Boron wrote:

> Tomorrow we will be having:
>
> Ribs
> Fresh fruit salad
> Home made Mac and Cheese
> Garlic bread
> Cole slaw
> Crudite platter with a Ranch Dressing Dip
>
> Dessert is chocolate chip cookies and 3 kinds of home made ice cream
>
> Deep, dark chocolate with almonds (made with a mix of bittersweet
> chocolates from Trader Joe's and Cote d'Or Brut (86% cacao).
>
> Vanilla, with Penzey's Vanilla beans
>
> Brown sugar Ice Cream with Poppycock "Just the Nuts" added in...sort
> of a Praline taste to it

Sounds very good, and I hope you have a wonderful holiday! I'm serving
pretty much what I posted earlier:

Assorted olives

Peel-and-eat shrimp with
cocktail sauce
calypso sauce
sour-cream-and-dill sauce
mango-habañero-curry sauce

Buffalo-burgers stuffed with blue cheese

Margarita (lime-orange-tequila) chicken

Grilled Louisiana hot links

"Potato Goop" (herb-garlic) kebabs with:
catsup
sun-dried tomato mayo
red-wine vinegar
sour-cream-and-dill sauce

Caprese (tomato-mozzarella-basil) Salad

Jude's cold Avocado-Edamame Soup (Thanks, Jude!)

Pasta Salad with:
Italian green beans
half-dried halved grape tomatoes
pine nuts
balsamic vinaigrette

Fruit Platter with
bananas
fresh pineapple chunks
fresh mango slices
fresh carambola (starfruit) slices
halved strawberries

LadyJane's Pavlova (Thanks, LadyJane!) with:
Grand Marnier whipped cream
the fruit listed above

Memorial Day is set aside to remember and honor those who have died while
serving in the U.S. armed forces. I consider myself fortunate that I spent
fourteen years in the Navy through the 1980's and 1990's, including three
tours to the Persian Gulf (which became known as the "Arabian Gulf" for
political reasons during my service), and NONE of my shipmates died. So I
honor those who have died in service to my country, but the holiday isn't as
personal for me as it could be -- and I'm glad for that.

(But even though I'm no longer on active duty, I'm still in a military
environment: After I finish feeding my fourteen guests, I'll be waddling off
to work a twelve-hour shift as contractor support of ongoing combat
operations.)

Bob