I'm not saying I've made this all together yet, but I'm dreaming of it...
Drinks:
Lightly sweetened lemon water
Add to 1/2 gallon water the juice of two lemons and 1/2 cup sugar.
Starter salad:
Cranberry grapefruit salad
2 cups FRESH cranberries cooked with 1 cup sugar and 1 cup water until berries burst, cool to luke warm then toss with 4 large grapefruits peeled and sectioned with membranes removed. Garnish with mint leaves.
Entrée:
Chicken and mushrooms
In 4-8 Tblsp BUTTER(add as needed) Sauté 2 minced shallots, 4 cups of fresh sliced mushrooms and 4 chicken breasts, cut into finger widths that have been shaken in a flour and salt coating.(1 cup flour, 1 tsp salt) Cook all together until chicken is golden, serve.
Side 1:
Wild rice with caramelized onions and cranberries
Side 2:
Sautéed spinach
sauté 4 cups FRESH spinach with 2 Tblsp BUTTER until spinach is wilted
Dessert:
Molten chocolate cake with sugar coated raspberries
- 1 cup unsalted butter or unsalted margarine*
- 8 ounces semisweet chocolate chips, or bars, cut into bite-size chunks
- 5 large eggs
- 1/2 cup sugar
- Pinch of salt
- 4 teaspoons flour (or matzo meal, ground in a blender to a fine powder)
- 8 extra-large paper muffin cups or ramekins (or use regular paper muffin cups, which will make 12 cakes)
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- Garnish:
- 1 (6 ounce) container raspberries, barely moistened and rolled in about
- 1/2 cup sugar right before serving
Directions
- Melt butter and chocolate in a medium heat-proof bowl over a saucepan of simmering water; remove from heat. Beat eggs, sugar and salt with a hand mixer in a medium bowl until sugar dissolves. Beat egg mixture into chocolate until smooth. Beat in flour or matzo meal until just combined. (Batter can be made a day ahead; return to room temperature an hour or so before baking.)
- Before serving dinner, adjust oven rack to middle position; heat oven to 450 degrees. Line a standard-size muffin tin (1/2 cup capacity) with 8 extra-large muffin papers (papers should extend above cups to facilitate removal). Spray muffin papers with vegetable cooking spray. Divide batter among muffin cups.
- Bake until batter puffs but center is not set, 8 to 10 minutes. Carefully lift cakes from tin and set on a work surface. Pull papers away from cakes and transfer cakes to dessert plates.
- Top each with sugared raspberries and serve
Seeing as most these dishes are made immediately before eating it would be a difficult dinner to pull off...
Do any of YOU have a list of fabulous dishes you would LOVE to put all together for a dream dinner?
(this does not include dishes you would choose because they are easy to make... the priority here is TASTE!)
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