Dreamie House Potluck...and a baby bunny!

Friday night the Mac family, along with our friends and neighbors from the 4th floor, went to a potluck to celebrate the triumphant return to Seattle of Farmer Becky.  Dreamie House is a lovely urban oasis of a home, with chickens, rabbits, and a spectacular indoor garden upstairs.  Roommate Noe cooked up some delicious braised rabbit, Becky made potatoes and celeriac au gratin, and Magan made the best gluten-free peanut butter chocolate chip cookies I've ever tasted.  Siri and Gerry created a full smorgasbord, complete with pickled herring (with and without mustard sauce), rye bread, homemade lutefisk with melted butter (gelatinous but tasty), and something called ski cheese, which was nutty and delicious.  Gerry also made some kick-ass lox hors d'oeuvres with cream cheese, green onions, and lemon olive oil on rice crisps.  Other guests brought pasta with salmon and cream sauce, homemade bread stuffing, cranberry bread, carrot salad with goat cheese, greens with beets and walnuts, chips and guacamole, and a vast array of homebrew, cider, and wine.  We brought a pear cobbler, adapted from an Epicurious recipe.  I substituted Kraken rum (yum) for the bourbon and used orange zest and juice instead of lemon.  We cut back on the nutmeg in the topping and added a bit of cinnamon and baked it in our trusty cast-iron Dutch oven.  The house was full of happy potluckers, the conversation was wide-ranging and entertaining, and I got to see some friends and reconnect. Mac Mini was the star of the show, toddling around and tasting everything; her favorite was the guacamole.  Gerry brought in a 3-week old bunny from the hutch in the backyard and Mac Mini got to carefully pet it.  So soft and sweet!  We left early-ish to put the kiddo to bed, but I could have stayed much longer with the good food and good company.  Yay Friday night potluck and welcome back Becks!