Sunday dinner
The boy and I are having friends over for Sunday dinner and this time around, we decided to keep it real simple. We are learning that because we love cooking so much, we almost, always go overboard when we have people around. And then we hardly have any time to enjoy our guests because we are jumping around taking things out of the oven or the fridge or some other place
So this time, the menu'll just be :
Mixed greens with Papaya or a really green salad from the wonderful F&W. F&W always makes me feel so happy because I feel I reach a sort of cooking zenith when I cook through it. Most of the recipes are simple and yet, they just look so pretty.
Roast Chicken which is a combination of an F&W recipe and an Ina Garten one. We are using cornish game hens for it because they are a more manageable lot. The last time we made this, we were quite pleased with the result, though we only used one game hen. Here's hoping we don't muck up too much using two.
Roast veggies which really needs no recipes - just tons of green, yellow and red pepper, sweet potato and green beans roasted in delicious home-made chicken broth (I can't tell you how pleased I am that I have finally mastered the art of broth making :) ) and salt and pepper
& of course, our old staple, french loaf with roasted garlic butter spread on it
And for dessert,
we are just having coffee with chocolate hazelnut biscotti . Doesn't it look gorgeous?
The place setting are deep maroon and white, simply because we got the most gorgeous white dinnerware and a lovely maroon table runner for our wedding. Hoorah for wedding registries!
Edited to add:
It was a success - oh, I am so glad. We paired the chicken with a nice chardonnay and the whole thing went off so well.
The only blight in the culinary horizon were the biscottis which were quite easy to make but I baked it too long the first time around & so were a bit too hard
and the second time around were not sweet enough.
So got some ice cream and made Broken Biscotti ice cream with hot mocha from this wonderful BBC recipe and really the mocha did look as deeply dark as the pic, though mine was done with dutch cocoa pwdr & sugar.
All in all, a nice quite successful evening :)
ps: La Vida & Beks - come over anytime!!!
So this time, the menu'll just be :
Mixed greens with Papaya or a really green salad from the wonderful F&W. F&W always makes me feel so happy because I feel I reach a sort of cooking zenith when I cook through it. Most of the recipes are simple and yet, they just look so pretty.
Roast Chicken which is a combination of an F&W recipe and an Ina Garten one. We are using cornish game hens for it because they are a more manageable lot. The last time we made this, we were quite pleased with the result, though we only used one game hen. Here's hoping we don't muck up too much using two.
Roast veggies which really needs no recipes - just tons of green, yellow and red pepper, sweet potato and green beans roasted in delicious home-made chicken broth (I can't tell you how pleased I am that I have finally mastered the art of broth making :) ) and salt and pepper
& of course, our old staple, french loaf with roasted garlic butter spread on it
And for dessert,
we are just having coffee with chocolate hazelnut biscotti . Doesn't it look gorgeous?
The place setting are deep maroon and white, simply because we got the most gorgeous white dinnerware and a lovely maroon table runner for our wedding. Hoorah for wedding registries!
Edited to add:
It was a success - oh, I am so glad. We paired the chicken with a nice chardonnay and the whole thing went off so well.
The only blight in the culinary horizon were the biscottis which were quite easy to make but I baked it too long the first time around & so were a bit too hard
and the second time around were not sweet enough.
So got some ice cream and made Broken Biscotti ice cream with hot mocha from this wonderful BBC recipe and really the mocha did look as deeply dark as the pic, though mine was done with dutch cocoa pwdr & sugar.
All in all, a nice quite successful evening :)
ps: La Vida & Beks - come over anytime!!!
3 comments:
:) woman! I am so hungry now.
sounds lovely!
Can I come? :)
I must say... The dessert left my mouth watering..
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