Taking
a short break from blogging about our busy September 2015 trips to Florida, South Carolina and
North Carolina, this posting focuses on guests and dining at our home in East
Tennessee…
Half of
our little wine tasting group was scattered around the country when it was our turn
to play host in January. So Laurie and I
decided to up the ante a bit and just have a dinner party with lots of wine on
the side… From left to right are Dick and his wife Susan, Irv and his wife
Martha and my better half, Laurie.
As you
can see we just had a “light dinner”! We
always overfeed so I always end up with a lot of lunch and sometimes even dinner
leftovers!
We had started out our little soiree with mixed nuts, M&M’s, shrimp with cocktail
sauce, Boursin cheese and crackers.
Susan brought the shrimp plate and a terrific salad with broccoli, cauliflower, bacon, raisins and onions with a nice homemade salad dressing. Laurie breaded a pile of chicken breasts and thighs
with Italian breadcrumbs and other spices and then baked them. They were accompanied by 2 bowls of seasoned roasted red
potatoes, gravy and a big basket of crusty dinner and rosemary sea salt rolls with butter.
Martha
is our “go to” dessert queen! She
certainly didn’t let us down. The photo above is is a
slice of her raspberry freezer pie with a graham cracker crust. It was amazingly good and it was a great way to top off an
evening of food, wine and conversation!
We have
had other visitors in recent days… These local whitetail deer stopped by to
trim Laurie’s drift rose bushes in the front yard.
One of the does is keeping an eye on Laurie’s photo taking efforts.
Then
they decided to help us with our pruning up close to the house. One worked on this Loropetalum bush and the other spent
her time trimming up our ‘monkey grass’.
One of
our 4-legged dinner guests looked back to see if she and her fellow diners were
still welcome. Most of our plantings have
never been hurt by our local deer population, except for the hostas which take
a beating every year but keep on coming back to serve as a nice brunch when
needed. We do enjoy our most frequent locals…deer
and wild turkey alike.
Just
click on any of the photos to enlarge them…
Thanks
for stopping by for a bite to eat!
Take
Care, Big Daddy Dave
Looks like the best kind of parties - good friends, lots of great food and plenty of wine. As far as your "gate crashers" in the yard, they are hard to get rid of. When I used to see them in our yard, I ran out and made noises to run them off - to no avail I might add - but was a total waste of breathe.
ReplyDeleteSam
Looks like a good time was had and hate we missed it. I like having the deer do a little pruning but sometimes they don't know when to quit - they take my cousins shrubs to the ground up in WV.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a fun time for all with great food and wine. Did you share that meal with your 4-legged friends?????
ReplyDeleteHugs,
Betsy
I love this pic of you all!
ReplyDeleteAnd love yours visitors, what beauty and cute they are !