{"id":829,"date":"2013-04-30T03:09:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T03:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kandynolesstevens.com\/?p=829"},"modified":"2013-04-30T03:09:45","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T03:09:45","slug":"one-tired-momma-and-lots-of-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realsweetgrace.com\/blog\/?p=829","title":{"rendered":"One tired momma and lots of fun!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Compared to where I grew up, I live in a small town.\u00a0 Right here I feel like I should insert a perennial Hee- Haw favorite.\u00a0 Marshall, MN \u2013 population 13,700 \u2013 SALUTE! More than once, comments have been made to our family with noses turned up, \u201cWhat do you do for fun there?\u201d<\/p>\n

The truthful answer is we make our own.\u00a0 We spend time with friends doing all sorts of things, but nine times out of ten our fun has some food component.\u00a0 My favorite plans (and meals) are the ones that get put together about eleven minutes before they happen.\u00a0 It might be a chance meeting in the grocery store and then \u2013 Voila! \u2013 we have the makings of an impromptu party.<\/p>\n

I relish small town living, and for me, personally, the only major drawback is the missed opportunities involving food, particularly fine dining. Another even smaller town restaurant had coursed meals for years, but the chef moved away, much to my broken heart.\u00a0 We loved driving down and enjoying a relaxing evening among friends and strangers alike.\u00a0 But those glory days are now\u00a0done.<\/p>\n

Over the weekend, I had the opportunity to put my love of food \u2013 cooking, eating, and fine dining \u2013 to good use.\u00a0 The result was an eight coursed meal for two special young people in my life for their first prom.\u00a0 I posted a few comments on Facebook about my busy day, which elicited quite a few inquiries as to what I was doing.\u00a0 So, I am using today\u2019s blog to tell a story of food, but it is more so a story of two families who created their own fun for one afternoon.<\/p>\n

All courses were homemade, except for the bread (which I simply just ran out of time) and cheese (but reassured I do know the cows).<\/p>\n

Course One \u2013lemon sorbet<\/p>\n

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Course Two \u2013 fresh fruit bowl<\/p>\n

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Course Three \u2013 bacon wrapped scallops<\/p>\n

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Course Four \u2013 strawberry gazpacho<\/p>\n

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Course Five \u2013 baby lettuce, pecans, red onions, feta cheese with homemade lemon balm\/basil\/blueberry vinaigrette<\/p>\n

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Course Six \u2013 Assorted cheeses, bread, dipping oil with pesto<\/p>\n

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Course Seven \u2013 Grilled T-bone steaks with steamed purple and gold potatoes served with steamed yellow and green summer squash with dill and sea salt.<\/p>\n

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Course Eight \u2013 Mini-cheesecakes with fresh berries<\/p>\n

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In the end, the sun was shining, the prom goers and staff (parents and siblings) were well fed, and many laughs ensued.\u00a0 So what do we do for fun in a small town?\u00a0 You\u00a0never can tell\u00a0what we come up with next!<\/p>\n

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Compared to where I grew up, I live in a small town.\u00a0 Right here I feel like I should insert a perennial Hee- Haw favorite.\u00a0 Marshall, MN \u2013 population 13,700 \u2013 SALUTE! More than once, comments have been made to our family with noses turned up, \u201cWhat do you do for fun there?\u201d The truthful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[123,132,178,217,497,517,569],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realsweetgrace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realsweetgrace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realsweetgrace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realsweetgrace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realsweetgrace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.realsweetgrace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realsweetgrace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realsweetgrace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realsweetgrace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}