Monday, November 3, 2008

Book Group at Barbara's

Book Group was at Barbara's house. This time I got directions, so instead of taking an hour, I got there in about 14 minutes. Knowledge is power.
Her home is full of impressive artwork. This time I took few pictures of what she has on her walls and shelves since I have done that previously. BUT this time, she had a new man in her life who looked surprising like Don Quixote, at least the Don Quixote I know.
I have no information about him, so will get some to put here. Don't you love him? I have more pictures further on....
Cornbread. Those who wondered what type of Chinese food we would be eating were not disappointed to have a perfect fall meal.



A perfect fall candle table decoration.

A wonderful, stuffed acorn squash. Barbara bakes these for her vegetarian guest at Thanksgiving.
We ended the seasonal meal with a perfect apple crisp by the groups famous dessert maker, Doris Green.



We all were quiet and listened to Doris share her information about Nicole Mones, author of The Last Chinese Chef. I liked learning how she started writing for Ruth Reichl's Gourmet magazine after Ruth read some of her travel articles about China. I think I heard that correctly. Many years ago I led a discussion on two of Reichl's books AND served food from her books. This was before we hosted in pairs. Too much work.