Arlund wrote:Adrienne Lundquist, I will be attending. Looking forward to my first lthforum picnic. I will be bringing A salad and a dessert. Will update with more specifics.

As an update I will be bringing my husband Larry Lundquist. He is more than happy to write his own name tag given the late notice, but he couldn't resist the more I talked about the amazing event ahead.

The salad will be an orzo Greek style salad and the dessert will be lime sugar cookies.

Cathy2 wrote:Hi,

Check if you name or food label is correct. I will be printing them this evening.

Regards,
Cathy

Just want to make sure that our guest, molte e, is on the list.

Thanks,

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... also bringing a batch of Bob's Mai Tais.
... also Knobby (the pup) will be in attendance.

May I suggest a Twitter hashtag of #lthpicnic ?

Wish like hell I could be there - have fun and take TONS of pics!

Panther in the Den wrote:... also bringing a batch of Bob's Mai Tais.
... also Knobby (the pup) will be in attendance.

Wil you be serving your Mai Tai's from another location or from the Tiki Bar--I ask because I'm making bar menu and would be happy to include your drink if you'd like.

Ok everyone--here is the menu for Le Tiki Hut:

BAR MENU

Temple Destroyer
Blue Hawaiian
Gold Coast Punch
Pink Flamingo
Mai Tai

Pu Pu Platter

Cold

Tiki Nuts
Tuna Poke
Tako Poke
Lomi Lomi Salmon

Hot

Mini Musubi
Hot Dog Rumaki
BBQ Pork & Shrimp Eggrolls
Char Siu Spare Ribs
Fried Wonton
Takoyaki

Salads

Carrot-Pineapple Salad
Sesame Noodle Salad with Cucumbers
Grilled Eggplant salad
Macaroni Salad

Mains

Kalua Pork
Polynesian Grilled Chicken
Purple and White Rice

Desserts

Coconut Pandan Cake w/Coconut Buttercream & Passion Fruit Curd
Macanese Egg Custard Tarts

Condiments

Poi
Tiki Ghost Dragon sauce
PG's Sweet & Sour Sauce

ALOHA--see you tomorrow!

Wow. Sounds great!

Cathy, I think now it may be more like 12:30 when I arrive to replenish the water and ice supplies. I'll try to come earlier if I can.

Katie wrote:Cathy, I think now it may be more like 12:30 when I arrive to replenish the water and ice supplies. I'll try to come earlier if I can.

No problem.

Hi,

I think Polynesian chicken is now Huli Huli Chicken.

The purple and white rice is more a side rather than a main.

Working on nametags now.

Regards,

Hi,

The last of the nametags will be printed the morning.

It is only too late to join the day after tomorrow.

Regards,

One of those weekends for me. Something came up that will prevent me from attending today. Very disappointed I wont be able to make it. Hope everyone has a blast.

Ugh.....unfortunately, I have a family emergency come up that I have to deal with, so I won't be able to make the picnic today. I was soooooo looking forward to it and meeting all of you. I will catch you guys the next time around.....sorry.

Sorry I had to leave suddenly and didn't get to say goodbye to most of you. Anyway, the food and company was great. Thank you!

Another perfect LTH picnic! Thank you, Cathy2 and everyone else who worked on this lovely event. I'm still relishing the incredible variety of flavors and cuisines represented, and all the smiling faces I saw.

So sorry to have missed this. My plane didn't get into O'Hare until 4:00 pm, and there was no way I could get home and get to the picnic before sunset. I was pleased to see, however, that you have a beautiful day for the picnic. I imagine you also had beautiful food.

More charcuterie than I remember ever seeing in one place!
The Tiki Bar was amazing, and apparently appeased the tiki gods to give us, once again, stellar weather.

Thanks to all of LTH for making this one of the events of the hear, but especially Cathy2.

This was awesome. Lindz and I were super happy to have met you all, and had an awesome time. Thank you to everybody who organized everything, and thanks for being so welcoming! Hope to see you all again soon!

The tiki bar was spectacular, huge props to all who were involved. That level of work was greatly appreciated.

I could not have chose a better day to skip my current diet regimen, I regret not a single bite!

Arlund wrote:

Arlund wrote:Adrienne Lundquist, I will be attending. Looking forward to my first lthforum picnic. I will be bringing A salad and a dessert. Will update with more specifics.

As an update I will be bringing my husband Larry Lundquist. He is more than happy to write his own name tag given the late notice, but he couldn't resist the more I talked about the amazing event ahead.

