{"id":10729,"date":"2025-11-02T12:23:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T20:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/?p=10729"},"modified":"2025-11-12T15:50:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T23:50:21","slug":"reunion-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/reunion-at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Reunion, at Last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10730\" src=\"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ffamilytable-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ffamilytable-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ffamilytable.jpg 514w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10739\" src=\"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ffamilyflowers-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>If you wait three decades, sometimes reunions can occur. Blue-eyed family traversed the country to a greeting of Sunday brunch at ChezHelvetica. \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-10749\" src=\"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/FfamilyMain-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><em>Barefoot<\/em> <em>Contessa&#8217;<\/em>s Baked <a href=\"https:\/\/rosesbakingpassion.com\/barefoot-contessa-baked-french-toast-casserole-recipe\/\">French Toast Casserole\u00a0<\/a>made with Challah and a Streussel topping, served as the centerpiece for our guests of German and Irish ancestry. Roasted <em>Aidell&#8217;s<\/em> Chicken Apple Breakfast sausage accompanied the French Toast, which was then doused with sweet Maple Syrup. Farmers Market Peaches were filled with a delightful mixture of Fag\u00e9 Yogurt, Blueberries and Raspberries, adding an extra touch of joy to the meal.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-10745\" src=\"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ffamilyguests-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-10744\" src=\"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ffamilybuffet-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-10746\" src=\"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ffamilysiblings-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lively, heartfelt conversation about family matriarchs long gone, grand children (even great, great grand children) and current interests filled the afternoon, sweetened with delectable Chocolates from Bruge, Belgium. Then it was off to <em>Golden Gate Park<\/em> or <em>Yosemite<\/em> or <em>Home<\/em>, which we are so fortunate to have!<\/p>\n<p>&#x1f495;<strong>\u00a0In honor of Grace Hahne, Dolly McGarry and Edna Sentner<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\"><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you wait three decades, sometimes reunions can occur. Blue-eyed family traversed the country to a greeting of Sunday brunch at ChezHelvetica. \u00a0Barefoot Contessa&#8217;s Baked French Toast Casserole\u00a0made with Challah and a Streussel topping, served as the centerpiece for our guests of German and Irish ancestry. Roasted Aidell&#8217;s Chicken Apple Breakfast sausage accompanied the French &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/reunion-at-last\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reunion, at Last&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[97,517,354,9,263],"class_list":["post-10729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-aidells","tag-barefoot-contessa","tag-fage-yogurt","tag-safeway","tag-va-farmers-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10729"}],"version-history":[{"count":55,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10788,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10729\/revisions\/10788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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