Healthier dinner with friends...

Weekday dinners are easy. No pressure of a big weekend event, regardless of how many people. For us, it's almost always with the same couple. Their schedule is very flexible, so whatever day I'm off, we can usually cook up something to do.

Tonight, it was a healthier dinner - all fresh ingredients from Caputo's market: salad with grapes and Gorgonzola, grilled chicken that barely took 15 minutes to make, green beans, and mashed sweet potatoes with garlic. No bread! Not a single crumb of it... That's really big for this group, and I didn't even miss it.

I tried a summery table with patterned dishes in light colors, but it looked so bland... Then, I added a strip of beach looking fabric, and it's almost like sitting at the edge of the ocean. Almost, but the real thing is so much better.