Brunch with Louisa at The Blue Room, consisting of two and a half plates of food, with a sample of most of the desserts on offer. At least a bite of each of the following: pork ribs; Grecian green bean salad; scrambled eggs with tomato & feta cheese; beef brisket; bacon; fries; pork sausage; Moroccan spiced chicken; mesclun greens with corn vinaigrette; sweet plantains; salted watermelon; buttered cranberry-nut bread; hot salted shrimp; grilled salmon with chunky fennel vinaigrette; avocado quesadillas; lemon buttermilk pudding; Persian rice pudding; pineapple upside-down cake; lime tequila cheesecake; mango muffins; chocolate nut brownies; coconut macaroons. It really wasn't as much food as this list would have it seem. Also several glasses of water, and a glass of grapefruit juice.
Back at home, dinner was Chinese-style dumplings. We minced chicken breast, with shredded carrot and cabbage, egg, green onion, and ginger, and wrapped them in ready-to-wrap dumpling wrappers. We fried these in vegetable oil, and served them with a broth made from vegetable stock, orange juice, light soy sauce, green onions, Napa cabbage, and spices. I had six dumplings all told, I believe, and probably two cups of broth. Also many cans of diet cola throughout the evening, and one Corona. The evening was topped off with two brownies, made especially for the occasion by Jenna. Also two generic Ritz-style wheat crackers, sometime during the night during a bout of hankering sleeplessness.
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