Sunday, February 26, 2006 | by nathan

Family Dinner

Another successful family dinner.

I got to mom’s late because I was having a bitch of a time getting myself together - losing my wallet and such. But when I got there it was just mom and Laurie, who were getting started on a bottle of Fat Bastard Chardonnay. My wine of choice: Red Truck Chardonnay, which is a wonderful wine - you should try it. That recommendation comes courtesy of Ty, the wine guy at Byron’s Liquor Warehouse.

Mom went all out with dinner. She had found this recipe for a kind of sweet chicken salad in "Food and Wine" magazine, which she had the brilliant idea of wrapping in a pastry to make a kind of pie. It was delicious. Alongside that was asparagus soup and a chocolate pudding pastry with strawberries on top, and iced tea. I mean, I ask you: do I have the best mom ever?

It was delicious; I’m glad I went first in making family dinner, because there is no way to follow this. Good luck to John and Crystal, though.

We watched Drop Dead Gorgeous, which I knew mom would love. General revelry ensued. John and Crystal bought a record player at the thrift store yesterday which they brought over, and mom busted out her box of old 33’s. I almost gave birth when I realized she had an original vinyl copy of Tapestry by Carole King, and was very, very disappointed when we realized that the new $5 record player had no needle. But mom let me have the record, and I almost peed my pants out of love for her. 

Jaye missed out because he had to study but we made a plate for him. Lately I am very, very in love with my family. My half-sister Valerie is coming down next weekend and I am looking forward to taking her and Tom out to lunch and showing them my house. They bought us a $50 Pier One gift card for Christmas, so they are getting the VIP tour.

Tomorrow night is Coldplay in concert, and Brian and I are having dinner at Cafe Nova, which I hope you will all get to see for yourselves soon. But we are still working on that.