By spacing out the preparations (one weekend for decorating, one weekend for grocery shopping and baking, one weeknight day for the last of cooking), I enjoyed the work even more than usual. Here's an pictorial survey of the menu:
On the left, you can see the cookies: chocolate orange hazelnut cookies, chocolate peppermint sandwiches, and madeleines. In the middle are the savories: in the blue bowl, a warm white bean dip, flavored with cumin and Monterrey jack (the closeup is below); baba ghanouj, the yummiest dish that I can't spell, and lemon cured olives.
The bread was the no-knead recipe I've written about before. I was flattered because most people thought it was store bought. (It's funny how that can be either a compliment or an insult.) The olives need a whole post themselves, but I'll save that for another day. Here are the happy guests, munching and chatting and looking fabulous like only physicists can look.
5 comments:
Glad to hear it was a success. Are you bringing home the leftovers? Especially the cookies? The teal/turquoise and yellow furniture are striking.
Mmmmm chocolate orange hazelnut sounds good. I didn't recognize the guy in the black sweater in the middle of the couch at first until I realized that he was missing the large joint of pig.
I-spy you are the owners of a Mondrian - photo 1, top right-hand corner!
wow, what a lovely party! Shoot, maybe I do need to get on this whole hosting thing.
It's nice to see the room in use! I see what you mean about it being all in the planning...
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