Summer is over and we all said goodbye to probably the shortest one of my life at Elizabeth's and Rob's annual Labor Day Cook-out.
It was a success, in spite of a few sprinkles here and there. Rob was the usual Grill Sargent filling us with his masterfully prepared brats and dogs. We feasted on baked beans, various salads, a yummy concoction called burgoo. Burgoo is a Kentucky thing....you Yankees might call it stew, but it's not....it's burgoo. The recipes vary, but it is basically, two to three kinds of meat, most often one of them will be mutton, veggies and tomato puree and seasonings. It all cooks slowly for a hours and hours until the meat is tender. After our fill of burgoo and brats we had a table-o-desserts to choose our sweet treat from!
But, food and feasting aside, we had fun just being together. Chris, Kelly and Emerson was there all weekend. On Saturday night we went out to dinner to the Brown Hotel and enjoyed Hot Browns....again, a Kentucky thing. Click here to see the history of the Hot Brown and for the recipe.
Steph and her friend joined us on Sunday for the cook-out. She couldn't come for the whole weekend because you know how those darn things called JOBS just get in the way of your weekend plans. It was good to see her if only for a short while.
Here are a few snapshots of our weekend of fun!!
Here is Rob helping Chris boil the brats in beer before grilling.
In this one, Elizabeth is helping Chris prepare what is now his nation-wide famous guacamole.
This is a shot of Chris getting some help from Elizabeth and Dano setting up chairs.Sorry, after the party started, I forgot to take pictures. But imagine if you will, about 35-40 people sitting at these tables enjoying food, fun and friends!
These have nothing to do with the cook-out, they are just too stinking cute not to share!!
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