All the meals sound great! Geoff, I'm especially impressed with your efforts! Yum.

My brother and his wife cooked, so I only had to make dessert and a cheese platter. We gorged ourselves on shrimp, which they roasted rather than steamed and they were lovely. We also had a hot crab dip with crackers, toasted bread topped with sautéed granny smith apples and goat cheese, and crab cakes. Then they served lobster ravioli and tricolor fettucini in a lemon alfredo sauce. It was quite lovely.

We went to my in-law's today and she made a ham, broccoli, asparagus and sliced canned yams baked in a brown sugar sauce. She's not the greatest cook in the world and the word "over-cooked" was invented to describe most of her cooking.