So this Saturday was my nephew’s wedding.
(This next LONG bit is what happened leading right up to the wedding….skip it if painful medical issues make you queasy.)
Plans were complicated by the fact that 93-year old Mom fell and broke her hip on June 5th, requiring emergency partial hip replacement on June 7th. Then the new metal ball dislocated on June 15th while she was in rehab. So back to ER where two doctors got on opposing ends and yank. Ya…fortunately, they knocked Mom out for that part. She finished rehab, came home and on July 4th, the hip dislocated AGAIN. Back to ER, knock Mom out, yank hip bone back into position and send her home. (Are you getting queasy yet?)
Ortho doc said 2 dislocations within a month was rare and labrum (muscle tissue holding metal ball in position) probably tore at first dislocation. So now they would do a full hip replacement….metal ball and metal socket scheduled for August 26. But on July 21, she fell and dislocated it a third time. Back to ER where they yanked, but failed to pop it back into position. Which was good because now they would have to do the full surgery immediately instead of waiting until the end of August. Which was bad because of Mom’s age they couldn’t give her the good drugs to knock her out or kill the pain. Those dose levels at her age could stop her heart and kill her. So she had to lay there 24 hours with a dislocated hip. On July 22 they did the full replacement surgery, it went well and she left hospital after a few days to go back to rehab. Two days before the wedding, her leg developed a clot from the surgery and ballooned up. They started a medicine that broke that down and on Saturday mom was well enough to get a temporary “get out of jail for your grandson’s wedding” ticket. I had to have her back at the rehab by 10 PM….sort of like Cinderella but with blood clot medication instead of crystal slippers.
On to the wedding. The bride is Italian and wanted to have a Pittsburgh cookie table. So the Cookie Crew consisted of her Italian grandparents, aunts, & uncles who arrived in town loaded down with cookies they had made in New Jersey. On the groom side, it was my sister’s best friend (Italian), my sister’s MIL (also Italian) and me (covering the rest of Eastern Europe).
In total, I made 70 dozen cookies. They barely made a dent in the overall THIRTY-TWO FOOT LONG COOKIE display. Book-ended by tiers of cupcakes rather than wedding cake.
I’ve got a video of that and will try to find some way of breaking that down into photos.
These are the cookies I made:
Apricot rugelach (made with Olson apricots)
Almond Cherry bars (Tish Boyle recipe)
Nut horns (made with Hungarian nutroll dough and CathyZ potica filling)
Almond Spice Sables
Almond Ginger Honey Biscotti
Knock You Naked brownies
Cake ball (chocolate, lemon (white icing) and strawberry (pink blob on top)
Chocolate chip cookies
Key Lime Tarts (purchased the Pâte Sucrée shell) Richard’s Key Lime Dip and Lemon curd
Chocolate Raspberry Tarts (ditto with the shells) my chocolate sauce ramped up with raspberry and raspberry coulis.
(This next LONG bit is what happened leading right up to the wedding….skip it if painful medical issues make you queasy.)
Plans were complicated by the fact that 93-year old Mom fell and broke her hip on June 5th, requiring emergency partial hip replacement on June 7th. Then the new metal ball dislocated on June 15th while she was in rehab. So back to ER where two doctors got on opposing ends and yank. Ya…fortunately, they knocked Mom out for that part. She finished rehab, came home and on July 4th, the hip dislocated AGAIN. Back to ER, knock Mom out, yank hip bone back into position and send her home. (Are you getting queasy yet?)
Ortho doc said 2 dislocations within a month was rare and labrum (muscle tissue holding metal ball in position) probably tore at first dislocation. So now they would do a full hip replacement….metal ball and metal socket scheduled for August 26. But on July 21, she fell and dislocated it a third time. Back to ER where they yanked, but failed to pop it back into position. Which was good because now they would have to do the full surgery immediately instead of waiting until the end of August. Which was bad because of Mom’s age they couldn’t give her the good drugs to knock her out or kill the pain. Those dose levels at her age could stop her heart and kill her. So she had to lay there 24 hours with a dislocated hip. On July 22 they did the full replacement surgery, it went well and she left hospital after a few days to go back to rehab. Two days before the wedding, her leg developed a clot from the surgery and ballooned up. They started a medicine that broke that down and on Saturday mom was well enough to get a temporary “get out of jail for your grandson’s wedding” ticket. I had to have her back at the rehab by 10 PM….sort of like Cinderella but with blood clot medication instead of crystal slippers.
On to the wedding. The bride is Italian and wanted to have a Pittsburgh cookie table. So the Cookie Crew consisted of her Italian grandparents, aunts, & uncles who arrived in town loaded down with cookies they had made in New Jersey. On the groom side, it was my sister’s best friend (Italian), my sister’s MIL (also Italian) and me (covering the rest of Eastern Europe).
In total, I made 70 dozen cookies. They barely made a dent in the overall THIRTY-TWO FOOT LONG COOKIE display. Book-ended by tiers of cupcakes rather than wedding cake.
I’ve got a video of that and will try to find some way of breaking that down into photos.
These are the cookies I made:
Apricot rugelach (made with Olson apricots)
Almond Cherry bars (Tish Boyle recipe)
Nut horns (made with Hungarian nutroll dough and CathyZ potica filling)
Almond Spice Sables
Almond Ginger Honey Biscotti
Knock You Naked brownies
Cake ball (chocolate, lemon (white icing) and strawberry (pink blob on top)
Chocolate chip cookies
Key Lime Tarts (purchased the Pâte Sucrée shell) Richard’s Key Lime Dip and Lemon curd
Chocolate Raspberry Tarts (ditto with the shells) my chocolate sauce ramped up with raspberry and raspberry coulis.
Attachments
Last edited:
