Ten people gathered for a 7 course dinner to toast the new year and drink away the old. Appetizers began with pretzel flats with a hot mustard dip, sure-good stand-by shrimp and cocktail sauce, sea salt bagels with a spinach dip, brie cheese with red raspberries, garlic stuffed olives, and black berries the size of a gorilla's knuckle.
The next course was soup. Either a crab corn chowder or a creamy tuna noodle mushroom soup (that rocked). Served with bread and butter.
The next course was either the wedge salad with the salad dressing in a pepper or a fruit salad over organic greens.
The chef's sampler was a beef tenderloin bit sauteed in a mustard glaze. Served on a tiny flat bottom spoon.
The pallet cleanser was an apple cranberry ice that bounced on the plates (wrong plate choice) but it added hours of fun for the guests.
Dinner was one of three options: Pork loin stuffed with pecans and apricots served with orange rice (which I would never make again) and a replacement of scalloped potatoes. Second entree choice was the seafood platter - a wasabi tuna, a crab cake, jalapeno pepper potatoes and creole shrimp. Finally the country chicken casserole served with vegetables and biscuit.
Dessert was a help yourself and your neighbor as different sides of the table had different desserts - a chocolate carmel brownie. A french vanilla pound cake with vanilla whipped cream with fire roasted apples, and a German (though it had no German in it ) chocolate pie that should win an award by the "damn this is rich society"
The evening began at 9:00 p.m. we ate until 11:45 and we saw Dick Clark and Hannah Montana and Carrie Underwood (who's voice was like fingernails on a chalk board) ... anyway we saw the "green ball" drop but then saw 1,000,000,000 piece of paper fly through the air so I think that negates the ball. All and all, we all shared our goal for 2008 and for many it was just to be alive. However, that goal was used up by the Bee Gee's in 1978 ... Stayin' Alive!
2 comments:
Mark,
Glad to be your first commenter in 2008! I was telling my boss yesterday about your 7-course meal and everyone wanted to know what was going to be served. Now I can e-mail this to him with the questions answered.
May the new year bring many wonderful experiences!
By far the best party yet. They just keep getting better and better!
We had the yummy leftover fruit and nuts with strawberry yogurt for breakfast, I warmed up my tuna noodle mushroom soup and had that for lunch with a hunk of warm french bread.
Tomorrow I am making bread pudding out of the leftover french bread!
Thanks for the wonderful meal and the next few days of yummy leftovers!
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