New Zealand Wedding

Highs and Lows

Em and Al

They’re a couple, a bride and a groom united
two of them made into one.
They achieved this by doing everything twice!
Two father figures, one a brother, one an uncle.
Two aisles to walk down in a beautiful long dress.
Two services, one in London, one in New Zealand.
Two ministers, one a woman, one a man.
Two service sheets with vows uttered twice.

Two decorated tiered cakes, one made by church friends,
one bought down the road.
Two afternoon teas, one at their London church and one at
the bride’s old College.
Two families, one in England, one in N.Z. with
overlap of travelling companions and friends.
A twice worn Las Vegas bought dress and a suit with
a bowler hat and a polished cane.
Twice dedicated rings, twice blessed like me -
mother of the bride.
Two relaxed smiles, nothing between 12 thousand miles!



Well, there's nothing like a family wedding for a high, but
when they've all gone home you feel like a flat pancake for a while!

Here's a Korean recipe for a pancake, called Pa Jon.

Sift one cup of flour and a pinch of salt
with 1 teaspoon of cumin and a quarter teaspoon
(I added this cos my fellow blogger says I'm a
sprinkler)
of cayenne pepper.
Beat an egg in a cup and fill up with water
Add another half cup of water
I whipped this up in my blender but a bowl
will do.
Carefully mix in half a finely chopped onion and half of a
red/green pepper thinly sliced.

Heat a large frying pan with oil and cook the pancakes
on both sides until golden. Makes 3 to 4 pancakes depending
how thick you like them. Evidently in Korea they cut them
like we would a pizza. Enjoy!

The Old Amber Jug.

In the late 60's my Mum worked at the Dairy Laboratory in Upper Hutt, Wellington , with a young scientist who claimed my Mum as his own!!. They had a great friendship, him being the son my parents never had. Eventually he married ,and his new bride inherited all her Mums china that had been stored in a barn ,in wooden fruit boxes with hay and years of grime. Her Mum and Dad had died in a car accident when she was small,and had been brought up by her farming Uncle and Aunt.
The young man and his wife divorced some years later and because my Mum had been good to them,she was given two of the boxes of china, in which was a large amber jug made of depression glass, . The loveliest thing I had seen . This was the start of my many years of collecting amber and green glass.
Fast forward 40 years!!!. I adopted a 2yr old tabby cat and while exploring her new home decided for no reason that I can explain, thought she would like to sit up on the wall shelves with my glass. Well we know that didn't work, and down fell the cat, glass and shelves in that order. The amber jug and many other pieces in
pieces.
I have been browsing a popular buying site and to my amazement there was an Amber Jug, just like the one I had lost, so on ent my bid and I crossed my fingers. I watched each day and at the end of 5 long days, I WON. So the story
has gone full circle.I now have a start to a new collection.
Here is a recipe to go in the jug I used to make for my boys for pudding with peaches.
CHOCOLATE CUSTARD
1 pint{500mls} milk 3 heaped tablespoons cocoa
3 heaped tablespoons sugar 3 heaped tablespoons cornflour.
METHOD.
PLace milk in saucepan, and bring to boil. MIx together the cocoa, sugar and cornflour with a little milk. Add to milk and stir, and add 2 drops vanilla essence. Delicious hot or cold with stewed fruit or puddings of any description.