All I can say is, I'm glad I didn't have lunch first.
Sunday evening V and I went to a wedding; it was the same people we were supposed to visit before I practically severed my arm in Fort Lauderdale. The events were happening in southern Connecticut, a three-hour drive or so, and my late breakfast, coupled with our late departure, meant that lunch would be a miss, and eating would have to wait until after the wedding itself.
To say that there was enough food to make up for it was an understatement.
The waiters started circulating with hors d'oeuvres before the ceremony - around 5pm - so I snagged a few. Afterwards, I assumed it would be some more light eating and then straight to dinner...but no. One side of the reception room had a full-on sushi bar on one side - complete with a sushi chef preparing rolls right in front of us! - and the other side had Peking duck rolls, which I managed to get myself talked into two of, plus some shrimp cocktail. Those duck things weren't small, either - about the size of an egg roll.
Then dinner...rolls, salad, a salmon fillet with carrots, wild rice and asparagus, followed by sorbet with raspberries, an assortment of butter cookies and bonbons, and THEN the cake. That skipped lunch? Completely forgotten. I even lost a button on the vest for my tuxedo, though it wasn't from my suddenly distended gut. Our original intention was to leave around 8:30, but when we hadn't even gotten the main course until 9, we realized it was a late night. By the time the cake came around, we'd been eating for practically 5 hours straight. I'm surprised I was able to even fit mah belleh behind the steering wheel for the drive home...or that I didn't pass out on 495 at 1:45 in the morning from food coma.
But we made it back alive at the ungodly hour of 2am. I was so full the next morning I couldn't even devour the typical portion of banana-chocolate chip bread I'd whipped up over the weekend...now THAT's full.
Congratulations to Aline and Mark on a beautiful wedding - here's to many happy years together!
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