Last night's dinner was a a beauty of a meal created with and shared among friends. Our good friend came to stay for the weekend, armed with a cooler stocked with foods and accessories gifted to her by friends and family. Beef from her family's farm, rhubarb from a co-worker, a rhubarb cookbook written by a friend of a friend. She also brought a most wonderful cake pan that she and another friend bought for me as a gift!
To these ingredients and components we added some of what was in our pantry and what is ripe for the picking in our garden and woods, and the makings of a seasonal feast were thus assembled. Our purpose was to ring in summer and provide a delicious layover meal for two other friends who were passing through on their way from Minnesota to Memphis.
Oh, the things we ate!
Fried Hen of the Woods
Fresh bread baked by an aspiring member of the St. Paul Bread Club
Pickled rhubarb and grilled kale salad with goat cheese
inspired by a recipe in Kim Ode's Rhubarb Rennaissance
inspired by a recipe in Kim Ode's Rhubarb Rennaissance
Peterson Farms Beef burgers
Honey cake
Rhubarb sauce
Oh, good gracious.
After dinner, Alexander snoozed while the travelers perused routes to Tennessee.
With full bellies and a thermos of coffee, the roadtrippers drove off into the sunset, leaving the rest of us to enjoy the fireflies from the screen porch. It was delightful.
Today, old friends who live in Seattle came by for the afternoon and evening. The two of them, their two dogs, and their 7 week old baby are on the last leg of their epic three week long cross-country road trip.
I've got the itch to see some new places myself, but we'll see how far I get this summer.
Its nice here, too.
The food looks fabulous, but your hosta look pretty good too. I'm jealous.
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