It was a great Memorial Day weekend - weather cooperated, a great cookout was held and I invented "PANTS WINE.'' Pants wine is what happens when you have a HUGE potato salad in your left hand and a HOT broccoli/cheese casserole in your right hand and you NEED to carry the very large bottle of wine. Stick it in the back of your pants! From this day forward, we will be having Pants Wine at all affairs....
The weekend began when I hit the blueberry barrens to do a story about commercial bee hives - there are millions of them arriving in Maine this month to pollinate the blueberry bushes. It was fabulous and beautiful : 8,000 acres of low bushes blooming with white, pink and cream flowers. There were so many bees working that the bushes actually hummed!
I had just sat down at my kitchen table in Machias to write the bee story when my daughter called that smoke was pouring out of the building across the street from her deli! Off to the fire - I have not had a chance to see the Machias firefighters at work and I am impressed...the contained the fire to minimal damage and remained incredibly focused, even when one of their own men collapsed. The next day, I attended a forum for seven selectmen's candidates...it was a great opportunity to see what people felt the issues were.
The rest of the weekend was spent planting flowers, playing with the glorious Kiley (who is trying to say Queenie and it is coming out knee-knee-knee), eating, painting and spending time with my daughter and her husband. It was restful, relaxing and very much needed. Especially the Pants Wine.
P.S. I discovered an incredibly easy but delicious casserole:
1. cook up a couple of heads of broccoli (cauliflower and/or carrots would also work)
2. put them in a casserole dish
3. make a sauce by blending a softened package of cream cheese, about 1/2 cup of milk and a package of the ranch salad dressing mix (the powder stuff) - blend well. Add more milk as needed to make a smooth, thick sauce.
4. pour it over the broccoli and liberally sprinkle shredded cheddar on top
5. bake at 350 degrees for about 25 minutes
EVERYONE, including Kiley, raved about this at the cookout. If you try it, please let me know if you liked it.
Oh, I almost forgot - it is best served with Pants Wine.
5 comments:
omg it sounds YUMMY!!!!! I so need to try this!!!!! and of course some Pants wine too!!!!
Your article on the bees in the BDN was very cool! LOVE the pants wine idea, but I don't have enough room in the back of my pants to make it work...yikes!
Sounds like a lovely weekend. I would have love to been with you for that bee story. I will write down that recipe, it sounds REAL good!
Pants wine? Hmmm...
Do you recommend a specific kind of pants for this kind of wine?
I don't think my sweat pants would work too well, so do you recommend zippered pants or maybe stretch pants?
Too bad you didn't share a pic with us! ;-)
I have been known to whine while wearing pants but not to carry wine in my pants. Normally I would have just put down one of the casseroles. Opened the wine. Drank the whole bottle thrown the bottle away. Picked up the casserole. Stumbled toward the party, dropped the casserole bent over to retrieve it fall in the casserole and pass out. But hey that's just me.
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