The menu: (and yes, all homemade and all fairly easy)
- Apps: Shrimp ShuMai with a spicy soy dipping sauce; and an edamame hummus with veggies.
- Entree: Seared sesame crusted Ahi Tuna (didn't do enough sesame seeds though); wasabi mashed potatoes; Asian style asparagus.
- Desert: Mr. Belvedere Meyer Lemon Sorbet w/fruit.
The day was a little more crazed than usual - the wife was gone all day doing girly pampering errands, and my son and I were tasked with finishing the shopping, prepping the "made ahead of time stuff", doing crafts, playing/working in the backyard, and everything else I could figure out to do to tire him out so he'd go to sleep early enough to let us have an adult evening.
The normal course to an evening hosted by Romy and I is that we together come up with the menu (she does more of the legwork on finding interesting recipes), we co-shop (often means I shop), I do the cooking, and she deals with setting the stage and atmosphere for the evening. I am often racing around in the 11th hour just before guests arrive, trying to get those last minute things figured out while getting my son to sleep, while she is adjusting the music selection 1 notch, lighting the last 2 candles, and checking out her hair in another mirror around the house.
Overall this divide and conquer works well and our friends always leave having an awesome night telling us that we "need to do something with our talents" professionally.
I think... this blog may lead to that next career, or at least a step toward that next career.
Thoughts?
1 comment:
We were the lucky couple that did not cancel and got to enjoy a spectacular meal. The evening was fabulous blend of food, wine atmosphere and conversation. A true taset for the palate and we don't even have palates. The Seared Tuna was the highlight for us foodwise - Doug is way too critical. We thought it had the perfect amount of sesame seeds. We were up way too late and had way too much to drink, but it was worth it. What a great night. Many thanks to our hosts.
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