Pretty picture
Remember how I promised Denny would have a nicer picture of the cupcakes?
Here it is. Be sure to click on the image to see the larger version; the detail he got is really beautiful. He’s so good.
I would also like to reiterate my assertation that planning ahead rules. Over the last 5 days, I’ve made approximately 1 billion empanadas, .5 billion phyllo ice cream cups, and .5 billion bases for teacakes. If I had tried to do all of that Saturday afternoon, I would have been a tired, grumpy mess by the time the guests arrived.
In sadder news, tomorrow is my friend/coworker Kaspar’s last day at work. Kaspar is the one whose wedding in Norway we’re going to this summer. Norway is his home country, and his fiancée Sabine studies Norwegian film. He found a new job in Oslo, so after the wedding, they just won’t be coming back. I’m happy for them but sad for me.
Fun fact: I was chatting with Sabine, and she mentioned that it was at our wedding that she and Kaspar decided to get married (they’re a long-time couple who had been sort of ambivalent about marriage, but I guess we pushed them over the edge). Denny noted that in a way, we engineered our own trip to Norway, since we’d have no reason to go were it not for their wedding.
Weddings are dangerous places for unmarried couples.
Is a wedding what sealed the deal for you and Leah?
Oh, no. It was love at first sight when we both showed up at the same party and I brought “my famous” dill pickle appetizer; the rest is/was history.
Is that a tiger lilly in the picture? If so, it looks darker than the ones we have in our garden. I also like the mint(?) accent on the cupcake. Good job!
I’m not exactly sure what kind of lily it is; that plant came with the house. I think it might be a red Asian lily. And yep, that’s mint. Hy-Vee was clearing out its plant section, and it turned out to be cheaper to buy a pretty sizable mint plant than to buy fresh mint in the produce section, so that’s what I did. I figured I could just pick all the leaves off the plant and I’d still come out ahead. As it turned out, I didn’t need all the leaves, so I planted it (inside in a pot; Denny was worried it would take over the yard if left to its own devices).
Wow, this is a long comment. I should have just made a new post.