I have been wanting to tell this particular story for a long time now. It says it’s about food, yes, but there’s more to the food than in the picture. It’s most about the people and why sometimes simple things like a salad goes so well with the exquisite Lobster.
It’s not so much how exquisite it is…It’s in the love and care put into it.

My name is Marge Engstrom. I live a simple but happy life. I own my own Restaurant where I am the chef. Chez Margeaux is the place to be.

I have to tell you what is cooking in our private life. It will not so much be about me, but more about my daughter… well… and the family she married into. My daughter, just like me, we are more the Autumn Salad kind of people.

I will tell you how the Lobster entered our family. Therefore I have to take you back many , many years.

See my son in law, he’s a lobster guy, brought change. Not just that…, he brought his entire family along. The dead ones that is! I have to tell you something about them, The Field Family.

Chester Field III and his lovely young wife Lauren lived in the Field Estate, just down the road from where my husband Pete, god rest his soul, and myself bought a lovely old farm. That was years after this couple had passed away.

I guess they were not very happy. Chester loved himself more than he loved his wife.
Lauren was just a nice prop in his posh house and a pretty accessory.

They must have had something going together though. Lauren was an amazing cook.
And the love for his wife went through this man’s stomach. Lauren did everything in the house. She cooked and cleaned and tried to tend the vegetable garden. Chester just painted.

A very vein man, this Chester Field III. They would stay together however, certainly after Lauren announced they were expecting their first baby.

Lauren was very lonely. All her hopes were set on the baby. The affection she didn’t get from Chester she was going to get from her children. She would also make sure they would always get the love they deserved.

Chester IV was born on a hot summers eve. The strange thing however was, that Chester III was to be found in the nursery many evenings to just hold his first born and talk to him. The softer side of Chester III slowly surfaced.

Chester left his wife alone may nights and many days. He was out! Business trips, Fishing, Art courses…. Lauren stayed home with her son. And cooked.

Many times Chester would call, telling Lauren he was staying away a bit longer than planned. Do you need anything? He would ask. Lauren couldn’t tell him she needed him home, with his family.

Chester would always bring home expensive gifts. Sort of making up for the time he spent away from home.

Just once…, only once… Lauren accused him of caring more about the riches than he cared about her and their son.

Chester decided to stay home more, and he painted… and painted.

Occasionally the couple would run in to each other in the bedroom.

And so it happened Lauren was blessed once more. A new baby was going to be her prerogative. This was her life. Her children would be her life.

As Randolph made his entry in the Field family, Chester was getting old. He felt he was too old to have to take care of babies. He would leave that to Lauren as well. He just wanted to paint and to be left alone.

It was not very long after Randolph was born when Lauren was pregnant once again. She tried once more to get Chester to help her with the children, or at least tend to the garden now that she couldn’t do that anymore. She wanted to make Ambrosia. But the gardening skills were not sufficient.

Lauren and Chester were blessed with another son, Cedric.

Lauren made a decision. There were NO more babies going to be born. She would have her own bedroom from now on.

With two toddlers and her firstborn Chester IV, she was having her birthday and even her husband was home to celebrate this with them. The two youngest children didn’t really know their father well. He was never there. The two Chesters had a special relationship. Lauren was happy about that.

Chester was not really interested in his two youngest sons. His only heir was Chester IV. That was enough. He could now die a happy man.

Lauren adored her children and they adored her. She would always cook their favorite meals, tell them stories and goof around with them.

Yes…, Lauren felt she got all the love she needed. Her children were her everything. She always told her children that she loved their father very much, and in a way that was true.

Chester was a young adult already and Randolph and Cedric came to him whenever they had questions. For them their father was just someone who came with the house.

Lauren told her sons that no matter what happened they should always take care of one another. Family was the most important thing they had in their lives. Family…, you cannot choose your family… You might as well love each other.

Yes, The Field family was complete. Many years went by and the sons grew up.
That was many years ago, but I will tell you what happened after when I get back from work. I have to cook Lobster Thermidor for my guests in the restaurant tonight.

To be continued…