Part of what makes this an excellent summer weekend is the pleasure of visits from good people. Saturday morning, Nancy Mosley (grad student from Wake Forest, Class of 2004) and her husband Mark and their son Parker stopped by for a much-overdue visit. Then, on Sunday, Tim Schwarz (WFU Grad 2007) brought in a crew from New Orleans: his girlfriend Andrea and co-worker Julia and her husband Chris. It will be a great few days having them here, as long as they can stand the fact that my primary focus is on what kind of good meal we can have next, as opposed to planning and executing some bodacious city excursions and such.
The evening meal once everybody had arrived: smothered pork chops with onion-thyme gravy, with company mashed potatoes and garden peas. For dessert: the secret recipe chocolate chip cookies that are a rough approximation of the
Doubletree special ones.
After dinner, things got fun. Fortunately, I left these activities to the young whippersnappers and contented myself with clean-up responsibilities. This is a game Andrea brought along as a gift to the Roediger House, inherited from her days at Indiana University.
Braised Smothered Pork Chops with Onion-Thyme Gravy from
Cook's Country [April/May 2011], p. 22-23.
1 comment:
you can't avoid the games forever ray jones!
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