Happy New Year!

I know you are all waiting with bated breath wondering what it is that Boobarella & Chef did for New Year's Eve. Well, wait no longer! Chef spent two days making his highly praised and always delicious cassoulet. We brought it, along with some wonderful homemade pumpernickel over to our friends Jenn & Mark's home for a night of good food and good fun with good friends.

We enjoyed dinner with a couple of bottles of wine from the N.H.L. Signature Wine Series. A bottle of Bobby Hull Chardonnay and Tony Esposito Cabernet to be exact. The Cabernet was meaty and a nice accompaniment to the cassoulet and the Chardonnay tasted not like the inside of Gordy Howe's socks, but had a good buttery flavor with a citrus aftertaste.

I had asked Jenn for the bottles so I could take a picture of the labels (they were signed) and read what was on the back of the bottle. But this morning when I woke from my drunken haze I found something else all together in my bag. . .

While my brother suspects the mischievous specter of our grandmother was at work, none of my pictures are tilted in her usual manor and all of my salad dressing is still well within the range of edible. So that leaves one of three possibilities: 1) Jenn has no idea what to do with acorn squash and has decided to let Chef give it a try, 2) these were Chef's prizes for winning the card game (that Jenn & I totally had in the bag until Chef & Mark cheated somehow that I believe involved grape vodka - and they laughed at me for taking my cards with me to the loo) or 3) the bottles were in my bag, but they turned in to gourds when the clock struck midnight.