Deb's Lunch … and dinner and breakfast too

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The irony of it was that it was the “everything wrapped” brunch in honor of Christo & Jeanne Claude’s June 13th birthday. Sausage rolls – sausages wrapped in dough; asparagus in filo; mushrooms wrapped in parchment and baked; eggs & spinach rolled around cheese; and strawberry spiral pie – slices from a roll of biscuit dough with a rhubarb puree filling. I must’ve forgotten to take out the trash after the last brunch – May 23 – and when I came over to drop off the OJ to thaw, there were fruit flies swarming out of it. I took the bag out, but when I came back Sunday morning, there were still fruit flies – hanging out by the giant bunch of lillies and snap dragons from the farmers market – because they’d still been breeding in the other trash can.

So I had to keep all the food under wraps, until people got there to eat it up, especially the strawberry pie.

After brunch I went to the corner grocery (it’s actually medium size, and kind of gourmet, since it’s in a foodie neighborhood – good meat counter, local produce, cheeses, wines, flowers – and it’s next door to the ice cream factory, so it always has half gallons for a decent price), and located the aisle of dreadful chemicals, thinking I would spray. After squinting at the cans of Raid and trying to decide if fruit flies were “non-stinging gnats” I bought a trap – a little plastic apple with some dope you squirted in – which actually looked and smelled a lot like sweet vermouth. One of the brunch attendees, who’s working as a bartender, had been telling me that Vermouth was great fruit fly bait. I took the flowers home, nice, might as well enjoy them while they last, took out all the trash, made sure everything was clean and dry and left the trap in the empty trash can. Hope it works.