Easter weekend
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ceebeegeeDoug and I had Easter dinner yesterday with my brother, his partner and his partner's family, up in Pelham. Doug and I met at Grand Central Station--I walked over there after church at St. Mary's which lived up to its sobriquet of Smokey Mary's. The incense was off the hook--it lay like a fog over the congregation. During one musical reverie between the penultimate and last verses of "Jesus Christ is Risen Today" the thurifer was walking down the aisle doing an "around the world" with the censer and looking very pleased with himself. Nobody can make a church service unnecessarily complicated like high church Episcopalians!
Doug and I got there a little past two and met Jared's family. The dinner was a little daunting--they kept bringing out platter after platter of food. I just can't eat all that. They started with pasta...tubes filled with ricotta and covered in marinara sauce, plus sausage and peppers, plus garlic bread and butter, plus some other side dish. After we ate all that, Doug and I assumed that was the end. Oh no. They brought out another huge platter of chicken, plus potatoes. I had no appetite left--I took a piece of chicken so as not to be rude picked it apart but couldn't eat any of it.
Saturday night Doug and I had dinner at Mike's--Mike and Tricia prepared this AMAZING dinner of baked stuffed shrimp that was unbelievable. I kept thinking about it all night--that meal will go down in history. She also made some sort of traditional Italian Easter dessert, kind of like a cheesecake, with ricotta, cherries and chocolate. We also watched the Jesus Christ Superstar DVD--I'd never seen JCSS before. Very interesting. ALW really does rip himself off--the score sounded so much like Evita. But the cinematography was great--it was filmed in Israel and the spare, sere beauty was breathtaking.
Doug and I got there a little past two and met Jared's family. The dinner was a little daunting--they kept bringing out platter after platter of food. I just can't eat all that. They started with pasta...tubes filled with ricotta and covered in marinara sauce, plus sausage and peppers, plus garlic bread and butter, plus some other side dish. After we ate all that, Doug and I assumed that was the end. Oh no. They brought out another huge platter of chicken, plus potatoes. I had no appetite left--I took a piece of chicken so as not to be rude picked it apart but couldn't eat any of it.
Saturday night Doug and I had dinner at Mike's--Mike and Tricia prepared this AMAZING dinner of baked stuffed shrimp that was unbelievable. I kept thinking about it all night--that meal will go down in history. She also made some sort of traditional Italian Easter dessert, kind of like a cheesecake, with ricotta, cherries and chocolate. We also watched the Jesus Christ Superstar DVD--I'd never seen JCSS before. Very interesting. ALW really does rip himself off--the score sounded so much like Evita. But the cinematography was great--it was filmed in Israel and the spare, sere beauty was breathtaking.
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Date: 2005-03-28 08:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-28 08:49 pm (UTC)It's so refreshing to talk to someone who's knowledgeable about religion, and have a discussion about the mechanics and complexities of religion and belief systems (as opposed to trying to proselytize or evangelize).
DAMN, that stuffing was good. I am STILL thinking about it!
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Date: 2005-03-28 08:57 pm (UTC)So, how about a nice Yankee pot roast sometime soon? Red meat -- that's my specialty.
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Date: 2005-03-28 09:27 pm (UTC)