Sunday Supper

Had the gang over for supper last night.

Rather than serving a dinner of courses -- pasta course, meat, then salad, and dessert -- I put everything out at once:

•  Baked ricotta [recipe follows]
•  Assorted cheeses -- gruyere, gouda, provolone -- with pepperoni slices
•  Baba ganoush
•  Apple chutney [recipe follows]
•  Crostini, crackers, and Ree Drummond's steakhouse dinner rolls [http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2009/10/buttered-rosemary-rolls/
•  Green salad
•  Mezzi rigatoni with broccoli rabe and oven-roasted sausage [recipe follows]

We grazed and grazed and talked and laughed and had a great time.

Dessert was pumpkin bread [recipe follows] that I'd made earlier Sunday morning.  Mine is chock full of raisins, dates, prunes, and crystallized ginger.  Mmmmmmmmm....