Lunch
We had some hors d’oeuvres while we waited for everyone to arrive.

Grapes and crackers to go with a cheese sampler. The dark cheese was a herkimer yellow cheddar, next was a parrano cheese, and finally a buttermilk blue. The parrano was recommended by a fellow shopper at Fresh Market, and it was good, but a little too mild in this setting. The strong flavor of the cheddar and the blue cheeses overpowered it and I think its taste was lost at their sides.
I did have a small …