So Wee-B and I are headed home for the summer. Yes! The SUMMER! I refuse to believe it will be any longer than that. Maybe I should start a blog and call it something like "Desperately Mothering" or "Yes I Broke Your Immigration Laws Without Meaning To But Must You Punish Me For Trying To Make It Right?!?!" There's a lot of 'splaining to do and not enough space on the internet to blab about it on but for now... To all the other single mothers out there I say to you that with all our faults and desperate decision making I'm am proudest to be a member of our team than of any other!!!
Okay stop crying... Type on!
Right... While we're in Trinidad (by the way Trinidad I've been meaning to congratulate you on finally waking to ass up!) I have finally decided to take a stall at UpMarket. Well maybe. Ugh! I am no good at making decisions outside of the kitchen... "Will this chocolate cake taste just as delicious if I sneak in some basil and a dash masala???" Poof! Magic! "Should I take a chance and invest some of my seriously pitiful "savings" in a stall at UpMarket???" Late nights... Crickets chirping... Yes! WAIT!! No! Well maybe... I don't know! Monster headache!
Just what exactly is UpMarket? Its Trinidad's answer to the farmer's market. Its funny... I look back on facebook albums dedicated to Brighton and the description of each one goes a little something like "If we ever have to go back to Trinidad, farmer's market is what I'll miss most about Bim!" and here I am, faced with this "what if", and welcoming me warmly back is a little something dreamed up by a foreigner, coxing me in to a state of "well maybe this won't be so bad!"
To date UpMarket has opened only once. It was held on the 12th (I think) of June at my old high school and won some pretty awesome reviews! I'm glad the Trinis are happy because there is no kind of slander like the filthy brand we spew if we think something failed or was pretentious! The next date is July 10th, same venue, a hop, skip and a jump from where we will be staying, giving me exactly 9 days to start cooking for this &alreadyIamhavingpalpatationsan&openinganexcelspreadsheetinanattemptatschedulingmyselfintofeelinglikeIcandothis!
When I worry my fingers can find the spacebar!
Here's what I figured... I'd pick one brilliant and gimmicky menu to rope the crowd in, use that as my main draw, and then feature one or two items from my other menus, thank you folks for stopping by and forking over your money, here's a menu/book to take home with you, hope that coxinha wins you a proposal! So... Without further blabbage... Here is my menu (maybe) for UpMarket (so far):
Feature Menu: Meat Candy
Meat Candy - Dulce de Leche and Cream Cheese Buns With Bacon
Bacon Caramels
Bacon, Cheese and Caramalized Onion Stuffed Steak Burgers
Bacon Jam
Bacon Brittle
Hot Buns - Plain Dulce de Leche and Cream Cheese Buns
Euro Hotdog Buns
Pizza Buns (if I can't do the hotdog buns)
Eat It Too... Cakes - Sweet and Salt Cake with Fleur de Sel
Hummingbird Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Daily Cookie - Sugar Cookies in various shapes and pipings
The V Word - Vegan Sugar Cookies
Vegan Ice Cream Sandwiches
Tooth Rot - Bruleed Snow Eggs
Pina Colada Mousse
Stuffed - Coxinha
That sounds like a lot right?! I'm checking myself for fever as I type this. Sure I'm going to scale WAY down but I definitely HAVE to get at least the bacons, the buns, the cookies and the coxinha in come hell or high water!
Think I need to lie down!
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