Mom’s Visits to New Albany

JUL-AUG: Mom came to relax, see friends, and eat well. Buffet brunch with our OCA-Columbus friends at New Albany C.C. Weekly visits to Hollywood Casino & Scioto Downs Racino. Dinners with Pastor Kai & Patty Nilsen & family and my Int’l Wine & Food Society group. Joined my Alban Mews neighbors at our monthly Gathering on the Green - we made pan-fried wontons.

NOV: Happy to have Mom visit again. Back to the casinos for Scioto Downs’ $7 AYCE prime rib Senior Dinners and their penny slots. Lunch with her Shanghai classmate Lucy Chu and BalletMet artistic director Edwaard Liang. New Albany C.C. made a banana split just for her (she ate the whole thing). Joined by Tally & Midge Krumm and Roger & Sherran Blair for a unique reserved table at Skillet (won at a charity silent auction), with Chef/Owner Kevin Caskey; Mom had the lusciously locavore Pig & Grits. Still, nothing beats home cooking, especially the pot luck dinner at Ping & Virginia Chen’s with Stella & Warren Woo, Irene & Ambrose Ng, and Theresa & S.L. Lee, where I offered my famed poached bass with Cha Gua sauce.