Sunday, August 2, 2009

Throwing Down an Oven Mitt

R and I have lovely friends. There's a core group of eight couples and we like to get together at certain times through the year. Last night we got together for a BBQ hosted by Mr and Mrs C at their lovely home with a swimming pool and room for a pony. Lately, it seems as though there must not be a gathering without the men partaking in some sort of competition. Last night the event was Who Can BBQ the Best Steak. There were numbers drawn, a couple of trust-worthy people secreted in the kitchen to cut up samples, sheets handed out with a grading system and a teen with excellent math skills to calculate the submitted points. Toward the end, I felt a little like Geraldine Granger from The Vicar of Dibley trying to eat just one more brussel sprout at Christmas Lunch. All of the steaks were delicious but sadly, I have to report that R's steak did not achieve a top three position. Not to worry though, in September we'll be doing it all over again at our Ribfest. R made a trophy for that one and he's quite determined that it will grace our mantle this year. He took a sterling silver piggy bank and mounted it on an old soccer trophy that he bought at a charity shop, the player on top was done away with. The trophy is affectionately referred to as 'The Porker'. Heaven help me.

5 comments:

  1. Ho funny! That is a lot of steak to eat, but since everyone was trying to cook the best, I bet they were all pretty tasty! It sounds like fun (maybe you can have a competition with sponge cakes--yum!).

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  2. You weren't crawling from steak to steak were you? What the vicar needed was a faithful friend like Deacon to assist in the partaking:) Better luck to R at the Ribfest. I hope he can bring The Porker home.

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  3. Danielle, A sponge cake competition - now that would be more like it!

    Book Psmith, LOL! Deacon under the table would be a great help for those moments when it simply wouldn't be gracious to refuse.

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  4. Brilliant! And such a guy thing! K x

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  5. Oh, my...this is just too funny!!

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