Sunday Dinner

Yesterday Mary Beth announced that our friend Jon had told her we were "still on" for making dinner at his house tonight... oh dear... what to make?? I had no idea we were making dinner tonight! So Mary Beth and I ran to Kroger today and this is what we came up with:

Roast Chicken
-A whole chicken, a little celery, garlic, onion, sage, and salt- and a while in the oven. Perfect! Mary Beth did this, and she is amazing.

Garlic Mashed Potatoes
-A few red potatoes, and a lot of Yukon Gold potatoes, mashed up with garlic, half and half, salt & pepper... needed something else. The magic ingredient? Chicken broth!

Aparagus
-Tossed with a little olive oil, lemon juice, salt & pepper, this cooked up perfectly in a skillet while the chicken finished. Mmm :-)

Garlic Bread
-Natalie's specialty. We just picked up some italian bread at the store, and she buttered and season it. The two loaves she made went very quickly!

And Jon's contribution: Hot chocolate to drink with dinner!
Oh, and our friend Chris, who couldn't even come, sent over an amazing pumpkin pie with Dane, and after we were all so full! Wow. :-)

After two hours of much space-sharing in Jon's counter-space-less kitchen, we ate dinner and had a lot of fun. I brought the (few) leftovers over to Paul's house, where he and was having a study "party" for Greek class. He wasn't expecting any of the food, so he was pretty happy :-) Sometime this week I will make vegetable stock with the leftover vegetables and garlic, just as soon as I can get a carrot or two and maybe some mushrooms. Yay!