The salad will be an orzo Greek style salad and the dessert will be lime sugar cookies.

I wished I had the salad. The cookies were addictive. I was stuffed and could not stop eating them. So simple. And limey.

kenji wrote:I might be able to gather about 8 people up. Folks from our local Reddit group. They'd live nearby. Not sure what to do about inviting them and getting them fed. Not sure many of them like to cook but I could whip up enough to feed them. You guys want "strangers" to eat your food?

I'm thinking about creating hot smoked mackerel, then icing some to serve cold. Maybe I grab some bagels up on Touhy and Cicero. I could also make enough Haiga rice too. Maybe do a smoked fish, rice, and some kinda crunch cruciferous veggie. We also learned how to make the refrigerator pickels at DANK Haus, maybe I whip a vat of those up?

I now wish I had read this earlier. It wouldn't have been the same but I would have lobbied for someone to bring smoked mackerel, rice, and some "kinda crunchy cruciferous veggie."



RIP Kenji

A reminder of how sweet and small the world can be when we eat together.

LauraS: That was one helluva cake. Glad I snatched that up!

As we were getting ready to leave, I found a pair of child's corrective eyeglasses. Narrow ovals with a very colorful frame. PM me if your family is missing them!

good time y'all - glad we did the trek in -

best bite I had -

BR's eggrolls - I prolly have eaten as many different eggrolls as anyone in the past 9 months - close to 50 different spots - gotta say Brads might have been the best I have tasted -

fresh from the fryer, nice balance of fillings(pork, shrimp, etc.) and a nice touch of lip smackin peanut butter - top notch boss:



I was somewhat busy grilling up 12# of chicken thighs but these bites I got:

- Panthers Mai Tais and Pancit were good stuff
- always gotta grab a slab of the Will Special
- rumaki hotdogs I dug
- attrill's takoyaki - most intersting bite of the day to me - loved the texture - flavor
- chili colorado with the tortillas for dipping was a fav as well.

probably forgetting something & I missed out on way to much as usual socializing.

also really fun to bump into some folks I hadnt seen in a couple years.

There were SO many wonderful things, but I cannot stop thinking about Swingbossa's Vaghareli Makai. Is it the David Leibovitz recipe? I think I need to make more...

What a blast!

The picnic is always one of a very few "can't miss" events of the year for me but this was one was really special. From the construction of Little Tiki Hut (thanks to Teresa for coming up with the best name) to seeing all of the wonderful, creative food and beverages displayed there to enjoying all of the delicious things everyone, Tiki and not, brought on a picture perfect day, this was one of the very best.

I didn't get to try a whole lot of the pavilion food but a few favorites were darcjoan's fantastic gazpacho aspic (PLEASE post the recipe), the pork belly stew, Octarine's Bo Ssam, Joel and Sue's matching dutch ovens of Bobotie and Malva Pudding and justjoan's blueberry buckle.

Most of all, thanks to Cathy for doing all of the organizing, everyone who contributed and, of course, to team Tiki!! Laikom & atrill for your amazing combination of design/build expertise and mad cooking skills; mbh & Iris Arbor for (wo)manning the bar like the pros you are; Tyler (best spares ever), Alex & Kevin for being so handy; Teresa for your lovely sign and lovelier egg tarts; Petite Gourmande (mmm...fried wontons), fropones (off menu lamb spares--delish), jimswside (juicy tasty chicken), BR (THAT CAKE! THOSE EGGROLLS!), and everyone else who cooked, mixed, decorated or otherwise helped out.

Can't wait til next year--we're already brainstorming ideas!

Sad to have missed this again. I thought of everyone as we drove past the area on the Edens on our way home. Can't wait to see more photos!

For the folks who couldn't make it (or those wanting to relive the magic )

What a fun event yesterday! Thanks, to everyone who participated, for making it so great. And a special thanks to C2, for all that you do. Of all our recurring annual events, the picnic is the most special and you're the main reason it gets accomplished so wonderfully every year.

It seems like each year the offerings get better and this year's edition was no exception. I ate and drank so many wonderful things, it was almost overwhelming. At some point, one must rely on his training to get through it all.

I managed to grab a shot of Tiki Town as things were just getting rolling, though I suspect and hope that some other shots will be posted here in the next few days.


Tiki Town @ the 2015 LTH Picnic

Already looking forward to next year!

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