Valentines Day

[shroomgirl]

OK guys I had a call today from someone who wants alot of RED at dinner.....ideas...
small(10) sit down dinner party.
This is what I threw together:
Tomato Bisque with basil twists
Red pepper stuffed with garlic herb cheese and a basalmic drizzle
Chicken stuffed with smoked mozz and proscuitto marinara
pasta alfredo
Broccolini with lemon
Strawberry tart with nut crust and Grand Marnier Chantilly

or
non red but I like
Pate with currants, grand marnier served with apple slices and croutons

Heart of Palm with shrimp with a Thousand Island dressing on baby greens...(haven't done that in years)

Veal Blanquette with carrots, pearl onions, haricot verte

bagette/plugra
Chocolate mousse in a chocolate shell

[momoreg]

My favorite shade of red is redcurrant puree. You could use it as a sauce, or use it to flavor a mousse, bavarian, fool, cheesecake, whatever. It's just a gorgeous color!

I sometimes bake flower petals into white tuiles, and they do retain their color. This is something I think I invented, let me know if you've seen it elsewhere.

And this one I told capechef about. It is one of the coolest desserts I've see. It was at the Park Avenue Cafe (Dan Budd pastry chef). It was a chocolate cake, with red fruit leather. The cake was a cylinder, and the leather was rolled up into a cylinder, placed on top of the cake, with a candle in the center, glowing through the red of the leather. It was amazing. Great for a small party, and really festive for Valentines, with the flame!!

[cape chef]

Blood orange mousse in a passion fruit cup with a pomegranate sauce. Just pulled that out of my derriere . warm lobster medallions with roast lobster butter and coral sauce?
Maybe over squid ink pasta for dramatics.
Momoregs leather production served with cherry/raspberry sorbet in a lace Florentine cookie cup (leather and lace)Yum
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[shroomgirl]

lol you are hilarious!!!who says there is no humor in food. MOMO the flower petal is too coool...nope don't think I've seen it before.
I thought of lobster americane(it ws James'Beard book)
morel bisque with tarragon heart crisps
Asparagus with goat cheese souffle
the lobster
bagette
chocolate puff with chambord chantilly and organic berries.

HMMMMM leather and lace
whips of string cheese with a suggestion of pomagranite dressing...on a soft bed of greens with a beeting heart

Satiny smooth heart of artichoke soup with
cupids herb arrows

YOUR TURN



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Red potatoes roasted with garlic, lemon, rosemary and parsley.

Red currant glazed cornish game hens stuffed with red rice.

Roasted beets, pearl onions, and red carrots.

Angel food cake with raspberry sauce.

Sweet and sour pork or chicken (red sauce).

Just for fun....the armadillo groom’s cake from Steel Magnolias

The Pasta with Red Wine Sauce from The Minimalist Cooks at Home by Mark Bittman.
Boil pasta in water just until it bends and then finish by simmering in red wine.

[cape chef]

How about warm mini beet and goat cheese tartlets?
or peppered camembert and raspberry filo purses?
Or Stem strawberries hollowed out and piped with strawberry marscapone and dipped in chocolate.
Or heart shaped tuna carpaccio canapes with horseradish sauce and chive oil drizzle.
Ok who's next
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I had an excellent appetizer at The Ebbit Room in Cape May NJ with three kinds of caviar: red, green and black with scallops.
It was so colorful I did not want to eat it.

I'm kind of new at this, but....

Chili crusted seared tuna on wilted red swiss chard....
Salad with radishes and roasted red pepper dressing....
Rhubarb and raspberry tarts...???????

[cape chef]

Hey Nella,

sounds good to me!!
I would eat every morsel
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[momoreg]

For an HD, a hollowed out radish, filled with blue cheese and frisee.

[shroomgirl]

Radichio rolled around pancetta adn parmesan bread crumbs lightly sauteed...think it would turn brown?

I really like that mascarpone with strawberries in choc....guess their shelf life is negliable.
...truffle oil sexy not red....hmmmm
How about a ligonberry sauce with duck breast?

OYSTERS anyone??????


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[cape chef]

shroomgirl, maybe dip the radicchio concoction in a light egg batter.It would definitely turn on you when heat is applied.
The berries you need to make the same day except for the stuffing
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[cape chef]

how about pink scallops from the puget sound napped with a beurre rouge
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[shroomgirl]

Very Good Mark!!! Welcome to the fun.
Didn't dawn on me to use new potatoes....duh. how about the old

New potatoes with sour cream adn caviar as a passed hdo.
Possibly a decent red caviar?

Beet soup....Borscht with a creme fraiche heart and dillweed heart biscuits.

oh I like this game.