Supper With A Next Door Friend / Pasta With Ragu

仲良くしていただいているお隣のご夫婦のご主人が２、３日お留守ということで、急に思いついて奥様に夕食に来ていただきました。と言っても、おもてなしというよりも一人で夕食が続くのは寂しいのでいつものご飯をご一緒に、という感じです。今日は夫が作ってくれるというのでお任せしました。パスタのラグーソース（ミートソース）。わたしは前菜に少しだけ洋梨、葡萄、ブルーチーズ、ピーカンナッツのサラダをご用意。デザートは作らないで欲しいとのご要望だったので（少食ですし乳製品を食べると体調が悪くなるようです）、デザートはなし。

The husband of our next door neighbours that we get together with now and again is away for a few days so we asked if the wife would like to come and have dinner with us today. It’s not a ‘dinner party’ really, it’s more of a supper together because she is alone. My husband told me he was going to cook the dinner so I left it to him – it was pasta with ragu (meat sauce). I just made a starter, which was a very simple one, a salad of pear, grapes, pecan nuts and salad leaves. Just something light to start with. She asked us not to serve dessert to her. I think she is quite a small eater and she also gets indigestion if she eats too much dairy. So no dessert.