Grumpy Guy and I discovered a while back that friend LeeLee's daddy, the Judge, loves all things Scottish. Including scotch. So when we saw him at dinner a few weeks back, we mentioned that we had brought some interesting libations back from our trip to Edinburgh this summer.... and we set a date to get together and sample a bit.
Friday the Thirteenth is our lucky day at Maison Cou Rouge, so it was a perfectly appropriate evening for a gathering.
There was the most wonderful assortment of friends-the Judge and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. T, who welcomed us with open arms when we first moved to Middle-of-Nowhere, our delightful musical friend Mrs. L, Lee Lee, and our German exchange student Oskar..... Ages 21 to 80. As my friend Jane reminded me "Friendship knows no age."
It was a communal meal--everyone brought something. We had a divine spinach dip appetizer, Paul Prudhomme's pork loin, sweet potatoes, baked potato and fennel casserole, salad, and bananas foster for dessert. Wine and lots of interesting and diverse scotch.
As it was the day before Valentine's Day, we had a red theme going, with tartan, of course.
And everyone wore either a family tartan or a favorite tartan.
The Judge and GG wore kilts, and looked mighty dashing.
We told Scottish jokes, stories of our travels, and laughed and laughed and laughed. Both Mrs. L and Oskar entertained us on the piano--Bach, Mozart and Schumann...and a little Rachmaninoff. We had so much fun, we've decided to get together on a regular basis.
I must confess one thing though. I'd been so crazy busy this past week, that all the regular weekly accumulation of "junque" around the house hadn't been put away...so at the last minute, I used the grown-up equivalent of the kid's throwing everything under the bed to straighten their rooms...I threw everything in my bedroom and shut the door.
Guess what I will be doing today?????
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