Shabbat menu

• wine, challah rolls, also fresh-and-dried-tomato bread
  
• vegetable chicken soup*
  
• sauteed red cabbage, tri-color carrots, and onion with roasted polenta 'croutons'
  
• chicken baked with hot peppery boozy apricots
  
• salad: tomato, cucumber, fresh corn, green olives, chives, and balsamic vinaigrette
  
• peppers sauteed with fennel, tomato, onion, and garlic
  
• fruit bars
  
• apricot liqueurs

* Made to use the celery, really. Might not get served if it feels too warm for hot soup.

And an unrelated note: Compuserve is of the fail. I finally found someone in the camera section (last time I went in there didn't seem to be anyone working there, so I gave up), and asked for the cord to connect my camera to the computer. He looked at it, said it was Sony (I knew that), they have proprietary designs (knew that too), and they don't carry it. They sold me the camera, but they don't carry the cord to get the photos off the camera? He looked at me as if I were dim and said that they don't carry all the accessories. Seems to me this is a fairly necessary kind of accessory... I think it's time to poke around online for it. *sigh*