Now here we have the 'dinners' portion of our ladies trip! These photos are from Friday and Saturday night evenings, where we took our time with happy hour, munching on appetizers, drinking drinks, lounging about, casually prepping and putting things together. Both nights we started drinking and munching around 7 PM and sat for dinner close to 9 PM. Since we didn't have kids to feed and put to bed, the pace and agenda was very different; it felt so grown up and European of us.
On Friday, Laura and I were on dinner duty and we started off with ripe tomato, red onion and sardines on baguette slices toasted with olive oil, a romesco sauce (which is a roasted red pepper, roasted tomato, toasted almonds and baguette, garlic, olive oil, paprika and sherry vinegar, all blended together) on baguette, with cheese and grapes. And wine, so much wine. We started dinner with a green salad with nuts and feta, topped with grilled peaches, and the main course was freshly made pesto tossed into Campanelle pasta, topped with roasted summer vegetables. We made salty honey pie for dessert!
On Saturday, we started happy hour with a cocktail made of elderberry green tea & gin, and Martha and Mignon whipped up fabulous dishes from this cookbook, The Farmhouse Cookbook, by Sarah Mayor, which has some beautiful photos and recipes. They made asparagus
soup with poached egg, a lovely green salad, roast pork with cherry sauce on top of mashed potatoes, and lemon possets with grilled peaches for dessert.
Reading!
And happy about it. This was a great read, by the way. I'll post more about it in my next "What I'm Reading."
These people here are all so special to me.
thank you again for taking all these, you really do tell stories so well
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