Happy New Year, 2008!
January 01, 2008
Last night Roger and I hosted our Fourth Annual New Year’s Eve Dinner Party. We started at 8:30 p.m., but should have begun so, so, so much earlier. Enough time with good friends is never enough.
We ate. (Menu for the evening: Chicken Saltimbocca, Warm Spinach Salad with Pine Nuts & Prosciutto, and Green Beans with Lemon-Ginger Butter. Dessert: Caramel Toffee Crunch Cheesecake and Chocolate-covered Oreo Truffles. My thighs are only slightly larger than yesterday, but that’s what we have New Year’s Resolutions for, right?)
We drank. (Roger made me a killer Cosmo. I tried to re-create it again for myself, from the same recipe, and it was a disaster. A vodka disaster. So I kept adding cranberry juice, to no avail. And that’s when I started pouring cherry juice into it. It wasn’t bad after the cherry juice -- of course, almost nothing can be bad after adding cherry juice -- but then again I don’t think it was a Cosmo after that, either.)
We were merry. (For Christmas, Roger gave me a digital camcorder. If only I could figure out how to upload and edit videos, you could be merry with us. The laughter, the cigars, the food, the games (a new fave: Loaded Questions). I hope your New Year’s Eve celebration was every bit as lively and fun as ours.)
And to you, a toast to you, Internet (with the cherry-infused Cosmo that I made myself, rimmed in yellow and red sugars):
May this new year bring you closer to those you love; may this new year give you all of the good things and only enough of the rest to remind you how good things really are.
Comments
Looks like it was a good time! :)
Happy 2008 to you!
Posted by: Zandria | January 1, 2008 07:49 PM
Happy new year to you too!
I haven't really done anything to celebrate on New Years' Eve for the last two years, but your party looks fun! Remind me of this in about 11 months so that maybe I'll get off my butt and do something!
Posted by: -R- | January 1, 2008 09:49 PM
Happy new year!
Posted by: Giselle | January 1, 2008 11:58 PM
Mmm, what a tasty looking cocktail.
Happy New Year!
Posted by: Assertagirl | January 2, 2008 08:32 AM
Have a fabulous 2008!
Posted by: witchypoo | January 3, 2008 12:20 AM
That menu is making my mouth water, and I don't usually eat chicken this early in the morning. Cheesecake, though - that I could handle right about now.
Happy New Year, Jes!
Posted by: Lia | January 3, 2008 07:38 AM
You look totally skinny in that middle picture. Are you shrinking away??? Come back Jes, come back!
P.S. I have to admit, the sugars rimming your "drink" are kinda scary looking...
Posted by: beyonka | January 3, 2008 01:39 PM
Did I rememeber to say thanks 1000 times for the wonderful evening? If not, I say THANKS!
Did I also mention that I ate 3/4ths of those truffles you made me that same day we went to brunch? Oh.my.word. Those things were sinful and I can't wait until next New Year's Eve to do it all again this year and hopefully by then you will have a new house. My offer still stands if you need to move in with me while you house hunt. 500 a month for rent, all expenses paid, I mean, you can't beat that can you? And you can store most of your stuff in my garage, if not all of it... so no need to pay for a storage.
Posted by: eddo | January 3, 2008 02:51 PM
Mmmm....cherry juice and vodka! Now, while not a Cosmo, it looks awfully good. Good friends and good drinks = awesome times! Happy 2008!
Posted by: Maya | January 3, 2008 06:37 PM
Happy New Year and I hope 2008 is a great year for you!
We do the same thing as you did on New Year's Eve - celebrate with a small group of friends and have a dinner party. It's the best!
Posted by: Mauigirl | January 5, 2008 05:34 PM
Happy New Year!!! I LOVE Loaded Questions and the last time I played it was at a New Year's party 6 years ago. Glad you guys had fun! I really like your nose ring. :)
Posted by: Maggie | January 6, 2008 06:08 AM
Oh Jes, Happy New Year to you too - you look abfab! I've always wanted to do something on New Years, you may have inspired me to have a party next year....do you have links to the other recipes or are they top secret?
Posted by: cpa mom | January 10, 2008 11:59 AM