Pre-wedding Thanksgiving feast - preparations

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4:13 PM The bread is out of the oven! Stay tuned as the sweet potatoes, which have just been placed in the oven, should be coming out soon.

3:46 PM Freddy has just taken the stage and sprayed the bread. This creates a well crusted bread, with a delicate inside.

Meanwhile Li-yi has finished the mushroom prep, while Kevin reserved a spot in the oven-queue just before the queue was declared feature-frozen.












It's been a lovely morning at the Barry house on Newgard as we intersperse food preparation with final details for the wedding. Last night, Janet and Freddy finished up the jigsaw-puzzle of who sits where and Janet typed the names for placecards in an elegant wedding-like script. This morning we printed out the cards and now Janet and Carolyn "maid of honor" and Pam are sorting into alphabetical piles. They seem to be enjoying themselves and it is good practice for us all as the names from the Lepore side become more and more familiar: Tolomeo, Chiappetti, Zbiegien and Bahr. And Lepore, of course, plenty of them, mostly named Anthony.

Meanwhile Kevin and Li-yi are working out some sort of algorithm for recognizing objects while doing robotic mapping, and Pam and I have been doing the most important thing: cooking.

So far the kitchen has produced Pat's "wellness" soup chock full of vegetables, white beans, pasta rings and hot peppers, of course. We've been eating that for lunch. For dinner, Pam has roasted the butternut squash for the spring rolls, chopped the pumpkin seeds and cilantro, sliced the green onions and prepared the special sauce.

And Freddy? He's mixed and kneaded the dough for the Cuban bread, or is it French bread? It's in a big bowl right now rising, and when Freddy peeked under the cloth earlier he seemed satisfied.

Kevin and Li-yi are now starting on "some kind of treat" made out of rice flour, plus stuffed mushrooms. I may make some long beans in red sauce if the mood strikes me.

We're not going to starve, that's for sure. Not today, not tomorrow, not on the wedding day. We'll be eating very nicely I'd say.

More later.