Right now I am in the final day of prepping for our annual end of year gathering. Mom and SD are here from VA and are out today visiting SD's daughters and grandkids.
I am in the final throws of prepping. Still need to make port reduction sauce for the duck, vol-au-vent cases for smoked salmon and creme fraiche.
Here is the breakfast Coffee Cake
Cooling is my pithivier.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Whoopie pies are assembled.
The lobster salad is made for the appetizers atop buttered gridded challah.
There are marinated olives in fennel orange and lemon.
My vacuum machine arrived Friday and I will be setting up the duck breasts soon in their little pouches for their bath in 56C water.
There is still celeriac and potatoes to peel, leeks to clean, and raclette to grate for the gratin. The playlist on the ipod is ready. Sparkly things are chilling, bottles of red stuff are breathing, Now I just have to figure out how to get 8 people around the table and then 4 of our friends from the lake will be coming down from their winter homes in Somerville and NH and we will all reminisce about warm days and lazy cocktail cruises. I hope you are all similarly ensconced in wining and dining with friends and family.
Later we'll talk about the newbook my wonderful Brother in Law sent me for Christmas...I can't wait.
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