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Jeri Northrop, Steve's Mom
In my last post I congratulated Gerald for his participation in the Door County Half-Marathon. Steve’s Mom, Jeri, is also the recipient of a medal. She and two friends, Dottie Klepp and Marion Sneeberger walked in the Nicolet 5K. These three ladies are in their 70′s and 80′s – and had a blast.
Jeri said it was very interesting and they saw lots of people, some a little odd. Like the man who was brushing his teeth before the race for about 15 minutes, and the man doing needlepoint on a bench during the race. They also saw a lot of people they knew and Jeri said it was really neat to see all the people in crazy attire along the route.
Jeri kept the medal, but gave me the T-shirt! I’ll have to be careful where I wear it!
From tenderloin to dessert!
My mother-in-law just celebrated her ?? birthday. Steve and I invited Don and Marianne Diekman, Dottie Klepp, Pat Crow and my parents to our home for Jeri’s birthday dinner party Sunday night. The onset of ice around the county necessitated postponing the party until Monday night, Jeri’s actual birthday. Fortunately, though everything was prepped, nothing was in the oven – phew!
The menu was as follows: Mustard-Roasted Beef Tenderloin with Creamy Mustard Sauce, Roasted Red Onions, Shingled Roasted Potatoes, Green Beans with Dried Cherries – and White-on-White Birthday Cake!
Most of the menu came from December’s Martha Stewart Magazine. Instead of the Roasted Red Onions, that menu included Mushroom Wellington Cups. I despise mushrooms. I never serve mushrooms. I love onions. I serve onions often and this particular recipe is delicious!
The menu from the magazine also included a parsley and citrus salad. I fashioned the garnish with parsley, leaf lettuce, oranges and a little citrus vinaigrette; the only difficult (and extremely time-consuming) part of the entire menu was peeling the membrane from each orange section and squeezing those membranes for the juice! I have to say that each “skinless” section of orange was really good – but it seemed a little ridiculous and you sure don’t get much juice from those membranes! But that’s Martha!
It was very easy to actually cook the meal Monday afternoon – everything was ready to go in the ovens, the table was set – Steve had to shovel the driveway a couple of times, but for the most part we were good to go! Dave brought a few bottles of really good wine and champagne, we toasted Jeri, then Wayne, then Sue Crow. I love champagne!
Dinner was delicious. I’ll post recipes for the tenderloin and the sides later; Barb and Gregg are working on making it easier to print recipes from my blog and the website. Watch for the recipes!
