July 22nd - Brent and Derrick

Tonight the guests were Derrick Gable and Brenton Lanier Tippitt Culpepper (isn't his full name just fun?). I worked with Derrick at the Health District in Athens, and he is, of course, our highly generous and greatly appreciated webmaster. Brent is an undergrad at UGA, and one of Mike's former debaters. He was also our houseboy a few summers ago - and despite him catching me eating Reddi-Whip for breakfast, he was a model houseguest. Which partly explains why he decided after dinner tonight to stay the rest of the weekend... but that's ok. We love having him around. Besides, Kendra was back in Athens, so the guest room was free!

The menu for tonight consisted of fennel parmigiano salad; creamy fettucine; red snapper with parsley tomato crust; and Italian green beans. The website also listed Santa Maria salad, but I decided one salad was plenty and left that off the night's offerings. I really do need to pay more attention when I make the menus - sometimes they don't make much sense. The menu also called for a Chianti, but I actually bought a red table wine from Spain called Codice. The wine was on the simple side, but worked fine as a table wine that wouldn't overpower the snapper. Toward the end of the evening, Brent went down to the bar and brought up a bucket of Bud Light too, which I decided wasn't worthy of photographing. ;)

Derrick and I chatted and he filled me in on the highlights of my old workplace since I left at the end of last summer. He also brought a fantastic chocolate truffle cake from Big City Bread, a bakery in Athens. You can check them out on the web at http://www.bigcitybread.net/links.html. Yummy, yummy, yummy. Big City Bread was also the source of all of the fantastic tiramisu that repeatedly found its way to Cafe Davis last year - I highly recommend it.

After Derrick left, Brent, Mike and I went to the Dunwoody Tavern(www.dunwoodytavern.com) so that Mike and Brent could play darts. The Tavern is a little bar in a strip mall not far from our house that is surprisingly busy at all hours of the day. A guy who looked like Mr. Bean and his friend challenged Mike and Brent to a game of pseudo-cricket, while I played electronic Mah Jong at the bar. A good time was had by all.