November 12, 2009

• Dinner Party

  Beth and I went to a dinner party tonight given by my mother-in-law (age 91 on December 7th) at my daughter's restaurant, and we had a wonderful time.  There were fourteen people in attendance, and the food was to die for.

  We started off with drinks and hors d'oeuvres that consisted of the best bite-size crab cakes I've ever eaten and a bite-size round of corn bread topped with grilled smoke sausage and a dallop of apricot chutney.  Next was a Caesar salad.  The entree was beef tenderloin with sauce Bearnaise with fingerling potatoes and fried green tomato.  The dessert was fresh berries with Chantilly cream.  I had a glass of excellent red wine with the meal.  I asked for a go-box for my leftovers, and my daughter filled up a large box with enough meat, potatoes, and rolls to feed us for several meals.

  Tonight's occasion was the perfect solution to how to entertain when you live in a retirement center, as my mother-in-law does.  I was more than proud of my daughter, Catherine, and my son-in-law, Mike, for seeing to it that Liza's great-grandmother entertained her friends in style.

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