Leftover Queen & More Wedding Prep Pics

Breakfast:

While biking home, I was dying! I think that if I intend to bike 5 days a week in the AM, I need something a little more substantial than cereal. That or I might have to pack a snack to eat during class. Puffins original with plain soy milk and a cup of black coffee.

Lunch:

Once I arrived at the side door, all I could think about was a grilled sandwich with veggies and baked tofu. Going up the stairs, my mouth watered and my legs felt as if they were about to collapse from fatigue. Going up the hill with a heavy mountain bike = difficult. I really need to invest in a road bike. It’s just too hilly here. Anyway back to food….once inside my apt, I headed straight towards the fridge, opened the door and I saw leftovers from last nights dinner already to eat. That’s when I got lazy. I saved that delicious sandwich for a later time.

Cup of Earl Grey tea with a splash of soy milk. Every time I have a cup of tea, a fellow blogger comes to mind. You know who you are

Yesterday’s Eats:

Lunch:

I had the last of the “shark-fin” soup.

Leftovers from last night.

Dinner:

Baked tofu with Asian green beans and garlic. Along with brown rice.

We still have left over wedding food. This is the Lemon Grass Tofu with veggies and a sweet sauce.

I ended the night with random snacking and munching and this little bowl of Puffins Original and Kirkland organic soy milk

Wedding Prep Pics

I never told you guys what the favors were did I? Sorry, completely cross my mind. Well, as I mentioned before, there were two parts to the favors.

The first part: A CD filled with 17 meaning songs that Long and I determined to represent our relationship.

The cover had pictures of us (& a few of our kitties) over the years.

There was an insert inside that went into detail about each song and why we chose it.

The actual CD was labeled with a picture from our previous wedding in Cambodia. There were 6 different pictures.

(I didn’t get a chance to get photos of the favors from the wedding, but this is what they looked like. Try to ignore the bad lighting and ugly bkgd).

(Front cover and back cover, respectively)

One image of the CD labels…

Another image….

and another.

These are the CD inserts with the song titles and the explanations.

The second part: Homemade Truffles made by moi with the help of Long and a very helpful cousin.

There were three different types of truffles each with either Brandy, Grand Mariner or Bailey’s.

Two of the three were made of dark chocolate (Brandy & Grand Mariner)

The other was made of white chocolate (this had Bailey’s)

After melting the chocolate with heavy cream, vanilla extract on a double boiler, I added the alcohol. Here are two of them below.

Stir…..

Pour…

Make sure there was an even layering, chill, form into balls, chill again, then dip into your favorite flavors. I used toasted coconut, powdered chocolate, macadamia nuts and toasted hazelnuts.

Unfortunately, I didn’t get a picture of the finished product. I hate to make you all wait, but I have no choice. It might be better this way because you get to see the photographers professional photographs of them.

In the end, both of the favors turned out to be a huge hit. Everyone loved the personal touches we gave. Some guests collected all 6 CDs and some collected more than 4 boxes of truffles.