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The dinner experience got better for me as it progressed. First I had the strangest experience. I chopped up a bunch of Thai red peppers (I love spicy!) and then BB and I started coughing and sneezing like crazy! It was a huge reaction that didn't end until I sealed up the peppers and carried them down to the garbage. Who knew? It was a very disconcerting beginning to the dinner experience.

Then I had a good but very bland starter. I sauteed brussel sprouts with vinegar and olive oil and ginger and garlic and walnuts. Gosh, how could I have flavored that better? It was just very bland! I had planned to use those peppers but I think even if I didn't almost kill us with the peppers it would have been a weird combination anyway.

Then I had a bowl of tomato soup. Can't go wrong with that. Yum.

Finally a bowl of blueberries, also quite good.

I threw out the awful mushroom concoction that I'd saved from last night.