Wedding Bells Part 2

Sarah and Ethan drove in from Brooklyn with their his n her laptops. Ethan stayed up until 3 to finish a huge blogpost he'd been working on for 6 months, a centennial tribute to jazz great Lester Young (dead at 50). He received a record no. of hits - 5,000.

What a great time we had together. Sarah prepared a huge post-wedding brunch for about 40 people at my mom's house down the road in Huntingdon Valley. She drew up a list of ingredients and then asked me where to shop for them.

For the German sausage dish, she asked if there was a good meat market we could go to.

Yes! I said. Rieker's in the Fox Chase section of Philadelphia, formerly a German neighborhood. The 3 of us drove over. I let Ethan drive my new car since he was unhappy w/his rented Toyota Corolla, saying he didn't like the way it braked. My car handled itself very well, he thought. Basically you want your car to be an extension of yourself, even as to the way it looks, if we could transform ourselves into cars. As you know, my car has a fin, referred to as a spoiler.

You will note, I said to Sarah and Ethan, when we get out of the car at Rieker's you will be able to smell the meat market in the driveway, a smell which will explode when you enter the shop & will make you wanna buy basically everything.

They that work there have German accents. This was not a time to make jokes about the Nazi oppressors or guards at Auschwitz. We did that in the car. This was a time to gaze lovingly on all the meat and sausages and imports from the Fatherland. Sarah asked questions and the woman told her exactly how to cook the 3 types of sausages she would buy and to add garlic and paprika to them.

Surprisingly, the hit of the brunch was Granola served with homemade yogurt. Sarah made Granola that was as potent as a fruitcake, absolutely exploding with flavor. She baked it in my oven and used real maple syrup as a light sweetener. I'd made the yogurt the nite before using organic whole milk and a small amount of vanilla flavoring. The combination was unparalleled!