Our Riding Club season has begun…………..

Through the Jell-O-consistency humidity and the dripping, suffocating heat and the hurricane threats (at best)…………..we ride on…

We’re idiots…

…………equine endorphine-swilling idiots…………

 

…………but we ride on…………

…………and it’s great.

 

With the advent of our Hunt season, our family’s scheduled “Tea” is just around the corner.

And by “just around the corner”, by that I mean it’s five days away…

 

I just did a hit on our neighborhood liquor store (if you remember from last year’s “Tea” preparations……………….the “Tea” has nothing to do with actual tea……………..iced or hot…

 

***************Last Year’s Hunt Club Tea***************

This year’s menu will consist of two deep-fried turkeys (fried in peanut oil).  Then we’ll have pulled-pork from a twelve pound pork roast that I will be slow-cooking.

 

I’m thinking for hors d’oeuvres that I will make some queso blanco (fresh goat milk cheese) with crackers along with that Hawaiian bread and spinach dip concoction…………the one where you tear out the middle of the bread loaf and fill it with a spinach dip and then leave the torn up pieces of the bread around the sides for dipping…

 

 

Plus, I have to do the much-requested twenty-pounds of mashed potatoes.

 

This year I’m ready though.

 

 

 

When I recently went up to Ocala to pick up the shoeing stock, my friend Guy, and I stopped at a wholesale commercial restaurant supply store and I got a stainless steel monster-masher…………complete with a 24″ long handle.

Now I won’t have scorched knuckles like before when I was elbow-deep in boiled potatoes, trying to mash them with a regular-sized potato masher.

 

I’ll concoct the same high-caloric side dish that I always do.

I’ll use loads of heavy whipping cream, way too much butter, big glops of sour cream, maybe an egg or two (for color)-(they cook in the super hot potatoes while I mash away).

 

Like last year…………anyone who eats my mashed potatoes might as well just spackle them directly onto their hips.

 

 

There’ll be other vegetables……………..but really,  who wants to talk about vegetables, huh?

…………well, except for the broccoli corn bread…………baked in various cast-iron cookware (again, with way too much butter)…………that’s worth talking about…………hang onto the spackle knife for that side dish too…

 

Dessert———easy-peezy———oatmeal cookies, peanut butter cookies, Snickerdoodles, brownies, Rice Krispie Treats, and this kind-of-dessert-bark made with Saltine crackers/sweet butter/brown sugar/& chocolate chips…………

 

 

 

 

…………and Bob’s your Uncle…………

 

(Uncle Bob has had a lot of my mashed potatoes over the years…

…………sssshhhhhh…………Uncle Bob has a big butt, too…

 

 

…………no skinny jeans for Uncle Bob.)