Happy Easter to one and all!  Or happy "Little Easter"as the Monday following is called.  Today is traditionally a day for a picnic out in the countryside.  GP and I went to a friend's farm for a BBQ.  Just what we need after yesterday's 4 hour meal.  About yesterday's meal.  The shame!  The loss of face!  The disappointment!  This was our 5th year having Easter lunch at the same restaurant in the country.  In the past it's always been great but this year they opened a couple of extra rooms and put in more tables.  The kitchen couldn't keep up and it was merely mediocre.   NOT acceptable says MIL.  Next year we'll go elsewhere.  Now today was something different.  Friend Bepe has an old farmhouse in the country that's half abandoned and rundown.  His family keeps an apartment in a part of the main building and an old bachelor acts as tenant farmer and keeps up the land.  We ate in a wood paneled party room his father put in sometime in the 70's with walls of dusty wine bottles, a big stone fireplace and a long table for feasting.  The BBQ was made from an oil drum and a shopping cart.  We had grilled meats and veggies, local cheeses and lots and lots of wine.  I plan on living on water and lettuce leaves for the next few days.  xxoo me