Avocado Margaritas, Decoy Cakes, and SLIDERS TO GO
I hope all my hungry readers had an excellent and food-filled Labor day weekend! I was in Santa Fe at a pretty fantastic wedding, so mine was jam packed with interesting and decadent foods and drinks. And some incredibly cool touches, like sliders! In a doggy bag! After the wedding at like 11 PM. I was physically and gastronomically incapable of leaving that wedding hungry.
Dinner in general was extremely good, putting the lie to folks who say wedding food is only ok. That's not been my experience, but hey. Slices of steak in a wonderful BBQ sauce, grilled shrimps atop corn meal cakes wrapped in corn husk, and little puff pastries stuffed with veggies. No pictures, mea culpa.
Other things! There was a decoy cake.
The bride and groom (Melissa and Dave) cut into a cake that looked like a regular, tiered wedding cake. So, naturally, I assumed that at some point they would be serving slices of said cake. However, dessert (which was SUPERB -- little chocolate truffle bombs with raspberries, homemade ice cream sandwiches, and fruit compotes) never presented me with slices of cake, per se. I waited, more confused than expectant, and eventually asked one of the coordinator people. She told me that what I saw was a decoy.
This all raised a few questions, though, namely: Where are the bottom tiers? Were they even real cakes or props for the decoy? And if there's a decoy, shouldn't it be better hidden? Was I the only one totally fooled by the decoy? If so, is there something wrong with me?
Dessert really was fantastic, though. Here are a few pictures:
They were a little melted at this point, but SO GOOD. Chocolate ice cream stuffed inside peanut butter cookies. |
Fruit compotes -- much better than mine. |
I know! I mean, think about it -- you're tired and a little chilly (Santa Fe has some decent elevation, over 7000 feet), you've just had a great evening celebrating with super cool people. What could make the evening better?
I'll tell you.
SLIDERS.
Just sayin'.
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