(this is the beautiful table Hana set for our Shabbat dinner party)
(here are Kenneth and Eva working in the kitchen)
After I got home and rejoined Kenneth and Eva in the kitchen things got much more hectic. As you will see from the pictures, it is not a large room and the presence of just one chef can fill it completely--much less three. It took a few false starts and a lot of creativity but everything was beautiful and delicious.
The Menu, complete with credits:
challah from the hidden bakery
big green salad, by Sam
potato pancakes, by me
sour cream from the Feel Box Grocery down the street
homemade Granny Smith applesauce, by Kenneth
two huge vegetable lasagnas with cream sauce, by Kenneth & Eva
sufganiot (doughnuts) with prune jam, by Eva
carrot cake, by Kenneth & Hana
wine, by Nir & Helle
We ate and ate and talked and talked until midnight. It was far and away the best dinner we've had at our house the entire time I've lived here, and we've had a few. Inviting guests over really helped me feel like part of my household for some reason; like the four of us as a group were having people over, like I belong somewhere. Having moved out of my own apartment in June and being nomadic for the past six months have made this feeling a little hard to come by.
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