NO... MORE... FOOD!

When my family undertakes to plan and prepare a holiday meal they have no restraint. My family won't pick a few dishes and that will go well together and then call it good. First, they think of every possible dish (side or main) that has ever been associated with said holiday. Second, they make a list of everything they want to eat for said holiday. Third, they review the two lists and refuse to remove any item from either list. Fourth, they ask any extended family or guests what they would like to eat for said holiday and they add those items to one of the two original lists. Fifth, they make EVERYTHING and it takes days. The meal is usually over in a matter of 20 minutes or so and everyone is sick. Then they bring out dessert.

There you go. That was my 4th of July--well, that and copious amounts of time with family and a monsoon with hail and flooding in the middle of the parade.