Saturday was a wonderful celebration of Rosie's 50th birthday, albeit it didn't actually fall on the right day. We were governed by when Piggin' Marvellous was able to do the lunch for family and the evening hogroast for a range of family, friends and neighbours. Simon, the roaster, was cheerful and efficient and, after roasting the pig, prepared mouth watering pork baps with coleslaw, new potatoes and Waldorf salad along with a roulade for the evening. This was supplemented with birthday cakes, the best made by a friend, and supplemented by 2 from Costco.
The lunch was lighter fare, with sandwiches, fruit kebabs, prawns in lettuce, chicken legs and so on.
The weather stayed fine for people to wander around the garden as well as mingling in the house and and there was some dancing. I gave various people lectures on chicken keeping (no surprise there) and I think some may take the plunge. The hens were very well behaved!
The last guests departed in the early morning and Rosie and I went over the day until about 4.45am to ensure we would remember it. We had a wonderful time so I hope all those who came also did. I think so. I just wish we could have extended the invitation list even further to encompass more people, but there have to be limits.
Monday, 20 July 2009
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This sounds like a truly phenomenal gastronomic extravaganza (avoiding the puerile Gallus Domesticus puns that seem to litter your blog comments). I hope that the meal was supplemented by ample reserves of "ex-melis Pyrus Malus" fermentations to complement verbal exerpts from Laurie Lee in honour of your betrothed.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment Gari.
ReplyDeleteLet me help those without a classical education:
'Gallus Gallus Domesticus' is a chicken and 'ex-melis Pyrus Malus' is 'apple cider', although the word 'apple' could be argued to be superfluous as all cider is made from apples. Please correct me if I am wrong. I understand that cider, in latin, is 'vinum ex-melis'. I love the reference to 'wine'.
What about Perry? Made from the everloveable fruit we all know from Vulgar Latin "pira, plural of pirum". Retalling at all good hostelries at an absurd sum of £3.50 a bottle. However for bargain basement afficionados, there is a cheeky vintage entitled "White Cider" (under various nomenclature) that is guaranteed to rot optic nerves and disintegrate meaninful relationships at £0.99/gallon. It's never seen an apple in its life - chemical chaos.
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