A hen (bachelorette) night

 

Isn't "hen" much less of a mouthful? I can't really say the word bachelorette without feeling self-conscious, or having images I would rather not think about enter my head. Thankfully this event didn't have any of the trappings that usually come to mind associated with it. In London I think of hordes of drunk girls sitting on the edge of the pavement in the rain, perhaps wearing a phallic hat, or maybe a tiara. Not to say that this is a bad thing necessarily, it's just not exactly what we were going for on Michele's Hen Night. 

I sternly said I wasn't going to have anything to do with the organization of the event, and then promptly took over. In fact, I took over in such an exaggerated manner that I probably went too far. Well for someone with a day job, anyway.

I did a color scheme. In fact, I stuck so strictly to it, that I think I may have scared my friends. But no matter! It looked really pretty. I think...

All of the food was in pink and brown. It could be any kind of food, it just had to be pink and brown. The menu went as follows:

Cocktail:

Blood & Sand: Luxardo cherry liqueur, whiskey, orange & vermouth

Wine: 

Edmund St. John Bone-Jolly Rosé

Savory:

Oversized pink olives
Salmon/tuna sushi rolls
Cornmeal blinis with crème fraîche and smoked salmon
Beet, parsley and goat cheese on cranberry walnut bread
Pink deviled eggs (egg yolk puréed wth beet)

Red bliss potato salad

Radicchio bundles with red cabbage and seared shrimp

Red oak and radicchio salad

Sweet:

Rose water lollipops
Chocolate Guinness cake with pomegranate buttercream

Chocolate roll-out cookies

S'mores: pink cherry liqueur marshmallows with chocolate Graham crackers and dark chocolate squares 

Probably the highlight of the evening (food-wise only, of course, the highlight was probably the custom-made game by Jenn) was seeing grown ladies toasting homemade marshmallows on little fires at a dining table in SoHo. Oh, and making lollipops was a first for me too. Cavity-pulling sugary goodness! They also served as extra-sweet favors for the party and Michael helped me put customized labels on every single one of them.

Congrats to Dan and Michele! And sorry all of ya'll for not blogging in so, so long. 

Comments

[kertu]

hey, did you make those lollipops yourself?

[kertu]

hey, did you make those lollipops yourself?

[Natasha]

I did indeed!

[Ash]

Just came across you're blog!
Love those suckers!!! too cute!

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