Party Cooking
Jun. 17th, 2012 11:23 amSaturday I went over to my mother's to help with more cooking for my dad's birthday party today. Before the cooking we walked to the farmers' market -- there are massive amounts of lovely fruit right now. We got strawberries, bosen berries, nectarines, and peaches.
When we got back we started cooking. My mom made the shells for the eclairs, and I started working on Pineapple upside-down cake. My mom went out for a bit to go to her clay studio (normally she goes on Mondays, but this week she is working on Monday.) I kept cooking, got the pineapple upside-down cakes in the oven and started on my mother's belated birthday
cake. As I was doing this I went over to the sink to rinse something off. I noticed the sink was full of water so I tried running the garbage-disposal. When I did water started leaking all over the floor. I did not exactly stay calm. I sent my brother to get a towel and yelled for my
dad, when my dad hadn't appeared by the time the towel did, I asked my brother get him. My dad came down and poked under the sink. He announced that the trap was broken went off to the hardware store to get a new one, telling me not to use the sink while he was gone.
So I kept cooking. The pineapple upside-down cakes came out of the oven and I flipped then over. (They worked!) I keep working on my mother's cake and put the eclair shells in the oven. The sink was getting fuller and fuller of dirty dishes.
Then the dishwasher (which was running) dumped water into the sink and it went all over the floor. My dad wasn't back yet. I ran upstairs and got all the towels (well all the old towels we use to clean up the floor anyways). My dad got back as I was working on cleaning up. He helped me clean up and then fixed the the sink. Meanwhile I finished my mother's
cake.
By the end of all that I was quite tried. So after I cleaned up I went upstairs a took a nap. Then I poked the internet for a little bit. Then R and his mother came over and we all went out to diner.
Today I'm going over before my dad's party starts to help set up, and to make the eclairs. There is going to be way to much food.
When we got back we started cooking. My mom made the shells for the eclairs, and I started working on Pineapple upside-down cake. My mom went out for a bit to go to her clay studio (normally she goes on Mondays, but this week she is working on Monday.) I kept cooking, got the pineapple upside-down cakes in the oven and started on my mother's belated birthday
cake. As I was doing this I went over to the sink to rinse something off. I noticed the sink was full of water so I tried running the garbage-disposal. When I did water started leaking all over the floor. I did not exactly stay calm. I sent my brother to get a towel and yelled for my
dad, when my dad hadn't appeared by the time the towel did, I asked my brother get him. My dad came down and poked under the sink. He announced that the trap was broken went off to the hardware store to get a new one, telling me not to use the sink while he was gone.
So I kept cooking. The pineapple upside-down cakes came out of the oven and I flipped then over. (They worked!) I keep working on my mother's cake and put the eclair shells in the oven. The sink was getting fuller and fuller of dirty dishes.
Then the dishwasher (which was running) dumped water into the sink and it went all over the floor. My dad wasn't back yet. I ran upstairs and got all the towels (well all the old towels we use to clean up the floor anyways). My dad got back as I was working on cleaning up. He helped me clean up and then fixed the the sink. Meanwhile I finished my mother's
cake.
By the end of all that I was quite tried. So after I cleaned up I went upstairs a took a nap. Then I poked the internet for a little bit. Then R and his mother came over and we all went out to diner.
Today I'm going over before my dad's party starts to help set up, and to make the eclairs. There is going to be way to much food.
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