Grandpa's Birthday Dinner tonight! We love this household festival and look forward to it all year. Is it the good things to eat? The fun of decorating the table?
(Eve gave me buckets and buckets of flowers from her garden yesterday)
Or is it Grandpa's Eeyorish attitude towards his party that we are such suckers for . . . .
On the menu tonight:
Mushrooms stuffed with artichoke dip, lots of homemade French bread, a salad with purple lettuces and blackberries, prime rib, creamed spinach, roasted beets and potatoes, and apple-spice cake with apricot filling and cream cheese frosting, decorated with orange and yellow marigolds.
And coffee. And cards.
And birthday cards, presented in a festively decorated basket (can you say orange rickrack and sugar maple leaves? Good work, Clara!) and opened one at a time between courses.
What a WONDERFUL way(s) to say, "You are special"!!
ReplyDeleteWarm greetings,
Rhonda
I wish I had a family member who would cook me such a beautiful meal, seasoned with such love.
ReplyDeleteYour meal sounds divine and I'm sure Grandpa felt very blessed...despite his eeyore tendency!
I love your yearly tradition of honoring him... and teaching your children, by example, to love and honor their elders. Have a wonderful, beautiful, fun evening.
ReplyDeleteMy mother's birthday is this week-end and you've given me some great ideas. I'd planned on making an apple spice cake, and I think I will add the preserves to it, too.
ReplyDeletehow inspiring, and absolutely beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI truly hope you had a great time, which Im so sure you did!
Christina
Grandpa is indeed a blessed man! Always a pleasure to stop by Pleasant View.
ReplyDeleteOh my! What a delectable menu! And what a blessed Granpa to have such a loving family!
ReplyDeleteNice menu! I miss the food at home!
ReplyDeleteI adore cosmos. They look like spiky weeds and, just when you are ready to dig them up, they explode with pink blooms. Loveliness.
ReplyDeleteI can just feel the love from your family to Grandpa! What a nice tradition to honor him.
ReplyDeleteI could live on blackberries. Yum!
I see Giles popped in! I was wondering how he was doing. :o)
oh, oh what a menu. The creamed spinach has made me hungry, is there a recipe for that? Also the cake with the yummy cream cheese?
ReplyDeleteWhat a FABULOUS evening y'all have planned!! I'm sure that Grandpa has such a wonderful time surrounded by good food and the people he loves most- family!
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Mrs. U