Dinner party with Justine, Gratian and their family as well as Chanaka’s family, (Chanaka, Nimalka and Stephan), Sri Lankan friends of J&G (visiting from Fresno and Sri Lanka).
An especially gracious hosting (we even left with tea from Sri Lanka given by both families, a fine Beringer wine and a few finger limes) of wine, food, conversation and lots of laughter (much needed in these plague years).
This ranks exceedingly high among our “most memorable” dinners. There were two broths, had stomach capacity for only one. The non-vegetarian broth worked exceedingly well for both meats (lamb highly marbled beef) and seafoods (scallops, abalone, fish paste). Veg and shrooms came after.
As usual, abalone, even in a great broth, and well cooked, was still reminiscent of erasers. However, did not stop me from having seconds. The experimentation continues. Lovely Beringer Merlot and Cab.
Was too engaged with the conversation to take pics of blueberry panna cotta, fruit and interesting Turkish drip coffee. Need to ask Gratian if that blend was made to be used as drip or only for the traditional type.
The smiling faces attest to the evening and the food. Impossible to capture the pleasure.
A delightful cultural item: More than once WE were thanked for coming! Yes, WE were thanked.
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