Food, glorious food

[batskeets]

SO! Last night, daemonwise and I once again combined our powers for foodly success. We'd meant to do it a lot sooner than this, after having a good run at our first dinner gathering, but, uh, my schedule during March and April was sheer insanity.

Anyhoo, we finally got our ducks in a row enough to make another dinner happen, so marykae, _dilate_, veiravx came over, and Andrew joined us at the last-minute when our fourth guest dropped out. I was overly ambitious in the number of things I chose to make, due to wanting to try about a billion different recipes, so I was still cooking when most everyone got there. But, it was worth the wait.

The dinner spread consisted of:
Chicken with Tarragon Cream Sauce
Sweet Potato Bacon Cakes
Mixed Green Salad with Honey Caper Vinaigrette

AND, not shown in the picture (because it was in the oven at the time) was a dessert of daemonwise's own design, which was a baked apple concoction that involved Guiness and honey and I don't know what else. But oh, the deliciousness!

If we start doing this sort of thing more often, I may have to go buy some nice, matchy plates, or at least some decent serving platters. We just barely had enough plates available to serve everyone! But eh, entertaining is nice, and doing it on a smaller scale certainly makes me less manic than throwing a huge party does. I'm already pondering who will be on the guest list for our future rounds of cooking madness!

I have a busy weekend ahead, but it's busy in that good way. My mood has been all over the place this week, but good times are on the horizon. And the utterly perfect weather certainly isn't hurting anything. :)

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_dilate_/]

I was just given a bunch of plates. They aren't beautiful or anything but they match. Let me know if you want them.

[skeets.livejournal.com]

Oh, awesome! What do they look like? Not that it's a big deal; I'm just curious. :)

[katlyn.livejournal.com]

I have plates.

In fact, I have a full set of shit to cater large parties of over 50 people. So yah, I have plates. If you need 10, let me know.

[marykae.livejournal.com]

yayayay! Thanks!

[veiravx.livejournal.com]

I didn't get a chance to say thank you last night! I feel like such an ass. So, THANK YOU! It's a rare treat for me to get real food, especially real delicious food! :)

[skeets.livejournal.com]

No problem, I'm sorry I didn't get to say goodbye properly! I'm glad you could make it. :)

[moonchylde.livejournal.com]

Nifty foods! We need more plates at our place too. :)

Mr B was uncertain, but I thought I would check your schedule for tonight... sounded like there were a couple others for a 10pm or later showing of IM2. Feel free to give me a hollar on the super phone (txt okay too) five oh three, seven eight zero, four one three eight.

[daemonwise.livejournal.com]

This was so much fun, both times. And I wholeheartedly agree on the smaller-scale bit.

We definitely need to keep this up.

[skeets.livejournal.com]

YES, on all counts!

[bloodred37.livejournal.com]

awesome, that sounds delicious! I'd love to help cook some stuff too sometime too! (and I absolutely volunteer to eat, haha).

[madeofmeat.livejournal.com]

When Mike mentioned the sweet potato bacon cakes to me, my mind went into a nom loop for about a minute and a half.

[skeets.livejournal.com]

They were pretty damned awesome! You'll have to come over for the next dinner, since you couldn't make this one.

[madeofmeat.livejournal.com]

Mansquee!