I won't embarrass my friend by talking about the excellent meal she made, but isn't that a great olive dish above? Talk about specialized pieces of equipment.  The olives were fat, spicy and filled with feta, and I think I ate all of them myself. She got them at the olive bar at Eddie's on North Charles Street.

Her husband made a blueberry pie in a crumb crust for dessert. He poured the cooked filling (made with fresh berries) over some berries  that hadn't been cooked, so every once in a while you would get a burst of blueberry flavor. Neat trick. Maybe everyone knows about it but me, but I've never made a blueberry pie you didn't bake.