There were 8 of us who got together Saturday Jan 05 to celebrate The Great 2013 Three Year Hip Replacement Ordeal Memorial Backgammon Tournament And New Year Celebration.

Sue and I battled it out for counter space for awhile before folks started to arrive to get a jump on food prep so that we could actually play some backgammon. Tony was the first to arrive and he and I sat down and played a couple of games while Sue finished up some things she was working on.

For snacks, Sue made a cream cheese, chive, and pepper jelly marmalade dip, and then a super good batch of Limoncello infused iced cupcakes for desert. For dinner, I fixed a highly doctored version of a Sicillian caponata: I used garlic and thyme sauted zucchini instead of the standard eggplant (mostly because I don't really care that much for eggplant), and mixed that in with some chicken initially stir fried with some onion, garlic, and oragano. There was also sherry and some white wine in there along with a few other things. And it turned out just great!

The movie of the night was the 1993 Cliffhanger.

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