A lovely place setting (accented by a bowlful of Florida Honey Bell tangelos), a bleu cheese gratin for four hungry persons, stellar blanched green beans with kumquat butter (sheer genius), tofu steaks with a rich mushroom-sage-cream gravy, sauteed chopped collards with sesame oil and soy sauce and fresh minced ginger...finished with my chocolate "rabbit droppings" cake filled with Nutella and frosted with a delectable mocha cream cheese frosting.
All accompanied by the girlfriend's excellent scotch sours. But it was not meant to be! For lo, an hour before the dinner, the girlfriend developed symptoms of stomach flu. I ate the food and was not sick, so it certainly was not the food - but a stomach bug! (Alas, she is still weak, and after two days of recovery, she is now able to take fruit, and tofu on toast.) Perhaps someday we will have a re-do, sans viral party crashers.
The frosting was the best part about the cake - I think next time, a dark chocolate sponge cake, or an exceptionally moist chocolate cake, would suit very well.
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