Nora, that dinner looks KILLER! My problem would be wanting to try every single dish/beer combination. I wouldn't be able to choose.

Thanks Nora and Cass.

There's a small possibility of well, unpleasantness that might involve legalities (us vs them). I'm working on it. Joe doesn't want to spend a lot of time on it - he just wants tomove on, but I'm in "make them pay" mode. I'll spend the time and the energy and see what we can do.

Cause I'll bet you my spleen that if Joe was a mother, not a father, they wouldn't have shitcanned him.

Aims, I getting really pissed off for you guys and I haven't even read everything yet. Grrrrrrrr. You are all much in my thoughts.

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*My* dinner would be:

Soups
Pale ale rock shrimp bisque with 1/2 pint Tall Tale Pale Ale

Appetizers
Fried oysters with endive salad and lavender honey with Flute of L'amour du Jour

Salads
Truffled asparagus and mascarpone frittata with frisee salad and caramelized shallot vinaigrette with 1/2 pint Weekapaug Gruit

Entrees
Roasted duck breast with morel mushroom and barley "risotto", french beans and a savory demi glace with Tear drop glass of YouEnjoyMyStout

Desserts
Pistachio-barley wine panna cotta with Snifter of 2005 Blunderbuss Barleywine

But, as Tep said, I wants them alllllllllllll!

{{{Joe and Aimee}}} I hope Joe finds better work and soon, with an employer who understands the concept of a sick wife and child. Fuckers. Tons of job~ma heading Joe's way, and I think making them pay sounds wonderful.

Nora, this is the menu I would choose:

Soup- Pale ale rock shrimp bisque1/2 pint Tall Tale Pale Ale

Appetizer- Fried oysters with endive salad and lavender honey Flute of L'amour du Jour

Salad- Truffled asparagus and mascarpone frittata with frisee salad and caramelized shallot vinaigrette 1/2 pint Weekapaug Gruit

Entree-Smoked bone-in filet mignon with white asparagus, peruvian mashed potatoes and a porter hollandaisePint of cask conditioned Charles River Porter

Cold fudge "sundae"1/2 pint Charles River Porter

Someone should tell them that a canneloni is not a bean.

I'm hoping Joe either gets the G4 gig, or can do some freelancing stuff enough to get by (though after three or four years of doing the same myself, I'm still only barely getting by)

Hey, speaking of, Aims. Joe should call me on my cell today. I'll try and call him around noonish or so. I left a message for him last night. I can get him a (very short, not paying very well) gig for next weekend, but he has to come in tonight.

And with that, I'm on my way out the door.

sj, I guessed it was a misspell on cannellini beans. Also your menu picks hit some of the ones I was waffling on. Yummy.

Okay, Nora -- here are my choices (as you know, I avoid pale ale like the Black Death, so my choices are colored by this prejudice) (and I can't tell from some of the beer names what they are):

Soup: Chicken consommé with matzo ball & 1/2 pint Heather Ale

Appetizer: Camembert and asian pear wrapped in filo with maple glaze and spiced pecans & 1/2 pint Biere de Miel

Salad: Artichoke, fennel, hearts of palm, roasted pepper and herbed cheese terrine with a cracked black pepper and pecorino dressing & 1/2 pint Golden Ring

Entree: Smoked bone-in filet mignon with white asparagus, peruvian mashed potatoes and a porter hollandaise & Pint of cask conditioned Charles River Porter [This is actually one of the categories in which I had no trouble choosing!]

Dessert: Honeyed amber baklava & Flute glass of Arquebus Barleywine

sj, I guessed it was a misspell on cannellini beans.

I figured, but a canneloni is an entirely different thing.