Planning ahead is essential when hosting a long awaited dinner – especially because of the hours and hours needed to slow cook the beef brisket.

It’s not something that you can do all the time, but once in a while, it is nice to let time make the food even more delicious. Maybe even more so because you’re sharing it with good friends.

Once you have that set and ready – started at 8AM – It is good to then linger, spending hours and hours talking. You can bet we did. It was the right way to catch up and be able to fill everyone in on the finer details of life that are not part of social media, nor textable.

~ Dawn aka Hat Girl