This week's YaYa get-together was a little different than the usual Friday nights on Mitchell's patio! Carol offered her brother her house and yard for his wedding. While Carol and her family cut up a lot of the food, four YaYa's arrived at her house on Saturday, prepared to act like they belonged on the Food Network. We cut onions and cried, we melted chocolate for the chocolate fondue fountain (although we burnt the first batch--and no, Beth, I was not in charge of that!). We made a wonderful Michigan salad with Romaine lettuce, dried cranberries blue cheese, cherry tomatoes and walnuts. We created beautiful platters of Roma tomatoes and mozarella cheese dribbled with olive oil and fresh chopped basil. We prepared mountains of pasta salad amd fruit salad. We put out the wonderful smoked turkey, beef brisket and pork prepared and delivered by a caterer from Jackson. There was no traditional wedding cake but rather baklava and chocolate layer cake for dessert.There were some very significant ah-ha moments during the nearly eight hours we were in attendance. We worked very hard, but we had SO much fun working together. The wine provided by the hostess helped! Carol truly experienced how deeply our YaYa friendship has developed--she just left it to us as we wanted her to and enjoyed herself. And, lastly, her family and family friends commented on Carol's catering company-----maybe we've come up with alternate employment options!
PS: About the picture: only a true friend would change your dog's diaper!
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