It was a New York Times recipe, fitting since one of the couples was B’s colleague Lexi and her husband Grant. She must have liked it, cause she instagrammed it afterwards — if ever there was a barometer of love, social media is it. [Though the photo at the bottom I actually stole from Lindsey, one of my other guests — thanks Linds! Guess she liked it too, obviously.]

Anyway the recipe called for avocado as well, but since I was serving some with my main course (recipe for that salmon tartare coming in a few days), I decided to opt out. Plus I had so much radish happening, I rolled with that instead. Aren’t the red ones below gorgeous? The last picture by the way, is me holding a daikon radish — in case you were wondering what one looks like.