Saturday, August 09, 2014

Indoor Picnic with Liz

Sunday 27 July
Today we had planned to go out with our friend Liz to Washington Park to hear the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra's free "Back to the 1780s" concert.  But the weather websites were making dire predictions: 100% chance of thunderstorms, especially at 4-6 PM, when the concert was about to start.  So we decided to give up and have an indoor picnic at our house.
(Just to show how reliable weather websites are, the skies were only partly cloudy at 4, and the sun even peeked out soon after; the concert went off without a hitch.  You suck, weather channel.)
Anyway, the food was still excellent.  We made up a pair of salads for bagels: classic whitefish with red onion and mayo, and crab salad with scallion, red pepper dice, and mayo.  There was also Dave's watermelon and feta salad, and oodles of cold caponata that Holt made up yesterday.
Liz provided dessert, i.e. peaches and raspberries seasoned with cardamom, and topped with crème fraîche and cinnamon sugar.  And truly, it was peachy.

We had a lovely evening, though it could have used some Mozart.

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