| Our menu? cold zucchini vichyssoise, a salad of pasta, pesto and peas and a garden fresh herbal scone with a pitcher of icy tea. The vichyssoise and the salad were both Ina Garten recipes (but I "fiddled" with the salad) Martha  |
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| Dessert was "strawberry cloud" -- a recipe of Gaida's that I renamed. Ricotta cheese and strawberry jam (my own) and cream whipped with powdered sugar all folded together. Topped with one of the last of my garden strawberries. A perfect dessert for a spring day! Martha  |
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| Lucky ladies! |
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| Geez...I need to start hanging with friends like you. My best friend serves hot dogs, then I have to cook it myself over the fire, lol. |
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| quote: Posted May 16, 2012 03:59 PM Hide Post
Dang, my invitation must have gotten lost in the mail! Looks lovely.
My sentiments exactly! Oh and also jealousy that you are eating outdoors so early in the season! Martha, on Tuesday we took our DGD out to lunch in her college town (Brunswick Maine) they were having a market so of course I had to stop at it and buy a few herbs and such. Didn't have time to completely shop the wonderful and complete selection one dealer had. Better believe I am headed back there soon! She had herbs I have never heard of before! |
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| Beautiful! I can almost feel the sun, and smell the herbs in that first photo. |
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| Martha, what a gorgeous setting for a luncheon..or any occasion. Years ago, one of our favorite restaurants was a Greek taverna in Old Town Alexandria, VA. We always asked to be seated in the grape arbor, which reminds me very much of your enchanting outdoor space. |
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| You are so lucky. Where I reside the bugs would have been all over us and my luncheon ala open aire! |
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| Lurah -- comes summer and bugs -- May (and often June) are fairly bugles on my part of the prairie. Right now there are loads of butterflies -- and we did have a wasp visit . . . but just one and he quickly moved on! Martha |
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Looks lovely.
