I Cater

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This is why you should invite me to your parties.

This is also why I will never succeed on any diet, but that’s another story.

Like any good Classicists, some friends and I got together on St. Patty’s Day to celebrate The Ides of March since green beer and jello shots clearly weren’t in our future. I offered to bring the entertainment(HBO’s Rome. Horribly inaccurate but highly entertaining) and a slew of baked goods. 

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Outrageous Triple Chocolate Brownies, which got a “really chocolaty” vote for itself.

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Better-Than-Boxed Brownies, which got a few nibbles.

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And Coconut Blondies with Lemon Drop Frosting, which definitely had the most crowd appeal.

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Lucky for me it’s not hard to please people who live off cafeteria food. After the show we sat around talking, eating brownies, and translating Latin. I know—we’re a wild bunch.

My point? Invite me to your parties and I promise to bring enough food to feed an army. And if it’s a toga party, well I’m already dressed for that.

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17 Responses to I Cater
  1. VeggieGirl
    March 19, 2011 | 9:07 am

    Consider yourself always invited to a party of mine 🙂

  2. Lauren at Keep It Sweet
    March 19, 2011 | 9:36 am

    You can come any time:-)

  3. Courtney
    March 19, 2011 | 10:07 am

    Come on over! Those brownies look sooo good. 🙂

  4. Erin @ Big Girl Feats
    March 19, 2011 | 10:51 am

    I can vouch for the deliciousness of the brownies. I still have two left…and I may or may not have added some to oatmeal…

  5. Melissa @ TryingToHeal
    March 19, 2011 | 10:52 am

    come over anytime. can we have just a party of 2? i might not want to share.

  6. Gabriela @ Une Vie Saine
    March 19, 2011 | 11:24 am

    You need to meet my high school’s Latin teacher. He would be so excited to hear about an Ides of March party.

  7. Corey @ the runner's cookie
    March 19, 2011 | 1:17 pm

    I can appreciate an Ides of March party! I took Latin for 3 yrs in high school and was terrible at it but I enjoyed it. I would take a brownie over a jello shot any day 🙂

  8. rebecca lustig
    March 19, 2011 | 3:04 pm

    Consider yourself invited to my next gig.

  9. ela
    March 19, 2011 | 3:20 pm

    Of course, to make it really authentic, you should have made barleycakes suffused with honey, garnished with larks tongues, and liberally seasoned with garum. Oh, and dried figs–they loved their dried figs…

    Movies like that and oh, have you seen Gladiator?–are instant snob-appeal for Classicists, aren’t they? We get way more laughs than should be legal…

  10. Averie (LoveVeggiesAndYoga)
    March 19, 2011 | 3:26 pm

    I would love you to come to one of my parties and bring brownies! Hell to the yes. Any trips planned to CA any time soon?

    🙂

  11. kate@ahealthypassion
    March 19, 2011 | 10:47 pm

    Ooh you can come to my parties if you bring those brownies Love the idea of coconut with lemon soo delicious!

  12. Hannah
    March 20, 2011 | 12:33 am

    Amen to being the caterer and loving it 🙂 I kinda want to find a job at a huge workplace so that I can bake allll the time for colleagues 🙂

  13. Baking 'n' Books
    March 20, 2011 | 12:57 am

    Send. Brownies. My. Way.

    Will Pay My Arm and Leg.

  14. Eden
    March 20, 2011 | 1:41 am

    Hey there!
    I am just cyber stalking anybody who wrote something flattering about me from my guest post on Janetha’s blog! Lol!
    Not really, I have life, I swear…
    anyhow…..this is all very nostalgic to my days in college. But i dropped out my junior year to go to, where else, culinary school so I could cater all the time! Funny enough, I went to a big party school but never been to a toga party.

  15. Kathleen @ Kat's Health Corner
    March 20, 2011 | 12:40 pm

    Your brownies look DIVINE! 😀 Instead of a cake, you could make some of your brownies into a Layered Brownie “Cake” in place of a birthday cake. Or make a Neopolitan Brownie Cake, with different brownie flavors for each layer. 🙂 Ohmygosh! 😀 That would be awesome! 😉

    xoxo
    Kathleen

  16. Toni
    March 20, 2011 | 8:58 pm

    the way to my heart is a brownie! Those look fabulous! oof!

  17. Madeline - Greens and Jeans
    March 21, 2011 | 8:35 am

    Are you bringing treats this weekend?