All this talk of food. Monty and I have a lot of teaching to do. Greens are best cooked in pork of any kind. I like thoe Boston butt roas to cook greens in. Or the juice left over from a cooked ham. And some turnips and hot water cornbread. Some people add a touch of sugar to the greens. Some do not.
The greens taste best if mixed: turnips, collards, etc.
But I love to graze at the table.
Monty what is this about the sherbet in the punch? White grape juice with or without other juices is supposed to be frozen in one of these salad tube pans and then aloud to float in the punch bowl.
Or
Freeze the fruit juices and then pour white grape juice and ginger ale and spirits to taste to the frozen misture and stir.
Also Monty you left out the part where the bride's mother asks the organist who is casually sipping on the punch and munching the goodies, "When are youy going to START playing the piano for the reception. We did ASK you to play for the reception as well, DIDN'T we?" Of course the answer is NO. But out in the car is a stash of music just for these situations like this. It is retrieved and played with gusto. Hopefully remembering the music which hasn't been played since the last wedding reception.
Then come the requests for songs from somewhere that are not in the stash and the organist has never heard of or WISHES he had never heard of.
Been there, done that, had punch all over the T shirt at the news I was playing right then for the reception in progress.
Earlier Monty was in a dither about what to play for the processional as Here Comes the Bride just didn't seem quite right.
How about "Can't Help Loving that Man of Mine" from "Old Man River".
Lex keeps wanting the song "Bigger is Better." I told him no Lex, not at a dignified wedding.