A Hopp'in BarufFeast

A HOPP'IN BARUFFEAST IS FULL! See everyone else in March!

Saturday, February 18th at 630pm (note time change from 730pm)

The menu is decided!
Thanks to Gina, Terry, Mom and Dad for inspirational ideas!
Gourmet Pizza evening with 4 varieties. All of them will be cooked on the FAMOUS Big John's Pizza Queen pizza doughs.

1. Thai chicken (contains peanuts)
2. Arugula/feta cheese/ sauteed onion (vegetarian)
3. Truffle/Mushroom and Asiago (vegetarian)
4. Chicken Fajita (spicy)
5. Sauce and mozzarella (with and without hot italian sausage)

Mission

Mission: Provide an open space for friends and family who feel welcome to come and enjoy my 'slow food' dinners, once per month. Bring friends and whatever you can contribute!

Once dinners are closed, they're closed! So sign up when you can.

Stay tuned for updates, dinner dates/times and recipes! Don't hesitate to share your ideas or to request a theme-dinner. I'm always up for a good challenge. :)

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Inaugural Dinner Success!

Thanks to all who made it to my inaugural dinner! To everyone else, I look forward to eating with you soon.

So let's get down to it. What was on the menu? G, take it away with the photos...
  


Traditional bruschetta, (top) and sweet bruschetta (bottom). The strawberry and chevre was a great combination! Who would have thought that you can eat dessert for an appetizer!


Primi piatti: (with inspiration from Risotto) Bay scallop, clam and parsley risotto. This turned out wonderfully creamy mostly because of the nature of arborio rice, while maintaining a reasonable calorie content. Be sure to add the fish-stock slowly for this recipe.

Side: Homemade crunchy kale chips topped with salt, pepper and lemon, cut into squares, and placed (not crowded) onto a baking sheet at 350F for approx 15 mins.

Segundi piatti: (with inspiration from Julia) Poached tilapia in a scallion, butter and pinot grigio reduction. Turned out wonderfully tender without flaking, just like Julia says. (Insert ridiculous imitation of Julia Child's voice here). Too much wine by this point to remember the camera, so no photos, sorry!

Dessert: 
1. Canele from Market Day. Canele are a crunchy-on-the-outside and soft-on-the-inside cake-ish pastry that is way better than I can describe it here. Plus, nuns make it! (Maybe not, see photo)








2. Chile Mango Fruit Floes (Trader jOES pun). Mango at first taste, converts into chile flavor a few seconds after your first bite!






Wines: All white: 2008 Voga Pinot Grigio, 2005 Leaping Horse Chardonnay, 2006 Blue Nun Qualitatswein.

Next dinner to be announced shortly! Thanks again everyone!
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3 comments:

  1. Cari H.October 16, 2011 at 8:00 PM

    I had a few free hours today and thought I would lookup the blog you were telling me about (plus I got into trouble for showing up at my friends without the entire tilapia recipe) - very impressive! Hope you had a great time in Boston, it was nice traveling with you.

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  2. DanOctober 16, 2011 at 8:30 PM

    Haha- thanks for checking it out! I hope your return trip was on time and all. Who won the game?

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  3. Cari H.October 17, 2011 at 11:08 AM

    Ouch - both sensitive subjects... The trip home was a full bus of college students returning from fall break and broken air conditioning... Awesome. Our tailgating party and game were a lot of fun, but ended up being an embarrassing loss of 42 - 3. Usually we claim we are too busy studying to be good at sports but I don't think that excuse works against Harvard. How was your test? Is your name a few letters longer?

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