One of my favorite events of the year is a Harvest Dinner that my neighbor Margaret hosts each Autumn. She invites everyone to come and bring a dish that incorporates something from their garden. I love to cook for the season so I start thinking well in advance of what I am going to cook. This year I chose a Spaghetti Squash with Lemon and Capers (by Jimmy Bradley from the Red Cat restaurant in NYC). It is a favorite Fall recipe of mine that I found a couple of years ago. I will post pictures at the end and a tutorial in the following post.

I went to Margaret’s house as she was setting up so I could take some pictures before it got dark. She is one of the most amazingly, artistic people I know. She is very detail oriented and everthing she touches becomes wonderful. She can create the most beautiful designs out of anything, literally anything!

This is the entrance to her backyard.

I love the rusted, iron medallions incorporated between the stones in the path leading to her backyard. Great touch!

She has this great vintage tea kettles and tea cups hanging throughout the yard.

Brightly colored glass bottles line the pathway as well. Brilliant!

This is one of my favorites because Margaret’s scare crow woman is wearing the boots of the season!

On her back porch she has this great nook of vintage treasures…

Gorgeous chandelier and candelabra…

Flower and fruit filled centerpieces…

The party began…

…and this is my dear friend Margaret that I admire so much!

We ate on pie tins…

Everyone brought such wonderful things like chocolate zucchini cake, caprese salad, bruschetta with heirloom tomatoes, butternut squash soup, roasted tomato soup, spaghetti squash with homemade tomato sauce, lemon curd and peach, apple and berry cobblers! It goes without saying but we were well fed.

My Spaghetti Squash with Lemon and Capers.

What ambience! Another wonderful Harvest Dinner!