A Night Out With My Darling.

Last night Needles and I went out to celebrate our anniversary. We will be together 12 years tomorrow. After a long interesting day of work I left to meet Needles at her work. We were a bit early so we went to Big Lots to spend a couple of Needles gift cards she had been holding on to for a couple years. We picked up some exciting items with it being our anniversary and all. We got floor mats for the bathroom since we have needed some for a few months now. We also picked up a dish dryer mat. Yep some exciting stuff. To kill time we wandered around the furniture and we both plopped down in a chair and a half. It was quit comfy until time to get up. It was a bit of a struggle to get out of the thing. We arrived at the Fine Dining Friday put on by the Culinary Arts students at Needles work. We were seated at a small table tucked away in the corner which was nice for us to have a bit of privacy from the rest of the people in the room. The room was nicely lite with small shelves which reminded me of sea shells inset into the walls with white orchids in vases. Our table just large enough for 2 with a white table cloth. Silverware was in place with a large green napkin shaped like a tee pee at each setting. The centerpiece was a white vase and a single plastic rose. On our table was a Johnny cake with butter already served. I'm from the South and it looked like fritter bread to me. Our first course was New England clam chowder with a large crouton and sprinkles of shredded beacon. It was very good and the clams and potatoes were diced so there wasn't large chunks. The second course was a salad of sweet baby lettuce with carrot, sliced nuts, dried cranberries topped with a apple cider vinaigrette and sliced pear on the side. The salad had a very interesting flavor which cleansed the pallet from the chowder in preparation of the main course. We had a choice of prime rib or salmon fillet. I chose the prime rib. The steak had a bowl type pastry set atop of it with a creamy horseradish sauce. On the side was Col cannon potatoes which is mashed potatoes with steamed sweet cabbage mixed in. also on the side was steamed green beans. After the main course came the desert. It was peach/blackberry crumble Ala mode served in a ramekins. It was very good reminding me of my mothers peach and blackberry cobbler mixed together. I think we were the first ones to finish so we returned home to change into our lounge clothes and digest our wonderful meal. Thank you Needles for our anniversary dinner. It was a very nice evening out.