March 4, 2012. Western Head, Nova Scotia. Dinner.

Every evening we eat dinner, at least most of the time.   It is a pleasant time, the dinner hour, with the glass of wine and the pleasant food and conversation making for a lovely end of the day.  But some dinners are especially pleasant.

Tonight, Betty and Vinal brought over dinner.  They brought the whole dinner, including wine, salad, main course and dessert.   Betty loves to cook and they both love our little home by the shore, so every so often, Betty cooks at her home, and we dine here at our home.  My only task is to set the table.

Betty especially enjoys cooking foods for us that we have never eaten before,  so tonight she prepared rabbit and hashed carrots.  Vinal snares the rabbits.  It was an interesting meal.   Betty simmers the rabbits, removes the meat from the bones, then pan fries and seasons the meat.  It was very tasty.   She always serves  hashed carrots with the rabbit.   It is cooked carrots and cooked potatoes, then mashed and seasoned.  It looks like a pale orange mashed potatoes, but it does not taste like either potatoes or carrots.   It was good.  And the tossed salad was tasty too, made with spinach.

One of the best part of the evening was the kitchen.  It was clean.   Betty and Vinal carried the food into the kitchen, put it into the oven, and it was done.  No pots to clean.   All we had to do was talk and eat.  It was a lovely dinner and a pleasant evening, all done by Betty and Vinal.