I have three good friends named Debbie here in Wimberley, and I ran into one of them - High School Deb - at the grocery store not long ago. When she said "My daughter Karly loves to cook, and we thought we'd do a little "Autumn Dinner" together on the 16th. Why don't you join us?", I had no idea what a magical evening was in store for me.
It's a funny thing about this Deb. We call each other "the-high-school-friend-I-didn't-know-in-high-school." Fortunately for us, though, the Jerseylicious Ms. Sarah Morgan knew us both. When she stumbled across my blog
and realized I was living in the same wee town as her best friend Deb, she hooked us up.
The first time Deb and I actually sat down together in Mima's (we'd probably seen each other there a hundred times before, but had no clue we'd gone to school together), she said "I've found your blog now, and you know that list of books that inspired you? I've read pretty much every one of those. You wanna talk about "living the good life"? Let me tell you about the time Tom and I took off for the forests of Idaho, built our own house from scratch, and started living off the land!" Since that day, we have enjoyed discovering one commonality after another.
Take last night, for instance. The "little get-together" turned out to be much larger than I was expecting - at least two dozen people, plus several babies. When Deb announced that we'd be eating outside, I thought she meant for us to just grab a spot on the porch somewhere, so I headed out there to set my drink down, before coming back to fill my plate from the sumptuous spread they had prepared for us. However, when I caught a glimpse of what actually awaited us there, I almost dropped my goblet! I ran back to the kitchen, shrieking "Oh My Gosh, Deb! Do you have any idea how long I've been dying to go to one of those Outstanding In The Field dinners?" "You too, huh?"
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Wow, I checked their site and the crew was here at Boggy Creek Farm just last week! Do share the menu from Deb and daughter's lovely event.
Yes, I saw that too, but the true reason I've never been to one isn't distance, it's price! I think they are running around $180.00 per head now, and I don't see how it could have been any lovelier than this one. Let's see, we started with a pastry-encrusted brie appetizer that had some golden raisins and something syrupy running through it. Then there was a lovely salad with dried fruit and bits of blue cheese in it. The main course was something like chicken pot pie, only it was topped with yummy herby biscuits. Oh, and there were tomato-cheese pies as well. They made four different desserts! Let's see if I can remember them all. There was trifle, some kind of cinnamony cakey thing with a praline icing drizzled over it, a pear tart, and a rustic apricot galette. Oh, and coffee and hot apple cider. Not bad, eh?
OMG, that sounds truly gourmet...a lovely setting, elegant food and perfect evening temperature. Another memorable mosaic in "living the good life." Thank you for sharing.
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