… Joe here. I had the band over (along with Jacob - our mixmaster - and Sarah and Gregg, two other good friends of mine), for a dinner party last night. I brought back some “liquid souvenirs” from that trip I took to Italy in September, including a bottle of a Tocai Friulano that I’d tasted at a wine festival in Florence. For me, good food, good drink, and good friends is about as good as it gets.

Among the dishes, I made an asparagus bisque, which sort of turned into a dip because it was so thick. However, much like in songwriting or performing, every so often you make a mistake and it winds up being better than what you’d intended to do in the first place. Spread on bread, with a little burrata cheese on top, the “dip” was out of this world, and very good with the Tocai! Everybody contributed to the festivities, with Sarah and Gregg brought a bottle of Shiraz to go with the main course I cooked (sherry chicken stuffed with spinach, mushrooms & carrots, and wild mushroom risotto), as well as extra dishes and silverware so no one had to eat out my pots and pans, Grace and Whits made a tasty salad, even if it unexpectedly contained dill (which Grace decided smells like Christmas, but tastes like hell… why do you hate Christmas, Grace?!), and Jacob provided dessert in the form of prosciutto-wrapped, blue (bleu?) cheese-filled dates. Drool…

Just a lovely evening of cuisine and conversation, and yet another reminder of how lucky I am to make music with some of my best friends! We’ll have to do it again soon… though maybe at someone else’s apartment… what a monumental stack of dishes I have to clean!

-Professor of the Low-End

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