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June 28, 2007

Spoiled: The Dream Birthday Picnic

Picnic222 Today is my daughter Aretha's 17th birthday, and I offered to make a "dream picnic" for her. This is the menu she submitted to me:

Mommy's Breaded Chicken (obviously!) — don't be shy with the salt

Light fluffy GOOD bread to eat chicken with and clam chowder bowls

Cucumbers (lightly salted)

BIG array of fruit that won't wilt in picnic basket

Strawberries a must!

whip cream (for strawberries)
chocolate sauce (for strawberries)

macaroni and cheese (your homemade, the kind with breadcrumbs)

BABY vanilla yogurts from TJ's

Clam Chowder, NOT homemade, from Carniglia's at the wharf— you will be hurt if I don't like yours (I meant this sensitively, not as a threat)

pepper
salt

german chocolate birthday cake with a big 1 and a big 7, not seventeen candles!

pretty white & red checkered picnic blanket (do not want dog's blanket)

my rubber baby spoon

watermelon (seedless and not mealy)

butter
iceberg lettuce
mayo



Isn't that the most "sensitive" list you ever read?

So what is your dream picnic basket? And who, if anyone, in your family/tribe would be the one to spoil you and make the whole damn thing? ...Or is KFC your momma? 

Posted at 01:24 PM in Birthdays, Food and Drink, Picnic |

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