It takes a village to house the HUGE family get-together that is happening next week in Ohio.
For the second annual, immediate-family-only, Bratt family reunion, there will be 30 people descending on a boarding school for tennis tournaments, winery tours, beach-going, bantering, arguing, and eating.
Each adult-ish like person (or couple) is in charge of a meal or two, so I've spent the last week trying to imagine what to feed 30 people for one lunch and one dinner. One lunch. One dinner. 30 PEOPLE, people. That's a crowd.
I've come up with a few ideas that I'm pretty sure will be
A) delicious
B) pleasing to 99% of the gang [because one person will only be 70% pleased, or two people will like 85% of it or something]
C) relatively inexpensive [sorry, in-laws, no surf and turf]
D) satisfying [this is a very active bunch; no need having a load of choleric people getting hungry an hour after lunch].
I'm pretty sure they planned this gathering just so I would amazing content on mah blog for an entire week, because guess who's going to document the whole thing?
Get ready for a whole lot of pictures of a whole lot of food (what is everyone else making?), folks (meet the parents, and cousins, and brothers and sisters...), and fun (did I mention The G and I are competing at the end of the week?).
Until then, get your Summer List O' Fun ready. Tomorrow, I'll show you mine if you show me yours!