My Baby-B’s 3rd B-day Party

My adorable nephew just turned 3 – how time flies, no? I mean his older brother started pre-school in September… eesh! – and of course, in true FeistyFamily Fashion, FeistySis threw a party for the kids… and a feast for the fat asses, I mean, parents & family… 

Appetizers first: all displayed on the lovely three-tier serving platter/stand that I got FeistySis for Christmas.  It’s really great to see her using it because that means she actually likes it.  The trays are shatter resistant, dishwasher safe, and it came with a divided platter and two regular, a set in clear-red, and clear.  Very great gift… and it wasn’t expensive 🙂

Of course, our ever-present deviled eggs, the Feisty Family tradition; then, something new.  My family has only recently started branching into eating more cheese – my sister’s been eating cheese for a while, but apparently, on their latest trip to Maine, FeistyMom and Snorlax picked up some sort of cheese that they loved so I think they’ve been experimenting with eating more cheese on its own.  In any case, here’s some cured dried sausage whose name I didn’t catch, and then Colby Jack and Pepper Jack… the super even slices you see are not store bought, I am anal-retentive and this comes out clearly in my cutting style… ha!

I actually arrived a little too late this year to be delegated to slicing crudite duty… phew!  Cucumbers, grape tomatoes, carrot sticks…

baked Lay’s with ridges… FeistySis actually had bought tzatziki (in the first pic, the small bowl to the left of the tower), but I decided to make fried onion dip, as I even said in that post with the recipe (it’s the fourth recipe down).  First, this was delicious.  Second, that bowl of tzatziki went completely untouched as people devoured the fried onion dip… (that’s a double recipe in the box).  NOM.  Success 🙂

My plate of appetizers – this is actually my second plate, so the small schmear of fried onion dip on the left was actually abotu 4x as big originally 🙂  And as usual, everything was delicious. 

But onto the main event – the main table was laden with tons of goodies. 

I mean TONS of goodies, all Korean banchan… 

Marinated mung bean sprouts, ever so slightly spicy

Shredded daikon and carrots, pickled. 

Burdock root (back left), slightly spicy; seaweed (green); and giant black beans that are really tasty

Pickled cucumber, slightly spicy

Two types of fish

Grilled fishies

Something else spicy

Gadduki (I spelled this wrong..?) – spicy fermented radish or turnip?

More spicy pickled things

Spicy squid pieces

Spicy cuttlefish

Summer kimchi (not spicy)

Regular kimchi (spicy)

Aged tofu

“Thousand year old” egg – I don’t actually eat this, sadly… sort of sad, anyway

My first plate!  There’s a small mound of white rice in the center.  Yum! 

My brother-in-law caught me eating the above plate and was like “Dude, I just brought in a huge platter of grilled meat, go get some!”

Don’t have to tell me twice – I snagged a piece of kalbi and a chicken wing, but since I’d loaded up on banchan, I couldn’t really eat that much more. 

Before you know it, dessert time!  Don’t worry about what my nephew’s name is.  I’d show you the most adorable pictures I have of him – I fed him this time, and distracted him with an iPhone streaming videos of Toy Story bloopers so I could put food in his mouth… but FeistySis has stated explicitly she does not want pictures of her children on the internet, and that is her right.  I respect that.  So you’ll have to settle with seeing his birthday cake from the wrong angle. 

The kids also decorated their own cupcakes this year. 

Apple crisp, and fresh canteloupe covering all the fresh strawberries in the bottom of the bowl. 

The other cupcakes the kids decorated. 

My plate – green tea cake (the one in the first dessert picture) and some canteloupe.  The green tea cake was super light and moist, I love it.  Yum!  With a simple whipped cream holding the layers together. 

As a poor college student, I was encouraged to take some food home (a LOT), so I did.  I took a ton of leftovers of the banchan, and just ate that – there’s rice under the egg – and fried an egg to top it all.  So good.  So yum.  For the first time in recent memory, I actually finished all the leftovers before they turned… nom. 

That’s how the Feisty Fam rolls!!!  Props to FeistySis for throwing yet another slammin’ party… and to the brother-in-law for grilling up some mean kalbi and whatnot.  Also, thanks to all the people who had to bail at the last minute, meaning more leftovers for me to take home 😉