dinner for dee
Rather tired, and functioning (barely) on only a few hours of sleep, having been up with a feverish W for much of last night. This morning I taught a class at the Cookbook Company, for which a camera crew was in attendance (I’ll explain that later) – afterward we did a bunch of taping, and dinner was a potluck in honour of one of Calgary’s best-known food writers, the outspoken and illustrious dee Hobsbawn-Smith, who is packing up in July and moving herself out to a farm in Saskatchewan. It was a goodbye party of sorts.
Tony Marshall from Highwood Crossing made brisket.
Karen brought trout on a bed of arugula, scattered with grape tomatoes.
dee brought lentils. Despite my legume overload of late, I enjoyed them.
There were salads, and scalloped potatoes, and bread. I made marinated asparagus.
And dee made buckle. We globbed great quantities of Vital Green Farms cream on top – at 52%, it’s as close to double or clotted cream as we can get in Alberta. It’s the stuff dreams are made of.
Good luck dee – Calgary will miss you. So long, and thanks for all the food.
May 30 2010 10:06 pm | leftovers
A Canadian Foodie on 31 May 2010 at 5:31 am #
What a beautiful meal, tribute, and “I don’t know how you did it” kind of day.
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Valerie
Kathy on 31 May 2010 at 7:54 am #
The food looks awesome. Wishing dee the best of luck. Now I have “So long, and thanks for all the fish” from Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy” running through my brain!
Julie–get some rest! But first, can you send some of your seemingly limitless energy my way?
JulieVR on 31 May 2010 at 8:09 am #
Rest? I wish! I have a book manuscript due tomorrow! and about a dozen stories. And a CBC show tomorrow. And we’re starting a food bank project today too…
thepinkpeppercorn on 31 May 2010 at 8:53 am #
Good luck to dee indeed! I was just looking through her shop’s of Calgary book yesterday, and thinking I haven’t seen too many articles from her of late.
And that Vital Green Farms 52% is ridiculously awesome!!
Beverley M on 31 May 2010 at 2:28 pm #
This has nothing to do with anything but I just heard of Wordle and it’s kind of neat. It takes your blog (or whatever) and the more a word is used the bigger it gets, I guess. I gave it this blog to try it out and here are the results: http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/2111739/DinnerWithJulie
I was amused that the biggest words, when rearranged to make sense are “even just one bean”
D'Schelz Oriah on 16 Jun 2010 at 11:40 pm #
Brisket looks dry but good luck to Dee.