New Year's Day at Linderhof . . .

Even though we did stay awake until midnight,

we were up at our regular time

And ready for breakfast!

Once again in the breakfast room

Because Scott City is back in it's bins and those bins are back in the basement.

Since it was a holiday, we used our Spode Blue Italian

rather than our usual Johnson Brothers Indies for breakfast!

Since it was a "nice" dinner -- our New Year's Day Dinner

we chose to eat in the dining room

When it's just the two of us, I like to use lace placemats

My grandmother's china, Jim's grandmother's cutlery

Twenty-first century wine glasses!

The menu:

Roast of beef

Prime rib, slow roasted to perfection

served with roasted potatoes

And the world's best creamed spinach

From friend Vince who used to serve it at The Buffalo Grill 

Jim requested dessert:

Strawberry hazelnut pavlova roll

which was actually a

blackberry pecan pavlova roll

because when you live in a small town you often can't find hazelnuts

and

strawberries were $8.00 a box

and I wasn't going to spend $8.00 on tasteless winter strawberries

even though the recipe called for them.

And actually, it was quite good!

A slice of prime rib, some roasted potatoes and creamed spinach

with a nice bottle of red wine to wash it all down

And we filled the silver coffee pot and cream pitcher

For we were in the dining room and it just seemed proper

to pour from silver

when we ate our slice of pavlova roll!

And after, husband Jim retired to the living room and the sofa and football,

I did the dishes.

Later we watched a movie . . . 

Lavender Ladies

(I would recommend if you like Judi Dench and Maggie Smith -- it's a slow English movie)

And this afternoon I brought out three hyacinth vases with bulbs in them

It's my way to rush Spring!