Personal Note: 今始まる

[nebroadwe]

This year my friends and I will be celebrating the Eighteenth Annual Easter Orphan Dinner, a tradition begun back in 1990 when four of us had nowhere to go for a home-cooked Easter meal, so we made one ourselves. We're now into our second generation of participants by blood and our who-knows-how-many-th generation of participants by affiliation -- new people join the throng every year as previous people graduate and move on. We have alumni who live near enough to come and other alumni who give Verizon's stock a boost by calling in and talking to everyone during the course of the evening. It's a potluck: the hosting venue provides a main meat and a starch (and the plates and such), while the guests bring the rest (everything from soda and chips to scampi and panna cotta). Cooking keeps me sane during Holy Week, so this year I'm making winter vegetables in a lemon marinade, a roasted red pepper terrine, a broccoli-and-corn casserole and -- if I can find the nectarines -- nectarine relish. Also the aforementioned panna cotta, a sugar-free fruit pie (probably strawberry, since they're what's on sale -- a little Chinese five-spice powder in your strawberry pie really gives it a lift, mmm), and a chocolate truffle cheesecake (so rich you gain a pound just smelling it). This is in addition to the veal-barley soup and pasta e fagioli I make for dinner following our Holy Thursday service (the leftover pasta e fagioli then becomes everyone's fast-break meal on Good Friday after the 3:00 service). It feels like I just bought enough leeks to keep Owain Glyndwr's army provisioned for a month. I also made a math error scaling up the pasta e fagioli and need to buy more beans and tomatoes and things. Thank heaven for garlic in a jar.

Must also get to work on this year's Triduum filk. The balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet has been requested ...

Comments

[nateprentice.livejournal.com]

diets suck.

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Can you get a dispensation for the day?

[nateprentice.livejournal.com]

Hey, you don't tell the boss, I won't either.

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Waitaminnit ... that's a different kettle of fish entirely. And I don't need any transactions of dubious ethicality on my soul at Easter. You apply to the boss for a dispensation. :-)

[nateprentice.livejournal.com]

Me?

I don't think so.

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Well, at least you'll be able to smell all the goodies.