Nice Kathy

When we got back to Cincinnati, Kathy took care of us. She had already got us tickets to the Takács Quartet* for that evening and brought over dinner and wine as well.
All picnic foods: there was a lovely little tomato and cuke salad, a chicken salad with green beans and avocado, and these amazing "spoon cookies," very labor-intensive, made with a beurre noisette, and then scooped with two spoons, as for quenelles. Two scoops are then glued flat side together with apricot jam. Delicious, slightly nutty, and need to be handled gently lest they fall to pieces, but worth the time: sort of like us and most of our friends.

*Mozart K. 421, Shostakovich no. 11, Debussy Op. 10 in g. I liked the Shostakovich more than I thought I would