The Sish Kabob!

As I previously stated in many posts, Phil and I love food. But, who doesn’t? I personally was looking forward to tasting our wedding menu. My dad created the whole menu himself and I was super excited to try it. The owners and the chef at Tangier are Lebanese and I’m half Lebanese so it was a perfect match. Basically every special occasion growing up we had shish kabob. Also it doesn’t help that my mom makes a mean shish kabob. Phil’s 1st birthday as a couple I made him my mom’s famous shish kabob and rice pilaf. So it made sense when my Dad created the menu I had absolutely no objections to his choice of an entree. Wedding food is one of the most important things when it comes to have a successful wedding event. So, naturally we needed to taste our customized wedding menu. I wasn’t hungry enough for all the food that we were going to taste. We started out with some of the appetizers that we chose, which included hummus and baba ghanouj  and pita bread. Normally I don’t like baba ghanouj aka eggplant chick pea dip, but Tangier’s is very tasty and I couldn’t stop eating it.

We are painfully stuffed at this point

Another app that we tasted is our mashed potato bar. Phil and I fell in love with a mashed potato bar at the 2009 Barrister’s Ball. Barrister’s Ball is formal dance put on my law school and law schools everywhere. For those not familiar with the delicacy of a mashed potato bar, it is a variety of mashed potatoes served in a martini glass and you can put a bunch different toppings on the mashed potatoes such as gravy, butter, chives, cheese, bacon, or brown sugar.  Mashed potato bars are probably the best culinary invention since the sandwich…well I don’t know about that, but you get my point. My parents and Phil’s Dad had never had a mashed potato bar before so they were a little bit skeptical in trying it. After seeing all the topping laid out on a tray and pairing them with buttery mashed potato they were sold instantly. Other apps that we are having at the wedding but we didn’t try because the Lebanese chef was in Lebanon during our tasting, are vegetable platter and Spinach and Meat Pies.

After stuffing ourselves with a massive amounts of carbs we still had to find some room for 2 more courses. Up first was the shish kabobs. We tried a steak one and a chicken one. The chicken one was good but it was honey mustard flavored and it really didn’t go with the whole Arab food vibe we were going for. So we choose to have two steak kabobs. Then we tasted our late night meal. I copied this idea from my bridesmaid Kendra. When she got married she had make your sliders served at 10 pm. It was brilliant because it just the right type of food you need to have after a 4 or 5 hour open bar. When Phil was courting me in Columbus our favorite late night meal after a night of socializing was classic Columbus gyros.  You can’t find a gyro in Columbus that actually uses tzatziki instead of ranch dressing, but they are so good. Since our favorite are gyros and we are Greek we are having a late night gyro bar at our wedding. They taste really good and will do the perfect job of satisfying our guests 4th meal cravings.

Happy Parents approve of the meal