First Dinner Guest

Gumbo

Fun time. We had our first guest over to our flat for dinner last week, a friend we made from our hill walking club. She and Beth have become particularly good friends. They correspond regularly and have enjoyed theater, museum, coffee, and dinner outings together.

To be sure, we have been out to dinner at restaurants with friends, and we have had dinner in the homes of a couple of those friends. We have also cooked dinner for friends from the US who have visited us. However, this was the first Scotland friend we have had over for dinner.

Mike wanted to share a regional US dish, so he made a big pot of Louisiana gumbo. He said it was as authentic as he could make it considering that not all of the ingredients were available (had to substitute a mild Cumberland sausage for the normal spicy Andouille sausage). "Ith do shàth!" (eat to your satisfaction in Gaelic).