Post-Party

[mrissa]

Saffron buns for breakfast must be some kind of metaphor for decadence. I also have a bunch of saffron bun breakfasts ahead of me. When markgritter and timprov are awake, we'll talk about how many of them I should freeze and how many they think they'll eat before they go suboptimal. I had Mark throw the last cut-up bits of baguette out to the birds after they'd been sitting in the air all night, but I don't particularly want to throw lussekatter to the birds. That's the sort of thing for which they overthrow your kingdom, I think.

People came. There was enough food. It really didn't look like that much food on paper (I had a list; of course I had a list), but when careswen and mmerriam showed up with cookies, we had a mad moment of scramble to place the cookies. We have a few leftovers here and there. We will be having stir-fry with the peppers and peapods. Possibly more than one kind of stir-fry. Shish-kabobs. Pasta with pepper sauce. Maybe red jungle fowl's joy. I did that on purpose. I have no idea what we're going to do with the cauliflower, for the simple reason that I'm the only person in the house who likes cauliflower all that much, and even I don't want to lunch on it exclusively.

I went to bed at around 1:45, with the dishwasher running and the food safely stowed or disposed of and the guests all gone home. I woke up again at 6:15 as usual and was able to push my body to 7:00, but then I was up. It's not that I'm not tired, and it's not that I have so much to do today. (I have plenty to do, but I'm not convinced that I'm doing much of it today. Some days need to be like that.) My body just woke me up as usual. And now you know why I don't generally stay up all that late.

For those of you who were here: is anybody missing a long, black wrap? (greatestofnates, can you make sure it's not your friend's?) Also we found a nuk, but there was really only one possibility for whose that is, now that Robin is big enough to drive. (At least, that's what he told his dad.) So ladysea, songwind, next time we see you, we should have a nuk to give back to you. Mostly the give-it-back basket is less full than it was yesterday morning, though, not more, and that's a good thing.

Comments

[pameladean]

If we'd known, we could have taken the cauliflower away.

However, my mother hates cauliflower and she loves it when roasted a particular way. I can shoot you the recipe if you like. It's basically a ton of garlic cloves, olive oil, lemon juice, salt, pepper, and an oven set at a high temperature. Surrounding the cauliflower, I hasten to add.

Cauliflower is good curried, too, but it still tastes like cauliflower then.

P.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, do please send it. It's worth a try, and if no one else likes it, the worst case scenario is the same as before.

(Well, the worst case is that our electric oven starts a fire that hits a gas main, or maybe something with ninjas. But the worst likely case.)

[pariyal.livejournal.com]

I don't particularly want to throw lussekatter to the birds. That's the sort of thing for which they overthrow your kingdom, I think.

Well, if the birds overthrow your kingdom, at least you have the satisfaction that you fed them well enough for them to pull it off!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Hee!

(I did mean the people; it just felt very Marie Antoinette, the prospect of throwing saffron out the back door for the wildlife. But I suspect you knew that.)

[ladysea.livejournal.com]

I realized we forgot the binky, at about the time we got to 35. Spud was slumped in his seat, with a dazed expression on his face. LOL

After I took our friend and her children home, I figured it would be foolish to make a stop for a binky, so I just drove home. =P

I had fun. THank you guys for a lovely evening. =)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Glad you had a good time! We did, too. Poor dazed baby. And I forgot to give him a balloon, too. Sigh.

[sraun]

I had lots of fun!

The saffron buns were OK - a touch dry for my taste. Slice them in half and butter them, they'd probably have been really good!

I was apparently more tired than I thought when I went to bed last night - the four-foots woke me up to let them outside about 10:00AM, I went back to bed and didn't get up until 2:30PM!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how I'd feel about butter and the saffron buns. I just had a lot of cold milk with mine, and that was good.

Sorry we wore you out -- hope Irene doesn't think we're bad influences!

[sraun]

I don't think it was just your party that wore me out - I think this was coming on for a while.

Have you thought of cubing saffron buns, drying them out some, and making bread pudding with them?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

That's a fabulous idea! Nobody would eat bread pudding here this week with leftover berry crisp and chocolate cake, but not every week is like this week, and they could be frozen for awhile until I wanted to do it. Neat, thanks!

[sraun]

I adore bread pudding, so it's a default answer to 'what do I do with this left-over bread-like stuff'. Glad you like the idea!

And it would solve the dry problem too!

[careswen.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the fun party! I hope Mark feels appropriately celebrated.

I believe the wrap is lydy's.... I seem to recall her wearing one early in the eve, but not wearing it later.... I notice pretty shawly things, like wraps, I do.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Mark seems to feel more fêted than fetid, so that's all to the good. Glad you had fun!