A frabjous feast

This may have been my last frabjous feast for a long time. I can't imagine being able to pull this off with THREE little ones pulling on my legs! What a dinner to go out on, though. As GRITS would say, "It was delicious AND good!"

We started with a brie amandine en croute, eaten with pear and apple slices. The main dinner consisted of beef cooked in Venetian spices (and coffee and wine and chocolate in the sauce); the Uzbek carrots; scalloped potatoes in a cheesy, white wine sauce; a Romaine salad with oranges and pine nuts; and a honey-flaxseed challah. And then we had chocolate cake!

The mixy,not-so-matchy table.

My favorite plate, bowl and super-spicy, Uzbekistani carrots.

The mad cooker, working on her nearly-perfect sauce for scalloped potatoes.

"Challah!"