The Cape Codders Come for Dinner

Halloween Eve

The Cape Codders

came for dinner

Three couples, who with us, shared a house for a week on Cape Cod

We haven't been all together since the Friday before we left Cape Cod

to come home

It was good to see them again.

And since it was fall . . . 

A fall tablecloth -- bronzy and gold

The blue and white china, of course.

White damask napkins in silver napkin rings, of course

A Halloween card as both place card

And menu card

The blue and white bowl filled with pumpkins and fall leaves

But we need flowers too -- mums from the garden in crystal rose bowls

Small sterling candlesticks -- 4 of them.

I like the simplicity of these low candleholders.

And before dinner

We gather in the living room for drinks and appetizer.

Cheese in the shape of pumpkins with a parsley leaf and a pretzel stem

And the table awaits

The menu?

Salad of roasted apple, roasted pecans, blue cheese and greens with a apple cider vinaigrette

Pork tenderloin with a cranberry balsamic sauce (there has to be one cranberry dish for the Cape Codders!), butternut squash risotto with saffron and a hasselback potato

Chocolate Mousse Torte with a small candy pumpkin which I made

Good food, good friends, a good evening . . .

And when everyone is gone . . . 

It's Thursday and I'm sharing my fall dinner party with Cuisine Kathleen for Let's Dish and with Susan at Between Naps On the Porch for Tablescape Thursday.