Seattle Party: Now in Brunch Flavor!

Full Disclosure: This is a backdated post. I wrote it after the blog was created, but have written it in the style of an in-progress blog so that anyone reading from the beginning will get a more sensible narrative than time-jumping like James Cole through our wedding planning.

By and large, up to this point I have let Girl Scout Fiancée do the bulk of the pre-planning for the Seattle wedding celebration party. It's been her baby from the beginning, and other than my insistence on two key elements (fun, and Men's Room Red beer) and the occasional near-fainting episode when she mentions a cost to me, I've mostly been content to let her plan the local party. She has a vision, and my job is to make sure that vision happens in a way that is a win for me, her, and all of our guests.

I may need to invest in one of these. All this planning is giving me the vapors!

We got some pricing back from one of our first-choice food trucks and it was...well, it was ludicrous. Clearly their catering is geared more toward corporate events and mega-huge parties thrown by rich people. I believe my exact response to the e-mail was, "HAHAHAHAHAno." Fortunately, Girl Scout Fiancée is always thinking on her feet, and is about a million times better at thinking of things that are fun and unique, so today she came up with a counterproposal: instead of doing a lunch or dinner at the party, we move the start time up a couple of hours and have a brunch-themed party. I loved the idea, mostly because I'll pretty much do anything with the word "brunch" in it.

As she is prone to do, Girl Scout Fiancée  already had a replacement food truck in mind, the Seattle Biscuit Company food truck. I hit up the website, and immediately knew this was meant to be when I read the slogan: Southern Born, Northwest Raised. If that's not a fitting metaphor for my own life (born in Tennessee, moved to Seattle seven years ago), I don't know what is. Fortunately, today the food truck was up in a relatively accessible part of Seattle, so we drove up, grabbed Girl Scout Fiancée's friend (who visits once every few months after stints as an observer on Alaskan fishing vessels), heretofore known as the All-Seeing Eye, from her dorm in the city, and decided to do our own "tasting menu" experience (otherwise known as standing in line with the other customers and just buying food).

The Seattle Biscuit Company Menu

I got the Willie Lee, which is a pretty traditional breakfast biscuit. Girl Scout Fiancée and the All-Seeing Eye got the special, which was an egg with andouille sausage and jalapeño jelly. I also grabbed one of the honey-and-butter biscuits to have tomorrow for breakfast, and we got a side of the cheese grits as well. Of course, I needed coffee, and though it probably makes me a bad Seattle hipster only Starbucks would do, so we drove to the Safeway nearby, grabbed a Starbucks from the inside, and then headed to a nearby park. It was sunny, open, and there was a picnic table where we could enjoy our biscuits at our own pace.

This thing (the Willie Lee) is the size of a large double cheeseburger, for scale.

One of the best side dishes: cheese grits made with Beecher's cheese.

Totally. Worth. It. The biscuits were delicious (though I think I would have been fine not having jelly on my otherwise savory biscuit), and we were all stuffed by the end. Barring any kind of problems working out a contract or menu, I think we've found the food truck for our Seattle celebration!

Girl Scout Fiancée enjoying her biscuit.