Tonight the Roediger House enjoyed a long-overdue visit from a simply amazing family, long-time friends, former college roommate, very dear people: Jimmy and Julie Randolph and their sons Jay and Hunter. I'd had a chance to catch up with Jimmy a couple of times over the last two or three years, but it had been a mighty long time since I'd seen Julie, Jay, and Hunter. They got here mid-afternoon and stayed through my typical late dinner hour, and it wasn't quite long enough.
We talked and talked, catching up on ourselves and those around us. We enjoyed creamy stuffed eggs and pimento cheese to hold off the hunger. The boys watched Thor in 3D on the plasma TV upstairs. The whole crew of us played an extended game of Two Bounce with the new basketball goal. The boys did a sampling party of the strange sodas that had been accumulating in the wetbar area (and they soundly rejected the fermented pineapple soda, as they well should have).
I served up one of the RoHo standards for our supper: pork tenderloin medallions in a ginger-soy-shiitake mushroom cream sauce; layered green bean casserole; company mashed potatoes; some honey wheat bread from the bread machine. I even made sweet tea (not nearly as good as the tea Jimmy makes). Dessert was a delicious red velvet cake (to be blogged about at a later time).
It was great seeing them. Damn, I'm old. And short. But how do you like my new glasses?
"Pan-Seared Tuna with Ginger-Shiitake Cream Sauce," from The Bon Appétit Cookbook by Barbara Fairchild, 2006, p. 398-399.
"Layered Green Bean Casserole," from my sister Allison in Rossville, Indiana.
"Company Mashed Potatoes," a Jones family favorite.
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