Late Sunday Lunch

My favorite day to have people over is Saturday.  Saturday lunch, to be more specific.  That way I have all morning to prepare it!

We have been trying to have Brian & Jill (and, of course, their adorable children) over for almost a year now, but either Brian or Mike were always out of town or we wanted to have people over that were about to move away or other reasons…Well, I invited them for Saturday (yesterday), but later they needed to switch to Sunday.  “Okay, I said, but our church gets out way later than yours so we’ll need to eat around 2 at the earliest.”  Cool, no problem.

Anywho…I prepared most of the food last night so it’d be ready to throw in the oven.  I soaked beans all day, boiled them all evening (literally), cut and chopped a dozen different things, etc.

Here’s everything I served:

·         Black bean dip with chips

·         Mom’s Chicken Enchiladas, extremely modified by me

·         Yogurt fruit salad (with green grapes that I haven’t seen here EVER until this week!! So yummy!!)

·         Green salad with a couple dressing options *

* This was seriously the second time I ever bought lettuce here.  You have to wash vegetables so well here and I’m just paranoid about lettuce.

So, to continue my story above…let me just explain that Jill is a phenomenal cook.  She’s a stay-at-home mom and has really perfected cooking.  Every time I have anything she made, it’s fantastic.  Needless to say, that made me a little nervous.  I’m new at this!  She’s also one of the nicest people I’ve ever met and I knew I shouldn’t worry, but I did anyway.  Of course, in all my worries I forgot that I was supposed to call them when we got out of church so they’d know when to come over.  All this time, I thought we just decided on 2:00.  Was definitely MY fault…but the delay helped me calm down and get things done as I was running behind.

Alas, everything ended up perfectly, they complimented it many times, and everyone was stuffed.  We didn’t even eat leftover birthday cake/ice cream, because no one had room!

To top it all off, I was internally beaming at Jill’s comment when she first arrived…She’s been excited to finally taste the cooking she’s heard so much about from different people.  Wow!  That made my day.