We gathered around our table for Thursday Night Dinner, which is a weekly occurrence at our house. We have a 
fairly regular group around the table, along with others who come occasionally, to eat and talk and laugh and be friends. For me, it is a chance to go exploring the culinary landscape to see what I can find. Tonight, the menu was:
Strawberry salad with mixed greens, cheddar cheese, and fried green beans
Roasted chicken with a orange-coffee sauce over cocoa pasta
Guinness gingerbread with passion fruit mousse
The menu came about because of a cookbook
I love cooking good food. I love getting to use my imagination in the kitchen. Yet what I love most of all is eating 
together around the table: laughing, talking, telling stories, being friends. The food is fuel for something far more significant. We are changing the world on Thursday nights. I love it.
I just need to figure out how to get a bigger table. And a bigger kitchen.
Peace,
Milton
Not to mention, how to provide people with the ability to travel instantaneously to your house while stopping time completely at their OWN homes & in their OWN villages, so that they may join your table for hours & hours & hours & somehow still make it home in time for dinner (lol) …
I have never in my life wanted someone to be my next-door neighbor more than YOU … Have you thought of moving to Atlanta?!?!?
Miss you, Milt — but especially I miss cooking with you. . .
Hope all is well,
Mitch
Mitch,
I would love for you to be both in the kitchen and at the table.
You make me soooo hungry 🙂
Milton, do you know of the Smitten Kitchen blog? Her “claim to fame” is that she does the cooking from her tiny NYC apt. kitchen. Somehow I think size of kitchen does not limit you very much!!! These sound wonderful. Hope the recipes are in your file as I have old, dear friends coming for lunch next Friday.
Leah,
I’ll put recipes up in the next couple of days.
Peace
Milton