Had a dinner party Friday night - Rebecca Stevens, Debbi Bennett, Jeff and Judy Berty, and Tim and Cheryl all came. Nothing too crazy for dinner - simple appetizers, an amuse bouche of fish sandwiched between sweet potato crisps and an artichoke cheese spread, a squash soup, a morel mushroom cream sauce with puff pastry, an Argentinian beef dish (flank steak stuffed with a spinach dressing), cheese and salad (duh), another french chocolate cake dessert called 'coulant au chocolat', and then coffee.
Eskimos may have 300 different words for snow, but the french have 300 ways to say 'chocolate cake' - this coulant is perhaps one of the better ones for a dinner party, since it stays in the frig until the bitter end and only takes 10 minutes to cook in the oven (think chocolate souffle).
Still need to work on doing all the cooking beforehand to make time to actually sit at the table.
