Wednesday Memes

 

Atlanta - The Wedding

A friend of the bride's baked this beautiful wedding cake.  The strawberry shortcake was delicious. 

The wedding was so beautiful.  The aisle of the ceremony room was lined on either side with real rose petals.  The young bride wore the most beautiful form fitting dress, she looked like a Disney princess.

real rose petals

Buffet Dinner

Antique '41 chevy

The couple drove away in this antique '41 chevy restored over several years by her 84 year old grandfather and her brother as a wedding gift!  

Husband M was happy to reconnect with his cousins after many years and we were happy to meet some of the younger relatives.  We were glad we made the trip to Atlanta.

Atlanta Trip - Beignets

 I have always wanted to try an authentic southern beignet.  We got a Doordash delivery to our hotel for lunch on the day of the wedding.  It is not like a doughnut, closer in taste to a funnel cake.  The sweetness comes from the mass of icing sugar it comes with.  It is not overwhelmingly sweet tasting. 

 We also ordered some savoury items.  Cajun Chicken and biscuit, Cajun fish and biscuit, and Cajun chicken po'boy.  I like the Fish and Biscuit but M and K like the po'boy.  They were all good.  

Atlanta Trip - Mary Mac's Tea Room

Sharing this trip with Gillena's Sunday Smiles.

Husband M, son K and I went to his young cousin's wedding in Atlanta in late May over 4 days.  We had a great time in Atlanta, mostly eating which is what we enjoy.   We got around by walking or taking ubers which are reasonably priced, the highways are large and busy, hotel parking is expensive.  

We stayed at Staybridge Suites in Midtown Atlanta.  It shares the building with the Crown Plaza hotel.  The shower backed up in the first suite we were given but after we complained we got a lovely suite with a working shower.  Albeit there are no safes in the hotel.  We were able to store our passports with the Crown Plaza in their safes near front desk.  

Son K loved the view of the city from our 20th floor suite.  Not to mention it overlooks the busy highway and there was never a dull moment.  Sirens, police car chases at all hours of the night, you name it.  Toronto is very calm in comparison to this large city.  Oh there is a full free breakfast every morning 6.30-930 am during the week, 730 - 1030 am on weekends.  Bacon, eggs, hash brown potatoes, oatmeal, fruit, waffles, coffee...

Atlanta is in the South so I wanted to try southern food.  I had watched many youtube videos about Mary Mac's Tea Room, so I had our order all planned out as pictured below.  The Pot Likker soup is complimentary for first time visitors. It comes with Cracklin' cornbread which has chopped pork rinds in it.  

Each entree comes with 2 sides, I outlined our choices below.  There was also a basket of rolls and cornbread.  We shared a peach pie dessert with vanilla ice cream.  Yes, we finished the dessert and  took leftovers back to our hotel.  It is a lot of delicious fried food, on the salty side.  The collard greens and cheese grits weren't our favourite, 

Pot Likker with Cracklin' Bread

 

Cracklin' Bread broken into the soup

Fried Green Tomatoes

Fried Chicken Tenders, Collard Greens with cracklin' cornbread, Macaroni and Cheese

Chicken and Dumplings, fried green tomatoes, cheese grits

Four-piece Fried Chicken, broccoli souffle, fried okra

Peach Pie with vanilla ice cream

A Grain of Sand and Some Treats

My friend S dropped by with these delicious desserts.  Her sister loves to bake.  She always lessens the sugar and uses whole wheat flour when she can.   

 I thought I would share this zoomed in photo of a single grain of sand.  I learned sand is a non renewable resource.  It is replenished over a long time but not quickly.  So we have to be careful how we use it.  The same goes for water.

Friday Art - Niece with Horse

 Welcome to Friday Art!  Sharing an ACEO (2 1/2" x 3 1/2") of my niece with her horse based on a photo taken by my sister-in-law.  

Linking to Nicole's Friday Face Off and to Gillena's Art For Fun Fridays.

Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date - Flying Creatures Theme and also Spaghetti with Cream Sauce

These are my flying creatures for Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date. They were done back in 2019.

 For the Dinner date, I made this yummy Spaghetti and spinach with sun dried tomato cream sauce.  

Here is the recipe.  I never used sun-dried tomatoes before but have always liked them in recipes.  I didn't use whole wheat pasta as specified by the recipe and I did add some fresh basil.