Early Spring

Berkeley, March 3, 2011—

WE'RE SPENDING THE NIGHT at a friend's house, making it easier to see two nights of conserts by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Dancing always makes me hungry, and a trying drive down this afternoon left me out of sorts.

But Ann had prepared such a nice supper, we were soon ready for anything. We began with a pretty salad: sliced oranges, asparagus, and spinach leaves, in a raspberry vinaigrette.

Then a fettucine primavera: pasta with asparagus and peas-in-the-pod, a few spinach leaves for color, and lovely crisp prosciutto.
Dessert: raspberry sherbet with, of course, raspberries; and then on to the concert. A very enjoyable evening.

Chardonnay, Healdsburg Ranches, 2009