Seasons Greatings
So like I was saying….. I had myself a small little Christmas party over the weekend. It was a great success with good friends and of course good food. As always in these situations I made an over abundance of food. Thankfully we had more than enough wine to wash it all down with (5 bottles people really?!!!). Anyhow just to sum up some of the deliciousness that was on the table:
- 3 dips, roasted garlic hummus, baba ghanouj, and herded taziki (accompanied by your traditional spread of fresh veggies, chips and pitas!)
- roasted shrimp cocktail with a spicy cocktail sauce
- baked brie en croute with fig preserve
- asparagus wrapped in prosciutto
- pesto and sun dried tomato torta
- rosemary stuffed dates wrapped in bacon (courtesy of Bitchincamero, BTW love that name!)
- chicken satay bites
- fried risotto balled stuffed with cheese.
I think that is about it, I might have shoved a few more things on that table. I also made holiday martinis and a s***load of cookies and goodies.
The most popular goodie being a white chocolate bark with pistachios and cherries. I am not a big chocolate person; in fact I really don’t like it. But that doesn’t stop me from making things with it. However, I need my handy tester, M near by to make sure I am doing it right. The chocolate bark recipe though was so easy that I couldn’t mess it up even if I tried. All it consisted of was melting the chocolate over a double boiler then spreading it out on a parchment lined jelly roll pan. Then top liberally with sweet dried cherries and shelled pistachio nuts. Let set and then whack into pieces. I did have a little trouble getting it to set up nice but nothing the freezer couldn’t handle.
