Labor Day falls on the first Monday in September.  It is intended to be a celebration of social and economic successes for American workers.  What it has become is a celebration of eating food and family gatherings. (Made possible by the economic successes of American workers)

My Labor Day plans this year were to relax at home, foot elevated.  I was sidelined with a broken toe, my husband Ron was out-of-town and the rest of my extended family had made other plans.

My plans were very non-specific . I anticipated a quiet day at home catching up on some reading, writing and sewing.  Happily, my plans changed.

On Saturday I found out my son was coming on Monday to spend the day and my husband was planning on returning early in the afternoon on Monday.  I love company and I love celebrations! I was excited I would have enough people for a quasi-celebration, but suddenly I needed to plan a meal for Monday evening.

I wanted to serve something non-traditional.  Normally, we would just grill burgers and hot dogs for the guys and maybe tuna steaks or shrimp for me.  That just didn’t sound appealing this time.

So stepping out from the norm, we came up with something a bit different.  Our menu consisted of Jalapeño chicken and venison sausage for the meat lovers.  For me, it was Lentil Hyderabad (lentils with spices and chilies) and a curry wild rice mix.  We bought some freshly baked Naan bread and grilled fresh sweet potato and Irish potato spears, lightly salted.  It was a wonderful meal, but even as wonderful as it was, my favorite part was the dessert. (Of Course!)

We sliced peaches, topped them with fresh blueberries, then sprinkled them lightly with a small amount of brown sugar and nutmeg.

We served the warm fruit with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.  It was absolutely delicious and completely different from our normal holiday meal.  Considering it was last minute, I think it just may be one of my favorite holiday meals.