The Mother's Day Scene

I got in over my head this weekend. Instead of shuttling between my parents and my in-laws for Mother's Day, I offered to have everyone over here for dinner.  And then the menu became much larger than I originally intended. It turned out to be:

Homemade crab cakes with lemon garlic aioli
Beef tenderloin
Sauteed spinach
Sweet Potato fries
Yukon Gold fries (for those that don't like sweet potatoes <cough> my dad <cough>)
Homemade strawberry pie
Vanilla whipped cream

Just a simple little meal! And I worked up a little bit of a sweat getting the timing of all the elements correctly.

But I was able to snap a picture of our dining room table before everyone got here. Since we had so many people over, we had to use our china because we didn't have enough place settings for the everyday stuff.

Courtesy of my iPhone's Instagram app.