Inaugural Mah Jongg at Dana’s

After twenty three years of playing Mah Jongg at the club it moved to be a weekly tradition at my house. Our group of players is made up of those friends who would never miss a game as well as those who can only play once or twice a year. There are two things we can all agree on, we never get enough jokers and we always want a healthy and yummy something for lunch.
Over the years the number of jokers we get has remained static, but the lunch has waned. The “salad of the week” got to be a comedy competition among the players at my table, seeing who could rightly guess the mystery ingredient. Pickled blueberry was probably the winner of the worst repetitive offering, although I still hold on to the “beets three ways” as the most unappetizing salad. Roast beets, pickled beets and puréed beets just don’t go together. After so many requests for a good easy salad fell on deaf ears I gave up and volunteered to make it myself.  
It was so nice for Shay to have friends come to the door this morning and sit and play in the living room. When lunch time came, I warmed up the chicken, and Christy and Mary Lloyd helped me plate the greens, red onions, avocado, oranges, bacon, cheese and chicken. We passed round the clinton lime vinaigrette at the table. It was a very simple salad, all that we had been asking for.

After lunch we went back to the tables and played a few more hands. Shay was sad when everyone had to go. It was a much more pleasant experience for me and hardly a bit of trouble to actually get what I have wanted. I should have done this years ago.