we had such a great evening. dan's been SLAVING away at his 2 final take-home exams but we still had some friends over for dinner tonight. was probably a great break for him--he's been locked in his office since noon, with barely a break (i finally made him take kayla for a very short walk before dinner). anyway, it was really great to hang out with pj & katy tonight and i was able to make an amazing dinner with many of our CSA goodies.
*salad of claytonia & spinach w/ pomegranate seeds, toasted pine nuts, salad turnips & champagne vinaigrette
*red wine braised roots over barley
*homemade pumpkin pie with rum-scented whipped cream--i roasted the pie pumpkin we got a few weeks ago and followed the JoC recipe with an all-butter crust and threw in a slug of appleton reserve rum and cinnamon when i was whipping the cream
i'm not a pumpkin pie fan, but apparently mine was good--dan said he could never go back to canned pumpkin and provided me with this analogy: it was like always eating the peanut butter you find in reese's peanut butter cups, then eating REAL peanut butter for the 1st time--you could never go back to eating the reese's peanut butter.
my only beef was that the crust was sog-o-rama--but apparently that's normal? i can't even tell you one time that i've ever had pumpkin pie so i wasn't prepared for taht. i didn't blind bake the crust but it said not to. maybe i will next time?
i was so excited too--my friend/coworker nicci has been using all the root vegetable recipes i developed for my last feature to use her bounty of roots she's been getting from her csa. i have been getting tons of roots as well, but haven't been using my recipes--not sure WHY i haven't, but pulling out that braise tonight was perfect--especially because i was cooking for a couple with one vegetarian and the other who wasn't eating cheese or spicy food (there went my trademark mexican night!) but i'm glad i had those contraints because dinner was delish!
and the company was even better :) we rocked out to hendrix, drank wine and enjoyed a good meal--to me, there isn't much better in life.
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