A wonderful small dinner party idea – and I mean “small” as in food portions, not number of guests – are tasters! What do you do when you have a wide-ranging variety of gourmet foods in your refrigerator, but not enough for a few regular portions? Well, then, of course you create a gourmet tasting menu! Today I suddenly realized that my fridge and freezer were beginning to resemble an exotic food storage, not unlike what I’ve seen in some restaurants’ cavernous walk-in refrigerators, except that there wasn’t enough of each ingredient other than a small portion. And so it was that the four of us (yes, amazingly the “children” were home as well) got to “taste” everything. Check it out!
“Tasters” Menu Index
5 Small Bites (First Dish)
Penne with Shitake-Gorgonzola cream sauce
and freshly grated Parmigiano
Quail eggs with red & green Pickled Jalapeños,
red caviar & wasabi caviar
Pan sautéed Alaskan Salmon over crunchy lime Red Cabbage Salad
w/ seafood reduction sauce
Baby Potatoes & Chickpeas with
Indian Madras & Coconut curry sauce
Naan Bread w/ herbed garlic-lemon Hummus
“Tasters” Menu Index
5 Small Bites (Second Dish)
Steamed Asparagus tips
in Curried Vinaigrette
Veal-stuffed Ravioli
with sweet Red Pepper Sauce
Morel mushroom stuffed
with Asian Black Rice and Shallots
Oyster (raw or poached) in a pool of
sweet & sour gelée with red & green caviar & dill
Skewered sautéed Curried Shrimp trio
with guacamole-yogurt-jalapeno-cilantro dip
And let’s not forget our qual eggs birds’ nest. Simply delectable and so very pretty!
Now I ask you, how’s that for a “small dinner party idea”? If you like anything here, I will be more than happy to share the recipe. Too many to list, as you can imagine.
2 comments
Your photos are amazing and the plate appears to be one from our collection. Does it have an FOH log on the bottom?
Glad you like the photos! No FOH logo at the bottom of our plates, but we really like what we saw on http://frontofthehouse.com/