New Year's Eve at Sandi's

We celebrated New Year's Eve 2015 at Sandi's house. As usual, Sandi cooked up a storm. This woman can't cook for 4,6 or 8 people. She is not capable of it. She always has to cook for an army. In this case, there were only 5 of us.

After an array of hors d'oeuvres, we were all summoned to the dinner table which was beautifully set, and I thought I was the only one that could set a table! We started with a salad. Her salad is no simple salad. She had peas, tomatoes, round red peppers that looked and tasted like mini apples, beets, pomegranates, red onions on romaine and arugula leafy greens. The dressing was not store bought....God forbid. She made her wonderful dressing with just olive oil, lemon and crushed garlic. She always gives everyone a big serving except for herself. I was almost full after the salad.

The main entrée was pork tenderloin stuffed with Brie cheese with a sauce made with cherries. It was wonderful! She served this with mashed potatoes. Normal people would have had 1 vegetable to go with this especially since we had a big serving of salad. Remember, this is Sandi....she had peas with butter and butternut squash cooked with bacon. She didn't think we would reach the recommended daily intake of vitamins so she also had to make Brussels sprouts cooked in molasses and pomegranate seeds. The food almost didn't fit in the plates. Next time I will have to give her a set of serving platters for her place settings. Everything was delicious.

She baked a country apple pie for dessert. She served that with a flair; decorated with a bit of chocolate and vanilla ice cream on top. At the end of the meal, we all were exhausted from eating.

One thing, you don't go home hungry when you eat at Sandi's. I guess it was a nice way to end the year....on a full stomach!