First barbecue of the year

Weather's beautiful and we finally had our first barbecue of the year.

Actually it was our second barbecue as we had a sort of test barbecue the day before.
We invited Maija, Vincent and their family over for a very informal barbecue. Maija showed up looking impeccable and dressed beautifully, Vincent was casual and the kids were dressed as kids. They were invited 'round for 19:00... at about 19:15 I started cooking the appetizer sausages and at 19:30 we started eating them. At 19:40 I called them to find out where they were and they showed up 5 minutes later...

The barbecue was very good with lots of different meats (lamb, sausages, rabbit and chicken) and Desney did some great summer salads (potato salad / tomato and basil salad) and the kids had crisps and coke of course.

The wine was just our daily Beaujolais (Fleurie - Clos de la Dîme 2002) as it is impossible to get a wine to go with all of the various barbecue sauces. It went down well but perhaps was not special enough for our guests. I therefore took Vincent down to the cellar and we cracked open a Burgundy (Pommard - Les Bertins Permier Cru 1998) to have with the cheese. I quickly decnated it as it had been in the wine storage fridge and it went down well. Pale colouring but an amazing nose. Unfortunately you can't drink the nose and the mouth faded away quickly. Still quite delicious.

Dessert was some vanilla ice cream I had made in the afternoon along with some fresh strawberries and mangos. They didn't hang out for coffee as they left around midnight wanting to get the kids home.