The Pines was invited to offer food as a food vendor at the second annual “A Taste of Wines and Blues Festival” held at the AEL BEKA Estates this past Saturday. This southern plantation-style estate provided a wonderful site for this wine tasting benefit for the Red Cross.
The Pines was one of four vendors providing food for purchase for the event. Guests bought tickets and redeemed them for glasses of wine from eleven local and regional wineries. Additional bottles of wine could be purchased and enjoyed onsite or packaged to stock the wine rack back home.
Guests enjoyed music provided by local musicians while sipping wine under the shade trees over looking the landscaped grounds on the back acres of the AEL BEKA Estate. The weather was beautiful for the event Saturday. A continuous breeze cooled the event under blue skies. We cooked all day and served Pulled Pork, Grilled Chicken on a bed of Fried Rice, and Char Grilled Buffalo Style Chicken Wings as featured in an earlier entry. click HERE
After we got the trailer in place and got set up, I visited some other booths before I started cooking for the day. I knew some of the girls in the booth next door. I think they were from the Redeemer Lutheran Church. They called their cook team the “Desperate Church Wives”. I know Kim as my classmate in high school and asked her what they were cooking. She told me they were serving pork skewers marinated in a Sati Babbi Sauce. THEN SHE TOLD ME THEY GOT THE RECIPE OFF THIS WEB LOG !!!
I was floored !!! I think some of the girls were waiting to see how I would react when Kimbie (as we used to call her in school ) told me they were using my recipe. Of course I felt they had paid me a big compliment that they would use my recipe off this Web Log. If you want to check out the recipe you can find it by clicking HERE
Here are the “Desperate Church Wives” at the beginning of the day.
Here is classmate “Kimbie” showing off her pork skewers. (They were excellent, by the way)
Here we are at our booth. Brenda, Katie, and I put in a long day serving the guests.
Here are some of the wineries represented at this event.
What a peaceful setting…




























