Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Supper -- what are you cooking? - Page 52  

This is dessert for tomorrow- I just finished doing a bunch up (they are now in the fridge) and was deciding what to do with plating, Pot de creme au chocolat with grand marnier, nothing special, just sharing. Just before plating tomorrow it will have a the finishing touches.

Yeah sure, nothing special. Jeez. I'll have leftovers at your place any time.

Made Beef tenderloin with pineapple.

dcarch

Dcarch....

You always amaze me with your cooking style. Just wonderful.

For the past couple of days I have been planning a nice meal with my parents and some close friends of theirs. The menu I planned was posted on Facebook and I managed to come through with the menu....so here it is in short form.

Tonight for my father and mother and another couple who are close to them I decided to make a menu that would appeal to the flavors of my father's palate. That being said I made the following;

Homemade pates and crackers (posted in another thread), ambrosia spiced fruit reduction (coconut, apples, pineapple, raisins and spices ) to serve with double brie , corinth grapes...etc.

Pinot Grigio (Barefoot – which won a gold)

Apps; Shrimp and avocado salad, Med. Salad , wild mushroom soup with thyme and white wine and truffle oil.

Vina Esmeralda Torres (nice with seafood)

Passion fruit sorbert

Vin D'alsace Willm – Pinot gris

Haddock with 3 pepper and dill sauce with parsley and cream , white wine, roe and capers, flowered buttered beets and carrots and a sprig of thyme.

Dessert was ; Pot au Chocolat with Grand Marnier, topped with a lace of 35% cream , a square of dark chocolate with red peppercorns , a chocolate dipped cherry au brandy, candied rose petals, and abricot mousse with a coulis of abricot reduction and spearamint leaves and 3 balls of cantaloup. Black tea with a baton of crystallized sugar , cinnamon stick.

I made the flower arrangement, and decorated the table as usual.

It was a great evening....but as I served everything I thought of all of you......how maybe you would be happy letting me cook for you. Would you even like it ? For some of you …I knew I might even be pleasing your palate, I took a few pics wanting to share.

Like my friends before me....a passion, a true passion.....all inspire me.

I count you all as my friends and I wished we were all together tonight to celebrate our friendship.

Just wanted you all to know that I thought of you all.......and wished you were here at my table , my friends, mes grands amis .

You inspire me to be better at the thing I love the most.....the art of cooking.

Que la vie est belle avec toi.

Nice.  Very nice.  Had I done it, I would have cropped out the soda can in that one shot of the table.

That shrimp and avocado salad looks like something I might try in the near future.  Well, it ALL looked good, the salad just happens to be something that might fit in well with what I have already planned for sunday's dinner.

mjb.

Yeah, what is that soda can, anyway?

No mystery.....they had not arrived yet and my husband sat down with his soda .....no big deal.

Well it has been around since 2007 and we are going to close this one down. We will be starting new fresher threads around this topic.