Easter Dinner was last Sunday....everyone was traveling to my dad's place but I was personal cheffing for the past 3 days/evenings.
After a visit from Farmer Lee Jones, I ended up with alot of veg.....
my brother and sil, 4 of their 5 children and me.
Roasted German butterball potatoes and fingerlings...olive oil, salt and pepper
roasted roots....parsnips, carrots, beets
Haricot verte with dillweed/lemon/garlic/olive oil
Green Salad with hearts of palm, sugar snaps, toasted pecans, mandrian oranges (my family loves them, they are considered a special treat.....sometimes I'll supreme oranges, but on the whole they are into mandrian oranges)
Chicken potpie. I had reduced to paste 40% cream, made a fresh chicken stock bechemel, added tarragon. Had cooked chicken, added thawed tiny peas and blanch fresh carrots. Topped with bechemel and then baked off puff separately and topped warm rich creamy chicken/veg goo with that.
Warm good bread and butter
Strawberries with raspberry mascarpone and amarettis
Dessert platter....brownies, lemon bars, lavendar shortbread, chocolate chip cookies.....
Today I'm solo....so will roast off the remaining beets, make a crab claw salad, large green salad with hearts of palm, green beans, sugar snaps, possibly some fingerlings. Blue cheese dressing....added buttermilk, mayo, yogurt, dillweed, shallots, black pepper.
Clear out some of the fridge and consider traveling south for a much needed road trip. New Orleans probably does not have snow right now. STL had 70* weather 2 days ago and is freaking snowing yet again. Ok enough, uncle....
FYI. It's almost morel hunting season.....and it's gonna be a bumper mushroom year with all the rain.
Oh, roasted lamb with new potatoes is an Easter standard here....sometimes I make rabbit ravioli in carrot sauce (sick sense of humor).....coconut and lemon curd are Springtime too.
Last edited by shroomgirl; 03-23-2008 at 11:58 AM.
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