{"id":505,"date":"2008-02-06T01:30:34","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T09:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/test\/2008\/02\/06\/wedding-tasting\/"},"modified":"2022-03-03T23:03:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T06:03:40","slug":"wedding-tasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/06\/wedding-tasting\/","title":{"rendered":"wedding tasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I completely forgot that tomorrow is the start of Lent. Now, I may not be the best practicing Catholic but I always give something up during this time. (I guess it&#8217;s more of a habit than anything). Last year I gave up candy and chocolate. This year, I&#8217;ll probably stick with giving up some sort of food&#8230; possibly fried foods? Or maybe desserts\/pastries? Hmm. I&#8217;ll make up my mind when I wake up tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>So Rob and I spent the latter half of last week in LA because we had to attend a wedding tasting event that our caterer was throwing for their upcoming brides and grooms. OMG, YOU GUYS. The food is going to be so YUMMY. We tried about six salads &#8212; a fruit\/walnut salad, caesar, mixed green salad, etc. But my favorite was by far the strawberry spinach salad with poppyseed dressing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/temp\/spinachsalad.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/temp\/tn_spinachsalad.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>We also had 5 different entrees &#8212; chicken florentine (this was THE BEST!), caramelized chicken, prime rib, filet mignon, and shiitake encrusted halibut. Behold the yumminess of the filet and the halibut&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/temp\/filethalibut.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/temp\/tn_filethalibut.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>And of course, we had to try a few desserts &#8212; chocolate-covered strawberries, meringue cookies, and banana mandarin flambe. Sorry, no pictures. I was too busy eating!!!<\/p>\n<p>Here we are with full bellies at the end of the night&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/temp\/gnptasting.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/temp\/tn_gnptasting.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m definitely NOT going to be one of those brides that doesn&#8217;t have time to eat on the wedding day. I&#8217;ll be sitting down at the table chowing down along with my guests. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s past midnight and I just made myself hungry writing this entry. Heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I completely forgot that tomorrow is the start of Lent. Now, I may not be the best practicing Catholic but I always give something up during this time. (I guess it&#8217;s more of a habit than anything). Last year I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/06\/wedding-tasting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[98],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9402,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/9402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ever-lasting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}