Last night we had our son and my wife's cousin over for dinner. Her
cousin is an actor living in a nearby town for the season. She thought
we should do a roast because the two of them are cooking for one these
days and should have a traditional dinner. She picked up a capon to
roast, and also roasted small potatoes and baby carrots, and boiled
green beans.

We had some nice pate and crackers and prosciutto and melon for
canapes. The appetizer was a simple salad topped with grilled shrimp.
Dessert was a fresh peach pie that I baked in the morning.

Everyone seemed to enjoy the dinner. I sure did. I am sure the cousin,
being well raised and extremely polite, will send a thank you note and
say how good everything was, whether he liked it or not. Our son called
this morning to say thanks and was full of praise. He said the capon was
amazing, the shrimps were outstanding, and that he he could not say
enough about the peach pie. He had forgotten his sunglasses here and
came by for them this afternoon and ate the last piece of pie.

On Sat, 20 Aug 2016 18:08:47 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

> Last night we had our son and my wife's cousin over for dinner. Her
> cousin is an actor living in a nearby town for the season. She thought
> we should do a roast because the two of them are cooking for one these
> days and should have a traditional dinner. She picked up a capon to
> roast, and also roasted small potatoes and baby carrots, and boiled
> green beans.
>
> We had some nice pate and crackers and prosciutto and melon for
> canapes. The appetizer was a simple salad topped with grilled shrimp.
> Dessert was a fresh peach pie that I baked in the morning.
>
> Everyone seemed to enjoy the dinner. I sure did. I am sure the cousin,
> being well raised and extremely polite, will send a thank you note and
> say how good everything was, whether he liked it or not. Our son called
> this morning to say thanks and was full of praise. He said the capon was
> amazing, the shrimps were outstanding, and that he he could not say
> enough about the peach pie. He had forgotten his sunglasses here and
> came by for them this afternoon and ate the last piece of pie.

Sounds wonderful!

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Sometimes I even put it in the food.

On 8/20/2016 6:08 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> Last night we had our son and my wife's cousin over for dinner. Her
> cousin is an actor living in a nearby town for the season. She thought
> we should do a roast because the two of them are cooking for one these
> days and should have a traditional dinner. She picked up a capon to
> roast, and also roasted small potatoes and baby carrots, and boiled
> green beans.
>
> We had some nice pate and crackers and prosciutto and melon for
> canapes. The appetizer was a simple salad topped with grilled shrimp.
> Dessert was a fresh peach pie that I baked in the morning.
>
> Everyone seemed to enjoy the dinner. I sure did. I am sure the cousin,
> being well raised and extremely polite, will send a thank you note and
> say how good everything was, whether he liked it or not. Our son called
> this morning to say thanks and was full of praise. He said the capon was
> amazing, the shrimps were outstanding, and that he he could not say
> enough about the peach pie. He had forgotten his sunglasses here and
> came by for them this afternoon and ate the last piece of pie.

Rarely see capon around here. Sounds good, especially the peach pie.