$1000 Dinner

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8. We scheduled it three weeks ago

and there are people who could not make it (thank goodness; 14 is my limit). Those who have been to previous dinners will *always* cancel other plans, which is the nicest compliment in the world. In fact, two of them (both men) called a while ago and asked if it wasn't time for us to have another dinner.

Today I *think* I finished all the shopping. Lots of flowers plus a potted palm to replace the dead one, all the perishables. I made the first, dark chocolate layer of the mousse cake, cut the cod into serving pieces and froze the scraps, cut the rind off the brie and rewrapped it, and started cutting up the root vegetables for roasting. I am cheating with the salad; I bought a couple of bags of cut-uo and washed romaine and a box of washed baby lettuces. I'll cut up the rest of the salad vegetables this afternoon. I have to wait for the dishwasher to finish this load so I can get going on the pastry cream for the Paris-Brest. I need to make the other two layers of the mousse cake this afternoon, too, but I'm using the dw as an excuse to sit down and read DU for a bit.