We've been trying to get this one couple over for dinner for about six months now, and our schedules keep not lining up. So we finally got everyone to agree on Sunday dinner today, so Paul and I are now frantically cooking and cleaning before they get here.
I decided to make a really good dinner to ensure they'll come back, so the menu (though not particularly difficult) is pretty tempting: Garlic-stuffed pot roast with mushroom gravy, skin-on yukon gold mashed potatoes, buttered peas-n-onions, pearsauce (just like applesauce, but with pears) and peach crisp for dessert.
It's also a pretty local meal: the pearsauce comes from the Sizer family's pear tree, the peaches were overripe early clingstones from the farmer's market (honey-sweet but not very complex in flavor, so I kind of had to back off on the spices a bit so that some peach flavor will came through), the garlic is from Neighbor Nora's garden, and the pot roast is from our recent "Meat Harvest" -- we split a 1/8 beef share with another couple here in town and this is our first road test of the critter. Here's hoping he was a good steer.
Yay food. I love cooking.
Posted by Janer