Vot a Day

It's cold and nasty. We have guests coming for dinner tonight and I was a little lax about being organized but thought I could finish most of the prep this morning plus a little help from our housekeeper. Who called in sick this morning. I am usually quite easy about stuff like that but I was not a happy camper. Mainly of course because I had her scheduled to do some food shopping, put away a food delivery and put dinner in the oven. So the doorman gracefully put the food away for me and I thought Arnie when he came in from Nashville could help me cook. After all it's his great spare rib recipe. But the doorman put tonight's dinner in the freezer. and all those ribs are frozen solid.

plus I had a ridiculous work e-mail at 5:15 am which I totally ignored until I got to work and then mirabile dictu, it all worked out. But only because it's a slow day in the office. The whole week with Passover and then Easter has been very slow.

but dinner? With my new receipe for a black eye pea salad with lime, ginger and coriander. Seems like we'll be ordering Chinese food tonight.