Happy New Year!

Hope your New Year's eve went off as well as ours did. We had a couple of friends over and served what can only be described as a wonderful dinner. My wife and I took turns cooking, and everything went off perfectly. Our friends brought excelllent wine to compliment the meal. Couldn't have asked for better.

Here's the menu (just to make you jealous):

• Tomato Bocconcini Skewers with Basil & Olive Oil
• Roasted Tomato Soup with Lemon & Basil
• Seared Scallops with Jalapeño Crème
• Warm Spinach Salad with Pancetta Dressing & Asiago Cheese
• Strip Loin Steaks with French Mustard Sauce
• Mandarin Praline Trifle

Now that was a dinner.

Good friends, good food, good conversation, good evening. What could be better?

Hope you had the same, and look forward to spending a fair bit more time here this year.

In other news...

...Started putting up the new website. Running into major problems, of course, so don't go visiting just yet. It will look good, though.

...Cold Magics is ticking along, which is good.

...And I'm back to work tomorrow. And it is a sign of why I took this job that I'm looking forward to it.

Happy New Year, everyone.