6 people 2 days good wine

6 people 2 days good wine
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For over thirty years, with only a few exceptions, we have enjoyed bringing in the New Year with friends who used to live in Gibsons. Over the years we have alternated who hosts and this year it was our year to host them. Two years ago, we met another couple who are friends of theirs and when the suggestion was made that they might join us this year, we thought that was a great idea.

All of us love wine, particularly wine from BC. For two days we enjoyed converstions, introducing one another to new web resources, great food (at least four of us love to cook), and wine.

It is a great way to start the new year and despite the consumption of significant numbers of calories, we know we have this gathering to look forward to next year.

Happy New Year

Once again we rang in the New Year with our good friends the Waltons. This has been a tradition for almost 30 years and we have only missed a few years, once due to really bad weather (we celebrated a few months later), and a short string of years when they had moved to Montana.

The celebration this year started on the 30th. My chef son-in-law came over in the morning to give me a lesson in preparing seafood stuffed pasta (the dinner choice for that night) and also with the preparation of the carrot-ginger soup which we would have on New Year's Eve.

The main course for New Year's Eve dinner was a Mediterranean Pork Roulade. We enjoyed the stuffed pastas for dinner the night before and I got up early on the morning of the 31st to prepare the roast for cooking that evening. I realized after building the layers that I had placed them on the wrong side of the pork!

We went on a good long walk to build up our appetites. Pictured from the left, Lorne, Joan, Judy, and Duffy.

Once dinner was all though, we realized we had gone through a few good wines during our two dinner event.