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| Kim's twin sister Susie (center) and Kim (right) |
A visitor from Grand Rapids
On Saturday December 15, it so happened that someone from Michigan who knew Susie's mother well, dropped by her shop to say hello. Kim, accompanied by her twin sister, brought greetings from west Michigan along with a pair of the largest smiles I've seen in a long time. (We would see Kim again, this time in Grand Rapids a little over a week later when we drove out for Christmas.)
Magali and her daughter Melodie
Thanksgiving dinner at Dick and Dorothy's house; with Barbara in the wings. . .
Saturday night at New Rivers
Susie (aka the French Tarte) and I paid a long-overdue return visit to one of our favorite eateries in a city that loves its food: New Rivers. Located in the shadow of the very first Baptist Church in the United States, in a building that has seen it's share of ups and downs in the past couple of centuries, you couldn't find better food or a warmer place to hang your hat for a couple of hours or so.
We both settled into a pair of Pilgrim '21 cocktails (Prosecco, gin, cranberry juice and Canton).
For starters Susie chose a simple (and simply delicious) Romaine salad and I tucked into Narragansett Bay scallops with Beau Vestal's own smokey bacon -- needless to say the evening was off to a great start.
I couldn't resist the steak with a root vegetable barley and incredibly scrumptious fresh mushrooms, while Susie settled on the Rhode Island fluke with fingerling potatoes and pickled peppers, which she thought tassty in the extreme (and Susie hates anything pickled).
We closed out the evening relaxing over a 20-year Tawny for me and Marie Brizzard over ice for the French Tarte.
Before we scooted out we stuck our heads in the kitchen to say hi and thanks to Beau and asked about their plans for New Year's -- last year we spent a delightful evening at New Rivers, savoring a multi-course special menu along with Dick and Dorothy and we wondering what they had in store for this year. The word we got from Elizabeth and Beau is that it will be even more of a special evening this year.
We can't wait. . .
For starters Susie chose a simple (and simply delicious) Romaine salad and I tucked into Narragansett Bay scallops with Beau Vestal's own smokey bacon -- needless to say the evening was off to a great start.
I couldn't resist the steak with a root vegetable barley and incredibly scrumptious fresh mushrooms, while Susie settled on the Rhode Island fluke with fingerling potatoes and pickled peppers, which she thought tassty in the extreme (and Susie hates anything pickled).
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| yep, those are homemade onion rings |
We closed out the evening relaxing over a 20-year Tawny for me and Marie Brizzard over ice for the French Tarte.
Before we scooted out we stuck our heads in the kitchen to say hi and thanks to Beau and asked about their plans for New Year's -- last year we spent a delightful evening at New Rivers, savoring a multi-course special menu along with Dick and Dorothy and we wondering what they had in store for this year. The word we got from Elizabeth and Beau is that it will be even more of a special evening this year.
We can't wait. . .
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