The invitation had this amazing description I just have to share with you (it explains it all):
"What's the dish? It hails from the Piedmont region in beautiful northwest Italy and is called: Bagna Cauda (BONN-ya CAW-da). It's like a fondue, for all intents and purposes, only from the heavens. It has four basic ingredients: insane amounts of garlic, anchovies, some olive oil and some love (otherwise known as, "buttah"). Its one of the most blissful thing I've ever tasted in my life, next to Mexican food and breakfast (obviously). There will be plenty of other food if you're a little skittish about the idea, but unless you are allergic to fish, you'll probably be asked to try it once... out of the respect for all Italians."
Brian has suck a way with words! Yes, the event was just as great as the description made it sound.
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Saturday, December 8th - Tim and I headed back down to Roseville, only two weeks after our last visit with Brian and McKenzie. We had an item we needed to return at Ikea and had a wonderful lunch at this place called "Five Guys" (check it out at http://www.fiveguys.com/). I think its pretty new to California.
We then went back to the Helvick's and spent the rest of the afternoon hanging out and preparing our items for the evening's festivities. We brought organic apple cider that I made 100% from scratch, using apples from my grandma's apple trees; organic apple sauce that I made from straining the cider; and cocktail meatballs (chili sauce and grape jelly).
The evening was spent hanging out with and getting to know great people. Their families joined in too and it was nice to get to spend some time with them too.
We topped the evening off when there were only a few of us left, with this wonderful desert (if you want to call it that). This amazingness is called Tim Tam slams. Cookies they call biscuits, you bight off a tiny piece of two opposite corners and suck hot cocoa through it. The Tim Tam will catastrophically reduced soon after this process is started, and the whole biscuit must be crammed into your mouth as soon as this happens or your cocoa will be filled with pieces of melted biscuit. We had a few new people to this, and so we spread the love.
We stayed the night at their place again and joined them at their church Calvary Metro of Roseville. We had a wonderful time, the music and message was inspiring. We stopped at this coffee shop called Bloom, which carries a top-notch beans from a roasting house in Santa Cruz. Got drinks and bfast there. Got lunch together after and headed back to their place for the Sunday afternoon football game.
Man! We love hangout out with Brian and McKenzie! They are amazing.
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