Easter Dinner and First Harvest from the Garden

April 22, 2025

On Saturday (April 19), I reserved a table for Easter Sunday brunch at Odette in Florence, AL at 11:00 AM.

On Easter Sunday (April 20), Bruce and I dressed up and went to Odette. They were having a fixed price three course meal. The choices all sounded delicious.

Bruce started with the French onion soup (he claimed my was better). He selected the trout for course two and his eyes tried to roll back into his head at how good it was. He throughly enjoyed the chocolate mousse cake for his third course.

For my first course, I enjoyed the perfectly prepared shrimp toast. For the second course, I tried the Duroc pork chop. It melted in my mouth. I’ve never had pork that tender before. My green beans were what you always hope green bean will be, but so seldom are. For my third course, I enjoyed the key lime tartlet. My eyes did roll back into my head because the tartlet was just that great!

Our service was flawless. Five out of five stars from me and Bruce.

The atmosphere was lively and many of the other diners were regulars. We spoke to other diners as we enjoyed our meal.

We stopped at Walmart on the way home to pick up Bruce’s blood pressure medication.

Nox was sleeping soundly in her crate when we arrived home. She slowly woke up and then became very excited to see us. You’d think she had been missing us the entire time we were gone.

We changed into shorts and spent some time reading.

I took a large bowl out to the garden and harvested arugula, mustard greens, komatsuna and mizuna. Komatsuna has a very similar texture and flavor to spinach. Mizuna has a pretty leaf. It has a similar taste and texture to Komatsuna (aka mustard spinach). I filled up the bowl. My plan was to turn all the lovely greens into a salad.

Bruce went with me to the garden. He found two radishes to harvest. We were both very excited to get our first harvest.

Bruce decided he needed to get the hitch put back into the truck, since we had to move the RV to a new site. We didn’t renew fast enough. We have to be out of our old site by noon on Thursday.

Since I had two medical appointments on Thursday, I asked the owner of Florence AL RV Park if we could move on Wednesday. He said the new site was open and we could move anytime.

Bruce was hoping to move the RV on Monday, so he spent about 40 minutes getting the hitch back into the bed of the truck.

He finished just as the sun was setting.

It felt like a good day and I got to rest my back and left shoulder.