Just a quick update: yesterday's catering gig went very well. The dozen ladies were an easy bunch, especially after a couple of cocktails. They loved the food and the small portions of it. They liked the dessert, they liked the service, the clean-up, all of it.
I have to thank my friend Jill who came along and was my right-hand person, cleaning up, plating, serving, doing everything. Without her it would have been so much more work and so much less fun.
I did learn something: salt the food! I am not a big salt person, never have been unless it's on popcorn. Or steak. But as I was re-cooking the green beans yesterday, I kept tasting them and kept sprinkling salt and lemon juice on them and they were delicious! Same thing with the corn and the port-balsamic-shallot reduction: added more salt than I normally do and all were extremely tasty. It's a lesson to me, taste and add salt when needed. You would have thought I would know that by now, and I did but yesterday's experience made it a lot more clear.
And today is a total day off. The day opened cloudy and gray and cold, a perfect day to read and watch a movie on TV and walk the dogs. Had plans to do more adventurous stuff but put it off for another day. I think I just needed a quiet, down day.
Movie review(s) coming up.
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