I think I'm still full....

Saturday was a hit! "As usual" said everyone in attendance :)

It was a fun evening filled with kid laughter, carving fun and of course a ton of food!

I added another roast to the menu as I couldn't find a single pork loin roast big enough to feed 11. Instead of doing the Rosemary-Garlic recipe on it as well, I decided to make a Pork Roast with Cardamom Mushroom Sauce (which I found on Simply Recipes). DELICIOUS!!!! It was sooo good! I highly recommend this recipe! Cardamom is expensive, but we have a place kind of like a farmers market whole foods combo that I was able to get about 2 tablespoons of it for $.95 vs. $10 for a little bottle.


With the other roast, I highly recommend adding some chicken broth to the bottom of the roasting pan as it ended up being a little dry.

Overall the meal was very delicious! For dessert we had a 3 layer apple cake with buttercream frosting, chocolate chess pie and a lemon meringue pie. Yum, yum, yum!

Sneak Peak

I have figured out what I'm making for the annual Fall Dinner and Pumpkin Carving Dinner!

Want to know what we're having?

Too bad, you'll have to wait :) just kidding...

We will be feasting upon:
Rosemary-Garlic Pork loin roast
Roasted Carrots and sweet potatos
Caramelized apples
Green beans (this may end up being a green bean casserole...)
Mashed regular potatos
Rolls
Deviled eggs
Salad


And for Dessert:
Three-Layer apple cake
A mixed berry, pound cake, pudding thing that is really good. I don't know if it has a name, but my friend V and her mom make it for their catering business and for family functions, so I'm stealing another recipe from them :)

Should be another yummy meal!

Giddy Up!

Another fun weekend!

Where to begin...I guess Friday after work is a good start!

Friday when I got home I decided that I needed to chill for a little bit. I had plans of going riding as soon as I got home, but I was a bit tired, so I sat around for about 45 minutes watching an old western on tv. Headed on down to the barn about 6 and rode my buddy Blaze for an hour and a half. We had a good time! It was really wet still, so we were trying to stay in the dry bits, but we did a little slipping and slidding when we tried some fast turns, yee-haw!

Saturday morning I had to work until 12:30 after which I quickly rode to the house to pick up a saddle before meeting one of the nurse practitioners from my office at her house to go on a ride with her horses. I believe his name was Trapper, and he was a lot of fun! I rode with them for about an hour and a half then took off to go watch the NC State game....it was depressing. They had a good first half though! I left around half time to pick up mom and go to a charity roping and dinner. We arrived much later than we inteded so we had to pick at scraps. W and the stable girl, T, were already there and enjoying themselves (W more than T). So we joined in and watched til the end of the auction before heading home and to the heat of our cars.

Sunday was another fun filled day! T picked Blaze and I up at 9 and we headed off to a (different) charity trail ride and luncheon/dinner). The ride was beautiful and fun with an excellent hot dog dinner waiting behind one of the trail bends for us. It was so neat! We rode for about 5 hours and the weather was absolutely gorgeous! A little cool in the shade and surprisingly hot in the sun when we would stop for breaks. I even got sun on my chest and face! The whole weekend was topped off by a big slice of German Chocolate cake (one of the many items purchased at the auction Saturday night).

Can we rinse and repeat?? I had so much fun!

Here's the only picture I got of the whole weekend. The is of T and her horse Deak (sp?) with some of the many riders beyond her on one of our breaks.


Side note* I am definitely my mothers daughter! When we stopped for hot dogs, I somehow managed to drop my dog, (ketchup, mustard and all) right onto my lap....good times :)