Vini, Vidi...hmmmm... ate drank and made merry....
The annual gathering of what Dahn has taken to calling framily ( family and friends that are family..) all up in the wilds of Vermont/New York. Ports of call from all over this year, East coast, West Coast, I think all five boroughs of NYC and Jersey, South Texas, South Carolina, Michigan,D.C. SoCal....on and on ( very much missed was the Nashville flair! ) All sorts of accents.THIS year with the added bonus of a crazy LOUD black hound dog.
[ a quick note on process here, I want to share every pic I took with everyone who was up there, but not really sure what the easiest way for me to do that will be, so that even the most computer un-savy ( me ) could get the photos. If you see something on here, you specifically want, and you can't embiggen or print, just send me a email and I will send you the photo .
For those new to the k+b : " What's up with all the pictures of food ??"
ALL OF THE SUNDAY PHOTOS
MONDAY AUGUST 15th
( rain, so much rain, beverage of choice white wine and some sort of funky scotch )
Your Daily Koda
The rain pushed us inside, I think we were
still at 28/30 people..
Our Chefs for the Night.
The Cousins
They chose to do an IRON CHEF themed meal
with the secret ingredient being fresh Summer corn.
They worked super hard and it showed in the meal!!
The big silver bowls are the appetizers,
fresh popped corn, one with white truffle oil,
the other MOST wonderful bacon and maple added
A corn salad with fingerling potatoes,
one of the best things we ate all week!!
Dave and Neil
Myles explaining what we are about to eat
Corn and leek soup
Tacos and this YUMMY roasted corn dusted in Cayenne pepper
that was just off the charts good
Corn Cake with two homemade ice creams
strawberry and TDF Chocolate Peanut butter!
Koda and D.o.g. get a treat
Stayed up very late, drinking and talking global economics with a London School of Economics grad. Kyle/ Wine/ Economics.... Yes, I need to send him a nice muffin basket.
ALL OF THE MONDAY PHOTOS
TUESDAY AUGUST 16th
( still raining, boc: more white wine and appletinis )
Toebie still here, there was an incident with a chicken, that we are never to speak of again.
breakfast!
( always good to have NYC folk around! )
Kiara thinking she is a tiny tiny poodle
David Dean's night to cook
a lovely shrimp starter
Salmon in Parchment and
mellon with pruchitto
The Davids
peach and blueberry cobbler
Koda and my shoes
We were down in numbers tonight
but sill some overflow
Yes, it is possible to feel bad that David Dean buys cases French White Wines with dates on the bottles, but it was so darn good.
The Halpern's sadly ,left for home
ALL OF TUESDAYS PHOTOS
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 17th
( perfect weather, doc : iced tea......)
Its like with kids , the first one gets all the photos, as they keep coming the trips to Olen Mills get fewer and fewer. So, not as many pics to follow.
Scott and Yates and the great apiculture adventure of '11.
(epic poems will be written )
I stayed a close distance away
a brave chicken
My night to cook, and if we had IRON CHEF earlier in the week, mine was DOOR KNOCK DINNER, no trips to the store. There was an starter table that I forgot to get a photo of.
Fresh baked bread for the brushetta
I didn't even do all the work, Anna made the pork
apple slaw
Summer Squash
Baked Potato salad
( that was new to lots of people )
more room as our numbers declined
ALL OF WEDNESDAY PHOTOS
THURSDAY AUGUST 18th
( nice weather, white wine )
Dahn's Aunt Anna fixed dinner tonight, sort of catch as catch could from the TONS of food we had left over. Very yummy
we NEED to chase those chickens
I did make that Southern Living Frozen Lemon Aid pie that night,
HERE
is the link to the recipe if anyone wants it.
ALL PHOTOS FROM THURSDAY
FRIDAY AUGUST 19th
All good things must come to an end, and we broke camp.
Such a lovely time was had by all , and it is just such a special gathering .
Neil and I are most honored and feel so privileged to be included.
The last few walks around Pompanuck
Where Scott led us in Tai Chi
most mornings.
For those new to the k+b : " What's up with all the pictures of food ??"
Ummm... It's what we do... College football season is two weeks out and there are no red carpets right now. Read back a bit, you will get the gist of it. And dogs, lots of dogs ]
I will be adding any links I get to David G.'s photos as well.
SUNDAY AUGUST 14th
Ruthie Night
(no rain, beverage of choice: beer )
For reasons I can not remember, we could not get up there till early Sunday evening, missing an entire day of fun and food. A major loss to the group this year was the passing of David's sister/Myles and Michael's Mom, Ruth Gideon. So, the first night of everyone gathered was RUTHIE NIGHT. All her favorite foods, music, a slide show, stories, etc.
For reasons I can not remember, we could not get up there till early Sunday evening, missing an entire day of fun and food. A major loss to the group this year was the passing of David's sister/Myles and Michael's Mom, Ruth Gideon. So, the first night of everyone gathered was RUTHIE NIGHT. All her favorite foods, music, a slide show, stories, etc.
Getting the pups out as soon as we got there, was not at all sure how Miss Kiara was going to do.
Koda the water dog, LOVES Pompanuck
Grilling Chicken
Ruth's slide show
pulling it together
The Dean women, over ice with a splash
Jumbo Salad, Dahn's killer matzo ball soup, spanish rice, chicken. There was a fantastic huge fruit and cheese board in the house, that I did not get a photo of
LOVE this stuff
I think we were 31 on Sunday Night
overflow table
We also got to celebrate Myles b-day a bit early, a very nice way to end the celebration of his Mom.
ALL OF THE SUNDAY PHOTOS
MONDAY AUGUST 15th
( rain, so much rain, beverage of choice white wine and some sort of funky scotch )
still at 28/30 people..
The Cousins
They chose to do an IRON CHEF themed meal
with the secret ingredient being fresh Summer corn.
They worked super hard and it showed in the meal!!
The big silver bowls are the appetizers,
fresh popped corn, one with white truffle oil,
the other MOST wonderful bacon and maple added
A corn salad with fingerling potatoes,
one of the best things we ate all week!!
Dave and Neil
that was just off the charts good
strawberry and TDF Chocolate Peanut butter!
Ryan and the CPB ice cream
very happy he made so much
My feet
Stayed up very late, drinking and talking global economics with a London School of Economics grad. Kyle/ Wine/ Economics.... Yes, I need to send him a nice muffin basket.
ALL OF THE MONDAY PHOTOS
TUESDAY AUGUST 16th
( still raining, boc: more white wine and appletinis )
( always good to have NYC folk around! )
a lovely shrimp starter
mellon with pruchitto
Koda and my shoes
ALL OF TUESDAYS PHOTOS
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 17th
( perfect weather, doc : iced tea......)
Its like with kids , the first one gets all the photos, as they keep coming the trips to Olen Mills get fewer and fewer. So, not as many pics to follow.
(epic poems will be written )
apple slaw
Summer Squash
Baked Potato salad
( that was new to lots of people )
ALL OF WEDNESDAY PHOTOS
THURSDAY AUGUST 18th
( nice weather, white wine )
Dahn's Aunt Anna fixed dinner tonight, sort of catch as catch could from the TONS of food we had left over. Very yummy
HERE
is the link to the recipe if anyone wants it.
ALL PHOTOS FROM THURSDAY
FRIDAY AUGUST 19th
All good things must come to an end, and we broke camp.
Such a lovely time was had by all , and it is just such a special gathering .
Neil and I are most honored and feel so privileged to be included.
most mornings.
The sun sets over the New York State Thruway
Countless thanks to all the hard working folks who helped make this so much fun, and to Scott and Lisa for providing such a wonderful setting.
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