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Two dinners.
Sep. 4th, 2005 09:29 pmLast night I met ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
therealjae's parents. They're in DC with therealjae for a political science conference, and her father invited minnaleigh and me to join them for dinner at the Mendocino Grill and Wine Bar in Georgetown.
Wow was it good. It was marvelous to see J, of course, for the first time since February. And her parents? Let's just say that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. It felt more like meeting friends of hers who just happen to be a generation older. I was a bit unnerved to hear that they'd heard a lot about me, especially given that they didn't specify what. Still, they made me feel very welcome. I had a great time.
Dinner was marvelous. I had a perfect oyster stew as an appetizer, followed by some seared red snapper with mint couscous, yellow wax beans, and heirloom tomato coulis. For dessert, molten chocolate cake with buttermilk vanilla ice cream. I felt compelled to get white wine with my dinner because of what I ordered, and had a nice pinot gris, but I was much more taken with the bottle of zinfandel J's father ordered with dessert. (Unfortunately, I was driving, so I only had about a third of a glass of the zin.)
therealjae took pictures of my food, but I imagine we'll have to wait for her to get back to Edmonton before she posts them.
Tonight saw a somewhat less successful, more private, equally momentous, and certainly cheaper dinner:
Alex's first taste of rice cereal. I intended to wait longer to start solids, but she's started intently watching every bite that someone else takes, to the point where I feel guilty about eating in front of her. Today we went out for dim sum after church. Alex slept through the meal, but woke while we were eating the sweet tapioca soup that comes as a dessert with every order. Her gaze was glued to my spoon as it went from bowl to mouth, bowl to mouth.
So when late afternoon came around, her hungriest time of day, I mixed up a little organic brown rice cereal with some formula. We tried a little by spoon and a little by fingertip. Altogether, I think she took in about half a teaspoon. She enjoyed the feeding process, but was less than thrilled by the cereal itself. This is obviously going to take some getting used to.
therealjae's parents. They're in DC with therealjae for a political science conference, and her father invited minnaleigh and me to join them for dinner at the Mendocino Grill and Wine Bar in Georgetown.Wow was it good. It was marvelous to see J, of course, for the first time since February. And her parents? Let's just say that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. It felt more like meeting friends of hers who just happen to be a generation older. I was a bit unnerved to hear that they'd heard a lot about me, especially given that they didn't specify what. Still, they made me feel very welcome. I had a great time.
Dinner was marvelous. I had a perfect oyster stew as an appetizer, followed by some seared red snapper with mint couscous, yellow wax beans, and heirloom tomato coulis. For dessert, molten chocolate cake with buttermilk vanilla ice cream. I felt compelled to get white wine with my dinner because of what I ordered, and had a nice pinot gris, but I was much more taken with the bottle of zinfandel J's father ordered with dessert. (Unfortunately, I was driving, so I only had about a third of a glass of the zin.)
therealjae took pictures of my food, but I imagine we'll have to wait for her to get back to Edmonton before she posts them.Tonight saw a somewhat less successful, more private, equally momentous, and certainly cheaper dinner:
Alex's first taste of rice cereal. I intended to wait longer to start solids, but she's started intently watching every bite that someone else takes, to the point where I feel guilty about eating in front of her. Today we went out for dim sum after church. Alex slept through the meal, but woke while we were eating the sweet tapioca soup that comes as a dessert with every order. Her gaze was glued to my spoon as it went from bowl to mouth, bowl to mouth.
So when late afternoon came around, her hungriest time of day, I mixed up a little organic brown rice cereal with some formula. We tried a little by spoon and a little by fingertip. Altogether, I think she took in about half a teaspoon. She enjoyed the feeding process, but was less than thrilled by the cereal itself. This is obviously going to take some getting used to.
