Marissa had badgered me a couple of days ago about having a dinner party sometime. She said she would particularly like me to fix Cornish Game Hens.

She just loves the recipe and process James Haller from the old Blue Strawberry restaurant wrote about in one of his cook books he autographed for me a long, long time ago.

Even though I love fixing them, I wasn't too sure about that as it was really getting hot out, and to have the oven going at 475 degrees is just not something I was looking forward to. But, of course, she insisted and who am I to be a party-pooper? It was on!

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Colin drove his new truck over so I could see it. Nice ride, dude....

Erin and Marissa. They had gotten together earlier today and I invited Erin over with Marissa for our dinner since she was in the area.

Marissa and Colin relaxing out on my deck in the terrific weather we had for the day.

Sue arrived after working a long day, and I promptly stuffed a glass of wine in her hand to soothe all the ills. Looks like it worked.

Didn't even get a picture of the table or anything else I was so busy cooking and having a grand time with everyone. Here's the crew heading out after dinner - all spreading out to do their thing. All are smiling so I have to assume they liked the food.