{"id":1581,"date":"2012-06-23T10:44:34","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T10:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/letsnomnom.wordpress.com\/?p=1581"},"modified":"2017-03-25T04:19:09","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T04:19:09","slug":"reunion-brunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/23\/reunion-brunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Archi Reunion Brunch"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Brunch\"<\/a>We invited some friends over for brunch while Wen was visiting. It basically turned into a mini archi reunion with lots of food and a summery cocktail. Such fun! I have, unfortunately, lost the little scrap of paper that I scribbled the menu on. Hopefully I’m not forgetting any of the yum yums from brunch. Oh, this was when my new hair made its debut!<\/p>\n

A light, refreshing Israeli Salad<\/strong> from a recent issue of Vegetarian Times<\/a>. Cucumbers, tomatoes, bell peppers, parsley and green onions. Such beautiful, bright colors. Unfortunately, it requires a lot of chopping and dicing. Wen spent about 3 hours washing and chopping! If it wasn’t such a pain to dice the veggies, I would make this all the time. (The strawberries in the photo below were for the cocktail, not the salad.)\"Salad<\/a>\"Classic<\/a>We also made Spinach Croquettes<\/strong> based on a recipe for Zucchini Croquettes in Vegetarian Times. Using spinach instead of zucchini resulted in an unappealing color. The croquettes also didn’t hold together well, and I had to overcook them to get them to retain their shape. The Greek yogurt dip was delicious though. A nice substitute to sour cream.<\/p>\n

One of my favorites to make for any kind of gathering: Buttery Butter Biscuits<\/a><\/strong>! Even though I’ve made these biscuits many times and followed the recipe very closely, I accidentally forgot to add salt. Ugh. I attempted to rescue the recipe by adding salt after the dough came out of the freezer, but that didn’t work out well. Tasted okay though. \"Buttery<\/a>Angela brought a delicious Plum Tart<\/strong>! For some reason, it kept getting mistaken for a rhubarb tart. Mmm, tart! \"Plum<\/a>Smitten Kitchen<\/a> has a great blueberry muffin<\/a> recipe that works with both fresh and frozen berries. Strawberry Cinnamon Muffins<\/strong>: fresh strawberries, vanilla yogurt and a lot of cinnamon. Uhh, the foil muffin liners were terrible with this recipe. When I arranged the muffins on the cupcake stand, I hid the ugly ones in the back. Hah.\"Strawberry<\/a>Becca and Leon brought a Tomato & Watermelon Salad<\/strong>. It never would have occurred to me to combine both of those ingredients to make a salad. There you go, a refreshing and very red summer salad! I believe this recipe was from Epicurious<\/a>. \"Tomato,<\/a>Crustless Vegetarian Quiche<\/strong>, heavy on the veggies. Half an onion, 1 tomato and 12oz of broccoli, only used 3 eggs. I didn’t bother chopping the broccoli. Mmm, big pieces of broccoli always make me happy. \"Crustless<\/a>Hmm, Open Face Breakfast Sandwiches<\/strong>. Half an English muffin (whole wheat, I think), slice of cheddar cheese, seared tomatoes, topped with a poached egg. Meh, the sandwiches were so so, but the poached eggs were great. I made the eggs the night before and reheated them before assembly. I have a few tricks for perfectly poached eggs: use a shallow wok\/paella pan instead of a large pot, add some vinegar to the water, crack each egg into a separate mug, cook for 4 minutes. Perfect whites, perfect yolks. Win! \"Open<\/a>Mac & Cheese<\/a><\/strong>! Not really a brunch food, but who cares. Super rich, super creamy, super fatty. Mmm, yes. I like very much. This recipe has come a long way. Putting it in the broiler for 5 – 10 minutes was the perfect finishing touch. \"Mac<\/a>Last, but not least, the Sparkling Strawberry Lemonade Cocktail<\/strong>. We used a mixture of frozen and fresh berries. If you microwave frozen berries for a minute or two, they’ll release delicious juices, which is ideal for a fruity cocktail. We let the lemonade, berries, berry juices, lemon slices, sugar and rum (half a liter!) sit overnight in a punch bowl. Added more sugar and an entire bottle of sparkling wine before serving. Delicious and deadly. \"Sparkling<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We invited some friends over for brunch while Wen was visiting. It basically turned into a mini archi reunion with lots of food and a summery cocktail. Such fun! I have, unfortunately, lost the little scrap of paper that I scribbled the menu on. Hopefully I’m not forgetting any of the yum yums from brunch. Oh, this was when my new hair made its debut! A light, refreshing Israeli Salad from a recent issue of Vegetarian Times. Cucumbers, tomatoes, bell peppers, parsley and green onions. Such beautiful, bright colors. Unfortunately, it requires a lot of chopping and dicing. Wen spent about 3 hours washing and chopping! If it wasn’t such a pain to dice the veggies, I would make this all the time. (The strawberries in the photo below were for the cocktail, not the salad.)We also made Spinach Croquettes based on a recipe for Zucchini Croquettes in Vegetarian Times. Using spinach instead of zucchini resulted in an unappealing color. The croquettes also didn’t hold together well, and I had to overcook them to get them to retain their shape. The Greek yogurt dip was delicious though. A nice substitute to sour cream. One of my favorites to make for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3355],"tags":[91,228,351,385,481,698,806,1689,1907,2209,2212,2372,2450],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/dsc01221.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}