The final birthday party
Mar. 29th, 2016 11:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylAnother day spent in the kitchen preparing for the last of the birthday parties. Today's focus was on making apple sauce — the carnivores were having marinaded pork — and stewing up a batch of Greek fava. Using a mandoline we julienned a couple of kilos of celeriac — something a friend had tried by hand, only to discover it took them four hours to complete — ready to make Henry Dimbleby and Jane Baxter's truly superb celery and celeric gratin — a dish which proved to be the absolute star of the evening.
The guests — a few of my dad's fellow emeriti and a couple of other old friends — arrived bearing gifts and, in one case, delicious homemade beetroot humus. We had a lovely supper, during which everyone who'd retired said how pleased they were to be out of the politics and infighting of academia.
More helping out in the kitchen during the evening to set up the rhubarb fools, followed by a relatively early retreat to bed, leaving the oldies to their partying...
The guests — a few of my dad's fellow emeriti and a couple of other old friends — arrived bearing gifts and, in one case, delicious homemade beetroot humus. We had a lovely supper, during which everyone who'd retired said how pleased they were to be out of the politics and infighting of academia.
More helping out in the kitchen during the evening to set up the rhubarb fools, followed by a relatively early retreat to bed, leaving the oldies to their partying...
