Cooking with Grammy Nominated John Two-Hawks

  

   We had a super weekend with a beautiful bride and groom.  From the rehearsal dinner, to the huge horse and buggy and all the way to the perfect dinner~it was all fabulous. Hard to get better than that!  Well, it did.  We asked Grammy Nominated John Two-Hawks if would play his favorite flute for the guests at breakfast.  Not only did he play wonderfully, I also schmoozed him into staying another night and being a celebrity chef with me in the kitchen on Sunday night. 
  It is Nurses Week and we hosted a dinner party for some wonderful ladies from Hannibal Regional Hospital.  John Two-Hawks took the challenge and donned a chef's jacket and cooked right along next to me.  You have to understand this is a huge deal.  I actually coerced him into understanding it can be fun on the other side of the counter.  For someone who states he can only cook a Marie Callender's frozen pot pie, and is serious, he found it was much more fun than he could imagine.  He grilled the wedding skewers, diced up herbs and bell peppers and garnished the dinner plates beautifully.  When it was time to take the meals out to the women he carried three plates in one hand like a pro.  We joked that although he is a Lakota Indian, full blooded, I was still a bit nervous on allowing him to torch the creme brulee.  My son says they invented fire! He sprinkled the sugar and I  took over with 'Grandmother Butane' to torch the tops.  

  This was one of the busiest weeks we have had in a long time with party after party, event after event event, but I can truly say it was also the most rewarding week as well.  We have had great dinner guests, fabulous speakers (even the doc that spoke on gout!!), wedding and topped it off with JTH.  I think I have him turned on to the live cam idea and he will start that as soon as he and Peggy, his sweet wife return to Eureka Springs.
  I will keep you posted on the llamas, they are driving me crazy and still hanging on tight to the babies.  Will let you know when they decide to show themselves to the world.  Sorry, the groom, John didn't see the delivery before they  both took off for Costa Rica!