New Year's Eve

Eastside Road, December 31, 2011

ODD-NUMBERED YEARS HERE; even-numbered years there: therefore, tonight we ate here, with the two dear old friends we've shared this evening with for more than forty years. The menu:

Martinis

brandade toasts • nuts • pickled carrots

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salade lyonnaise

duck breasts, purée of vegetables
dinner rolls

Syrah, Preston of Dry Creek, 2008


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tangerine ice with cookies and chocolate bark

Méthode Champenoise, Scharffenberger, nv