Tag: cooking
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New Year’s Eve 2019
We have marvelous friends (more like family) who, for some unfathomable reason, decided to host a New Year’s Eve dinner and invited us to help cook (the unfathomable part of it was letting us help cook). What that really meant, of course, is that they allowed us into their kitchen to create a gigantic mess.…
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Thanksgiving 2018
We love Thanksgiving. In particular, we love hosting Thanksgiving—the more, the merrier (especially for the extroverts in the family). This year, we sat 32 people for dinner, including several new attendees! (It’s always lovely to discover new orphans to welcome to Thanksgiving as well as welcoming back returning orphans.) Here is the complete Thanksgiving menu…
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Thanksgiving 2017
We sat 41 people for dinner for Thanksgiving this year. Well, technically, 37 adults (if you include one 16 year old velociraptor) and 4 kids under 10. The menu was as follows: Thai pumpkin soup with gougeres Smoked turkey Roasted turkey with confit legs Stock-braised turkey legs Deep fried turkey Roasted pork shoulder Roast duck…
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Parent Potluck 2017
One of the lovely traditions at the kids’ school is that of parent potlucks. During the fall, various parents volunteer to host potlucks at their homes for the parents of the grade. We always try to host at least one, but sometimes schedules get in the way. After not being able to host last year,…
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Dinner party – December 2015
Some friends of ours were hosting a dinner party as part of a school event, and we offered to help out with the cooking. They kindly agreed to let us do so and, again, with major help from Robert, Jim’s nephew, we served the following: Apple rutabaga soup with gougeres and Parmesan tuiles (wine: 2002…
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Dinner Party – November 4, 2015
We hosted a dinner party at our house last night on behalf of our kids’ school. It was a day of prep and cooking, and we couldn’t have done it without Jim’s nephew, Robert, who was a tremendous help. Here is our dining room: We served the following: Thai Pumpkin Soup with Homemade Gougeres (unfortunately,…
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Institute for Justice dinner
Jim is on the board of the Institute for Justice, and we had the board and almost everyone in the organization (approximately 44 people) over for dinner last night. Robert, Jim’s nephew, came out and helped cook. Without him, we would never have been able to pull this dinner off. The menu was as follows…
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Thanksgiving
We sat 25 people down for Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday. The extroverted half of the family was giddy with excitement. The introverted half of the family was delighted at the crowd and equally delighted when the evening ended. Here’s the menu of what was served: Thai Pumpkin Soup Fried Turkey Smoked Turkey Roasted Turkey Ham…
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Dinner with Friends, Take 2
We hosted another dinner party as part of our donation to our school’s auction to raise money for financial aid. During the time between our first school auction dinner party and this one, we bought a new dining room table and chairs, so this is what the new setup looks like (we’re quite pleased with…
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Dinner with Friends
In a moment of arguable insanity, we donated a home-cooked dinner at our house for our school auction. The auction was last April, and, naturally, given everyone’s schedules, the dinner didn’t take place until this past Saturday. The good news about this is that the house renovations are finally complete and the artwork is all…