Ok, so the follow up post.
Our dinner party consisted of 2. Us. That's it. While we've had dinner parties in the past, we wanted to get the hang of doing it right.
Most of this dinner was made either the day before, or the morning of. If you go to the website, it lists some suggestions for what to make ahead and in what order, that is great thing, let me tell you!!!!! It made clean-up almost non existent the day of dinner, and we had time to relax as the remaining things were just a shove-inthe-oven.
Unfortunately, the blog didn't post the drink pairings until this morning (doh!, I tend to jump the gun) but I think that since it was only two of us, more wine would have been overkill (for both the budget and the blood alcohol levels on a sunday before work monday!) I played it safe and went with a nice Australian Shiraz (I had a Ribera and a Zin on deck too, but figured, australian lamb, australian shiraz)
As mentioned, I'm going to try to enter the photo contest thing....if you guys have any "favorite" pictures, let me know...these arent at all edited....so of course I need to mess with some levels/color and some degraining, etc. but appreciate the input.
Also, do you guys like the way I broke the posts up by menu item? or would you have prefered chronological started 2 days before when I started making the soup?????
How much did I spend? Not too much actually, granted the lamb was 26$ and the wine was 20$...but I'd say under 100$ for everything and even if we had say 4 people over we'd have more than enough food, AND leftovers for a day or two.
So.....when we have our next one, hopefully people will read this blog and want to come over and be "social" with us!!!!!!! Our little culinary personal ad? haha.
In closing.....Hope you enjoyed and I (we) appreciate your input!!
POST AWAY!!!!!!!!