Kitchen Update

The kitchen is almost complete! At least done enough for a party!!!
Jennifer, oldest daughter now living Manhattan, came home for the first time in 5 months. She of course has seen pictures of the kitchen work in progress, but seemed impressed with her mother and sisters handwork in person.
So a BBQ was hosted Thursday with family from both or all sides of our family (Wilbur's & Craig's), some new friends, old friends and great food!
Did I mention in the past that we all cook? The 3 of us all have worked in the food industry all our lives, so......

Tiffany cooked most of the BBQ starting on Wednesday night when she cut 8 or 10 whole chickens in 1/2, de-boned them and made a couple of different rubs to marinate in overnight and put a big pot of bake beans in the cast iron dutch oven to cook over night.

Jennifer peeled a ton of 'tators for salad, while planning the rest of the menu. Lists were made of food to buy and things to do…. and cleaning and more cleaning was done Wednesday night and Thursday morning.

We also made Portabella mushrooms with homemade Garlic Sausage (from P&L Market), Brochette, fresh veggie platter,cheese and crackers, homemade dips, etc for Hors d'Oeurves, Rizotto salad with fiddle heads, coleslaw, and a big 'ole bucket of drinks.
I had picked up a new power washer Tuesday (yippee) from Snow's Saw Shop (1500 psi) and the girls set out cleaning the deck and power washing. Of course for Courtney (my unofficial 3rd daughter) and I had to work in the office thru most of the cleaning, but by the time they got done, the deck and lawn area looked great and we got a lot of work done in the office 


The girls set up tables on the lawn "Martha Stewart a la Dexter" style, with 2 saw horses and a heavy wood door. We had a smaller door that was transformed into the buffet table and chairs were set out for outside dining. Jen went down to my Dad's to pick some fresh rhubarb for cobbler (her sister made) and Dad picked some awesome apple blossoms for our tables. We serve the Hors d’Oeurves on the deck and food on the lawn.

Well anyway, it was a nice time and to get back to the kitchen, when night fall was descending we all gathered around the new island in the new red kitchen to tell tales and such.

It was a great way to break in the new digs, with great food, even better company and my girls home together!