them this. That was the best Corned Beef I ever had...but that's because I normally don't opt for Corned Beef.
They had a Restaurant Grade Meat Smoker (pause), and they had the whole side of beef in there since the morning.
Yes, it was tender. Yes, it was juicy. Yes I ate it. But Bruh - it's muffuccin' Corned Beef. I was not expecting that at no cookout,
especially as the Chief Entree.
- What did we talk about? Guess.
Did you say Craft Beer? Yes. What did we drink? Guess.
Did you say Craft Beers? Yes.
Did they have anything else to drink besides Craft Beers? Water.
So yeah - it was where to get Craft Beer, the best Craft Beers, fishing and hunting while drinking Craft Beer.
And baseball because the Royals are doing okay.
For a brief minute, we talked about local politics - but that's only because it had to do with baseball and Craft Beer.
- They had a pit for a Bonfire also. It was 70+ degrees out, but that doesn't matter, these muffuccas push bonfire like weight.
So yeah that's mostly it. Beware.
