{"id":777,"date":"2013-07-18T22:02:50","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T22:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macrinabakery.com\/blog\/?p=777"},"modified":"2013-07-19T17:25:26","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T17:25:26","slug":"feast-of-st-macrina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.macrinabakery.com\/blog\/feast-of-st-macrina\/","title":{"rendered":"The Feast of St. Macrina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had such a great time at our annual <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.macrinabakery.com\/blog\/?p=61\">Feast of St. Macrina<\/a>\u00a0event! Each year our family gathers in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/macrinabakery.com\/history.php\">honor of the bakery&#8217;s namesake<\/a>\u00a0to bond over our shared love of great food and community. While St. Macrina the Younger&#8217;s actual feast day is today, we spent Tuesday evening unwinding over dinner and games.<\/p>\n<p>After closing the caf\u00e9s a little early, Owner Leslie Mackie, Savory Chef Elizabeth Hall, and Production Manager Jane Cho prepared\u00a0an incredible meal for the entire group.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.macrinabakery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Group-Eating.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-778\" alt=\"Group Dinner\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.macrinabakery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Group-Eating.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.macrinabakery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Group-Eating.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.macrinabakery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Group-Eating-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.macrinabakery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Group-Eating-436x300.jpg 436w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Macrina family dinner wouldn&#8217;t be complete without an amazing dessert. Summer Shortcake featuring our Shortcake Biscuit, fresh berries, and vanilla ice cream was the grand finale. You can find the recipe for this perfect summer treat attached to bags of our Shortcake Biscuits.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.macrinabakery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/photo11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-794\" alt=\"photo[1]\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.macrinabakery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/photo11.jpg\" width=\"572\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.macrinabakery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/photo11.jpg 572w, https:\/\/blog.macrinabakery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/photo11-300x291.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.macrinabakery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/photo11-308x300.jpg 308w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.macrinabakery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Summer-Shortcake-Prep11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-793\" alt=\"Summer Shortcake Prep1\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.macrinabakery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Summer-Shortcake-Prep11.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.macrinabakery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Summer-Shortcake-Prep11.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.macrinabakery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Summer-Shortcake-Prep11-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.macrinabakery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Summer-Shortcake-Prep11-362x300.jpg 362w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After dinner we split into teams for a rollicking relay race that included a beanbag toss, cupcake eating contest, and cake writing competition. The rain moved in at one point, but that didn&#8217;t stop us from having fun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.macrinabakery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Toss-Pair1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-786\" alt=\"Toss Pair1\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.macrinabakery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Toss-Pair1.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.macrinabakery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Toss-Pair1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.macrinabakery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Toss-Pair1-285x300.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.macrinabakery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Cake-Eating-Comp2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-787\" alt=\"Cake Eating Comp2\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.macrinabakery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Cake-Eating-Comp2.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.macrinabakery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Cake-Eating-Comp2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.macrinabakery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Cake-Eating-Comp2-274x300.jpg 274w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing like some friendly competition to bring our family closer. We really couldn&#8217;t ask for a better group of people to spend the day with. Thank you, Seattle, for giving us the afternoon off!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.macrinabakery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Cake-Writing-Group.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-789\" alt=\"Cake Writing Group\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.macrinabakery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Cake-Writing-Group.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.macrinabakery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Cake-Writing-Group.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.macrinabakery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Cake-Writing-Group-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.macrinabakery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Cake-Writing-Group-462x300.jpg 462w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Look for more photos from our 2013 Feast of Macrina event on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.10151600455634102.1073741826.102274534101&amp;type=3\">Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had such a great time at our annual Feast of St. Macrina\u00a0event! Each year our family gathers in\u00a0honor of the bakery&#8217;s namesake\u00a0to bond over our shared love of great food and community. While St. Macrina the Younger&#8217;s actual feast &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.macrinabakery.com\/blog\/feast-of-st-macrina\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[83,80,79,82,329,22,81],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-holidays","tag-elizabeth-hall","tag-feast-day","tag-feast-of-st-macrina","tag-jane-cho","tag-leslie-mackie","tag-macrina-bakery","tag-st-macrina-the-younger"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Feast of St. Macrina - Macrina Bakery Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.macrinabakery.com\/blog\/feast-of-st-macrina\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Feast of St. Macrina - Macrina Bakery Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We had such a great time at our annual Feast of St. Macrina\u00a0event! 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