Last night we had our friends Katie and Kurt over for dinner and wedding work! They are getting married in less than 2 weeks! Last night Katie and I worked on making their favors – chocolate covered pretzels with white chocolate drizzle. See the details below.

Before we started the process and after we went to 2 Krogers to get the pretzels and chocolate, we need to fuel up with some healthy cookout food! We had:

• boneless skinless pork chops(marinated in Carribean Jerk) on the grill – I had baked tofu
• corn on the cob
• baked potatoes and sweet potatoes
• Peanutty Cabbage-Apple Slaw
• guac with chips for snacking before dinner

Here is the Slaw:

Peanutty Cabbage-Apple Slaw

• 1 small head of green cabbage
• 2 small apples
• 1 jicama (optional – I added this to make more slaw for my lunch)
• a sprinkle of peanuts

Dressing:

• 1 tbsp. light miracle whip
• 1 tsp. sesame oil
• 3 tbsp. rice vinegar
• salt and pepper
• sesame seeds

Put the cabbage, apple and jicama into the food processor to shred. Mix with dressing and serve!

Pretzel Time

After dinner was cleaned up we set to work on the 20 bags of pretzels, 15 lbs. of chocolate and 600 yds. of ribbon. The goal was to make wedding favors that consisted of 2 pretzels each for 260 guests =over 500 pretzels! We started around 8:30, after a relaxing dinner on the deck (we probably should have started working a little faster but we were enjoying the summer weather!). While we worked the boys watched the CAVS game and cut ribbon.

Pretzel Preview:

Working hard, and accurately – you can see them measuring each one!

The pretzel party concluded around 10:30, just in time to watch the end of the CAVS game. Bummer.

The plan for tonight is to bag and bow the pretzels!

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