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Our Labor Day Weekend Barbecue

September 6th, 2008 · No Comments


Grilling Kalbi Ribs , Roscoe Village, Chicago


Tommy loves to perform , Roscoe Village, Chicago


Mitch & Chris setting up ladder golf , Roscoe Village, Chicago


Uncle B.B., Ali, Caroline, Danny, Dallas, George, Jordan


Auntie Gail, Auntie Laura, Heather


Cory & Chris , Roscoe Village, Chicago


Roscoe Village, Chicago


Kathy & Jordan , Roscoe Village, Chicago


Mitch , Roscoe Village, Chicago


Too much party for Jeff , Roscoe Village, Chicago

On Sunday we hosted a barbecue. All of Dallas’ family came over. I made a lettuce salad (with green onions, mandarin oranges, toasted almonds, water chestnut, and crunch chow mien noodles) and a pasta salad (with tomatoes, corn, Parmesan and a vinaigrette). Dallas’ mom and aunt had been marinating kalbi ribs and Dallas grilled them. Dallas’ mom also made stir fried green beans and Dallas’ brother Jordan made some chili.

The weather cooperated with us and we spent most of our time outside on our deck and our shared common area, although there was a bout of Rock Band that went on for a while up in our apartment. Most people left in the late afternoon or evening. Those are the same people that missed Danny going home to walk his dog and coming back with the big huge bottle of sake he got for his birthday. We chilled it down and drank what I thought was a lot of sake, but there’s still a half bottle we’re keeping cold in the fridge for this weekend.

Also, I should note that Dallas and I are officially old. We had two coolers and a fridge and they were all filled with premium beers. No Bud, no Miller, no Coors. I take that back, there was one case of Miller, but it didn’t even make it into the cooler until the party was about 7 hours in. So, we are old. 5 years ago, hell, last year, at least one of the coolers would have been all crappy beer. Ancient, I tell you!

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Making Wontons

September 5th, 2007 · 2 Comments

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Kathy & Auntie Laura

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Caroline

Kathy & Laura Making Wontons
Kathy & Auntie Laura

Stuffing Wontons
Making Wontons

Uncooked Wontons
Uncooked Wontons

Danny Frying Wontons
Danny Frying Wontons

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Finished!

On Sunday all of Dallas’ family who were in town and who live in the suburbs came to our house for a (mostly) Korean dinner. Dallas’ parents, George & Kathy, & Auntie Laura came first. I was trying to finish up making some cookies when they arrived, but once Kathy & Auntie Laura got into the kitchen I pretty much had to surrender. I was fine with that, though. I knew the food they would be making was going to be fantastic and that they needed to do what they needed to do. Kathy was the ringleader and she gave everyone else jobs to do. In the end, Dallas’ whole immediate family, plus some Aunties and his sister’s friends and Danny all helped in making the meal. It was fun to have everyone involved.

Auntie Laura had taken George and Kathy to both a Korean market and Mitsuwa before coming to our house, so they brought all the ingredients they needed. For dinner we had oriental chicken salad, kalbi ribs, ahi sashimi, wontons, spinach namul, Hawaiian mac salad, and probably even more things that I’m not remembering right now.

I was the most excited about Dallas’ mom’s famous wontons. I’ve had a lot of the other foods we ate that day before, but not the wontons. Whenever Dallas visits his parents he always raves about them, but they don’t exactly travel well, so I’ve never had them. I special requested wontons and Dallas’ mom was nice enough to agree to make them at our house even though we had to make special arrangements to get the proper cooking gear here to do it. George and Danny ended up setting up an electric wok out on our porch so that our kitchen wouldn’t get full of oil. And extra thanks to Danny, who sat out there in the hot sun over a big wok of hot oil all day to cook the wontons. They were delicious.

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Doug & Naoko’s Labor Day Weekend BBQ

September 4th, 2006 · 3 Comments

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Joey, Doug, Jordan, Dallas, Cory, Matt :: Elgin, IL

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Smoked Salmon :: Elgin, IL

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Grillin’ George :: Elgin, IL

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Vincent & Dallas :: Elgin, IL

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Kalbi Rib Bones :: Elgin, IL

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Dallas :: Elgin, IL

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Shoes in the Entryway :: Elgin, IL

On Sunday we went out to Elgin for Doug & Naoko’s annual BBQ. This year they had grilled mahi mahi fish tacos and kalbi ribs. Yum! Dallas brother, Jordan, and his dad, George, are both in town visiting from Seattle and North Carolina. Jordan actually came here right from a 2-week jaunt in Alaska for work, so he had lots of smoked Copper River salmon. He said that it was just caught like last week and that a son of his coworker had done it all himself. I wasn’t sure if I’d like it, but it was really good. Much sweeter than I’d expected.

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Happy Hawaiian Birthday

December 11th, 2005 · 7 Comments

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Kalbi Ribs
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Katsu Chicken
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Mac Salad
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White Rice, Katsu Chicken

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Dallas said the High Life in the can was an integral part of his meal.

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Rachelle’s Dinner

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Birthday brownies with make-do candle.

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Left Right Center Dice

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Left Right Center Dice

On Friday we celebrated Dallas’ birthday by inviting a bunch of people over and getting Hawaiian food catered in from Aloha Grill. We had kalbi ribs, katsu chicken, mac salad and rice. Billy, these photos are just for you!

After dinner we had brownies that Kristin made. The candle there isn’t some sort of weird Hawaiian thing, it’s the closest to birthday candles we could find in the house. Can’t have a cake without at least one candle for a birthday wish.

To work off all the food we played an epic game of Left, Right, Center. 12 people x 3 dollars/round x 3 rounds. No one could believe it pushed into a third round. Jen took home over $100 by rolling that dot at the end. Texas Hold’em was next. I went to bed at 2:30 and there were still 3 people in the game with pretty evenly distributed chips. I think it went on til like 4am, when Darren ended it by taking down Trent.

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